Anis Mehmeti and Exequiel Palacios are set to add to their international caps later today.

Mehmeti’s Albania are in Nations League action in Finland this afternoon (KO 2pm) sitting top of their group having won their opening two matches, the Blues forward, who has won seven caps, having started and scored his first international goal in Tuesday’s 3-0 victory in San Marino.

Palacios’s Argentina host Burkina Faso in a friendly in Buenos Aires overnight (KO 1pm, Amazon Prime) with the midfielder set to take his caps tally to 43.

Elsewhere, academy duo Alex Noonan and Chris Atherton are in the Republic of Ireland U19s side facing the hosts at the Slovenia Nations Cup this morning with keeper Noonan skippering the team coached by ex-Blues forward Noel Hunt. The game is under way and on YouTube here.

Young defender Oliver Wilkinson could win his third England U18s cap when the Young Lions face Spain in the final of the UEFA Friendship Cup in Switzerland this afternoon (KO 4pm).

The England youngsters won all three of their group games, Wilkinson starting the second two having been a late call into the squad, the Spanish also having had a 100 per cent record to reach the final.

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