New signing Sindre Walle Egeli is among the players who will be absent from Portman Road over the next fortnight on international duty.

The 19-year-old forward is with the Norway U21s for their friendly in Denmark on Thursday and European Championship qualifier at home to Slovenia on next Tuesday.

Town have comparatively few players away during this break but with five away with the Republic of Ireland for their World Cup qualifiers, skipper Dara O’Shea, Jack Taylor, Chieo Ogbene, Sammie Szmodics and new signing Kasey McAteer.

Ireland host Hungary at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday, then travel to take on Armenia in Yerevan on the Tuesday.

George Hirst is with the Scotland squad for their World Cup qualifiers against Denmark and Belarus.

Steve Clarke’s side face the Danes in Copenhagen this Friday and Belarus in Zalaegerszeg on the following Monday.

In addition, development squad forward Josh Pitts is with the Maltese U21s squad ahead of their opening European Championship qualifier at home to Greece on Tuesday 9th September.

Young central defender Jacob Mazionis, who is on loan at Cheltenham in League Two, is with the Lithuania U21s for European Championship qualifiers against Ukraine on Friday and Hungary on the Tuesday, both at home.

Elsewhere, on-loan keeper Aro Muric is in the Kosovo squad for their World Cup qualifiers away in Switzerland on Friday and at home to Sweden three days later.

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Cookieboy added 10:40 - Sep 1 How many will come back with injuries to put a spanner in the works
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MickMillsTash added 10:43 - Sep 1 Zalaegerszeg is in western Hungary near the Austrian border, But do the Jocks travel by Flixbus to away games? Sky TV should not show games on a Friday after the international break
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WeWereZombies added 11:21 - Sep 1 The Denmark vs Scotland game is live on BBC Scotland (Sportscene) Friday evening https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j0wz with the Belarus game on BBC One Scotland.
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Bert added 11:22 - Sep 1 After watching Derby on Saturday he must be wondering if all opposition teams consist of time wasters, bullies and con merchants……. not to mention refs who fail to act when they should.
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d77sgw added 12:13 - Sep 1 I hear you Bert...but Derby really was exceptional, largely because the ref failed to get a grip early on. I'm with McKenna - I've never seen a game like it, with such sh*thousery from the opposition from the off. We really should have buried Derby, and if Hurst got the pen he deserved, or had finished off the biggest chance of the game (he really had a shocker on Saturday), we would have done. I suspect Egeli's thoughts coming away from the game was, I can do a job here...

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baxterbasics added 12:44 - Sep 1 Really could do without losing Egeli already, needs time with the squad. Fingers crossed no injuries...
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JewellintheTown added 13:44 - Sep 1 Playing with international class players and opposition will do him the world of good with his confidence. Same goes for all the players away. Just hope they all come back unscathed and match fitter.
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StowTractor added 13:46 - Sep 1 d77sgw So you didnt come to PR to watch us play Cheltenham or Fleetwood in League One then? My thoughts at the game is Derby probably did to us what most L1 teams did to them in their promotion season 2 years ago.
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trncbluearmy added 14:24 - Sep 1 Shane we can't use these couple of weeks to ease him in Time for a quick sore throat me thinks
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Burley4ever added 15:07 - Sep 1 Hopefully he will be a non playing sub.
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bluesissy added 19:05 - Sep 1 If he's away on international duty then no doubt when he's back km will wrap him up in a cocoon and put him away until after Xmas.
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ArnieM added 19:37 - Sep 1 Not much team bonding going to happen in this international break, with over half the squad away , is there!
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