As Wanderers and Burnley go head-to-head, MARC HIGGINSON previews the game's biggest individual battle, between midfield lynchpins Per Frandsen and Kevin Ball. When Wanderers ran out to face Burnley, there were many individual battles all over the park that will contribute to the final result.

But none will be more important than in the midfield, where Per Frandsen and Kevin Ball will battle it out for supremacy.

Both teams will rely on the industrious talents of Frandsen and Ball as they attempt to reach the promised land of the Premiership, a place where both players have visited before.

Frandsen was an integral part of Wanderers' last Premiership team and Ball played in the Premiership with Sunderland and both players will ensure there will be plenty of bite in the game's engine room.

Ball is renowned as being a no-nonsense, tough-tackling midfielder, with Frandsen known as a box-to-box player who has the ability to score crucial goals and both players are making differing debuts for their sides.

Ball was signed from Fulham on a free transfer, with Frandsen making a second debut for Bolton after returning from Blackburn in a £1.6m deal.

With both players aiming to impress their new managers, there will be a catalogue of hard challenges, with both players backing themselves for 50-50's. Whatever happens, they will play hard but they are also known to be fair.