Fellow play-off challengers Plymouth Argyle will be without midfielder Panutche Camara and striker Luke Jephcott when they travel to Portman Road to face the Blues on Saturday 26th March due to international calls.

Camara (pictured above) will be with the Guinea-Bissau squad and Jephcott with the Wales U21s.

In addition to the Town match, they’ll also miss a game against Cheltenham a few days earlier.

Argyle are currently sixth, three points and three places above the Blues having played two fewer matches.

“We will deal with it, we have dealt with it before. I'm sure we will cope. It's part and parcel of football,” Pilgrims manager Steven Schumacher told his club’s official website.

“When you have got international players in your squad because they are good footballers then occasionally you understand that you might lose them. Unfortunately, we might lose both of them.”

League One clubs have to fulfil fixtures unless they have three players called up to international squads.

Bersant Celina is the most likely member of the Town squad to be called up with Kosovo in friendly action against Burkina Faso and Switzerland, however, for their last fixture in November the forward requested that the Kosovan FA allowed him to remain with the Blues and same could be the case this time around.

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Fatboy added 06:54 - Mar 11 Plymouth are in a good position but as well as us they also still have to play Bolton, Portsmouth, Oxford, Wycombe, Sunderland, Wigan and MK Dons.
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Monkey_Blue added 08:35 - Mar 11 It's a “6 pointer” so any advantage is good news. However given the date of the fixture the importance might have risen or fallen for either team. You can't worry about it because I'm sure Plymouth and us will be putting out a good XI
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VanDusen added 13:53 - Mar 11 They'd better not get another and call it off. I'd prioritised this over the England game at Wembley naturally, with that in reserve - but now that's Sold Out. Sort it out FA/EFL - please don't schedule England and league games on the same day: it's not rocket science.
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