Abdoulaye Meite has pulled out of Ivory Coast's international double-header against Mauritius and Madagascar after struggling to recover from a foot injury.

The Wanderers centre-back missed Saturday's defeat after failing a fitness test and will have treatment while 14 of his team-mates fly out to play for their countries.

Tal Ben Haim and Idan Tal (Israel), Stelios (Greece) and Jussi Jaaskelainen (Finland) are all involved in European Championship qualifiers, as is Lubomir Michalik (Slovakia), currently on loan at Leeds.

Ricardo Gardner (Jamaica), Abdoulaye Faye and El-Hadji Diouf (Senegal) and Andranik (Iran) are also on duty with their national teams while Ricardo Vaz Te (Portugal) currently on loan at Hull, Johann Smith (USA), on loan at Carlisle, and the Polish trio of Jaroslaw Fojut, Blazej Augustyn and Przemyslaw Kazimierczak, who is on loan at Accrington Stanley, all represent their countries at U21 or youth levels.