Boss Mick McCarthy is expecting Ainsley Maitland-Niles to be OK to make the trip to Rotherham on Saturday having limped off during Tuesday's 2-0 home victory over Bolton with a foot injury having scored the first goal, while the Town manager is also hopeful that a groin problem won’t force David McGoldrick out of the game against the bottom-of-the-table Millers.
"Ainsley reported in yesterday for treatment and it had settled down, there was no crack in it, he’s not broken and I’ve seen him this morning and he’s hopeful he’ll be OK for Saturday,” McCarthy said.
"Whatever he did it was something he couldn’t carry on with and he was worried about it, but he’s settling down and he should be OK for selection on Saturday. I hope so anyway.”
He says there are no new injuries, aside from McGoldrick, who felt the effects of an earlier problem this morning.
"Everybody’s fine except Didzy’s just pulled up in training,” he added. "He’d been suffering with a bit of a groin but I thought Brett Pitman deserved his opportunity so I picked him on Tuesday, there was no injury.
"But he had played two games having been out with a groin strain and he’s trained today and he’s just felt it. We’ll wait and see tomorrow, but hopefully he’ll be OK.”
The Blues boss says it’s still too soon for Teddy Bishop to be involved with the 19-year-old’s recovery from hamstring and shin splints problems being taken deliberately slowly.
"Teddy won’t be involved in this,” McCarthy continued. "He’ll wait until after the international break, there’s no point in forcing it now. We haven’t got a game for two weeks, so he’ll be hopefully ready to go then.”
Ryan Fraser (knee) remains sidelined, while Luke Hyam (also knee) and Luke Varney (achilles) are continuing their recoveries and could be involved with the U21s later this month.