Blues midfielder Exequiel Palacios looks set to add to his international caps overnight when Argentina host Bolivia in a friendly in Cordoba (KO 1am).

Palacios will become the first player with Town to have won a cap with the Albiceleste in the first of their three friendlies during this break.

Further matches with Burkina Faso and Benin in Buenos Aires follow on Saturday and Tuesday of next week respectively. The latter will see Lionel Messi join the squad to play his final game in international football.

Summer Blues signing Palacios, 27, has previously won 41 full caps for his country.

Elsewhere, Marcelino Nunez was an unused sub as Chile were beaten 4-2 by the US in St Louis overnight.

Academy defender Oliver Wilkinson is winning his second England U18s cap this morning having been named in the starting XI for the game against South Korea at the UEFA Friendship Cup in Switzerland (KO 10am, live on YouTube).

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