<div class="byline" id="ds-byline">By Simon Meeks</div><div class="ds-bylinetext" id="ds-bylinetext">Barnsley</div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">BARNSLEY defender Stephen Foster has suffered a broken nose. The ex-Crewe centre-half, now established at right-back for manager Simon Davey's team, suffered the injury in Saturday's derby defeat at Sheffield United but played through the pain and finished the game. </div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Davey explained: "We had a doctor on the bench who was able to put it back in place. "He was smelling around corners for about five minutes in the game. We'll have to look at him over the next couple of days." Foster was led from the pitch with blood streaming from his nose. He could now miss Saturday's final match before Christmas at Bristol City. Foster was not the only casualty in the Barnsley team. Davey revealed that his skipper and top scorer, Brian Howard, had played with five stitches in a shin wound. The gash was sustained seven days earlier in the 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace at Oakwell. Davey gave a debut on Saturday to Du <div id="ds-mpu"></div>tch defender Marciano van Homoet. He played in place of the suspended Dominik Werling and injured Rob Kozluk. Said Davey: "Van Homoet did very well. He's come into the side playing on the left-hand side when he's a right-back. I thought he defended very, very well. For his debut, it was very, very good. "It was Sheffield United in a local derby. It could have gone one way or the other. I'm really pleased with him." Davey defended the performance at Bramall Lane. "We're not that far away from good things. We've given a goal away from a free-kick which wasn't a free-kick in the first place," he said. "We've come to a side like Sheffield United, who were in the Premiership last year, and acquitted ourselves well. We could have had something out of the game. We've done that at a lot of clubs this season. "There's a fine line between us getting something and not getting something." </div> <div class="premiumoff" id="divWordCount">The full article contains 329 words and appears in n/a newspaper.</div>