Alex Pearce played the full 90 minutes for Scotland's under 21s in their 3-1 defeat against Northern Ireland on Tuesday night.

The central defender was one of only four Scots to last the full game, which saw Scotland take an early lead through Jamie Murphy, but Northern Ireland recovered to win through goals from Josh McQuoid (2) and Andrew Little.

Alex is currently on loan at Southampton, but won't be eligible to play in their side that travels to Madejski Stadium on Saturday.

In other international action, Kevin Doyle will start for Ireland tonight in their home friendly meeting with Poland tonight, but Stephen Hunt, Noel Hunt and Shane Long are all on the bench.

Adam Federici is in the Australia squad for their World Cup qualifying trip to Bahrain.

Marek Matejovsky misses out on the Czech Republic's trip to San Marino and Andre Bikey has pulled out of the Cameroon squad for a friendly with South Africa due to a minor groin injury.