Blackburn Rovers have five senior players away on international duty over the next fortnight.
Supporters will have their fingers crossed that each comes back unscathed, with the East Lancs derby looming large.
Andir Gudjohnsen is central to their hopes of a positive result at Turf Moor. The striker has netted 13 goals in all competitions for club and country this season.
Two of those were for Iceland during the last international break and he will again fly off for their fixtures. They play Bulgaria and Luxembourg in Nations League matches on Friday and then Monday.
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Balazs Toth and Kristi Montgomery are also in the senior squads for Hungary and Scotland, respectively. It is the second time that the latter has been included in the senior squad and he'll be hoping for his debut.
North Macedonia and Switzerland await Scotland in their final group games. That is again a Friday/Monday split, allowing plenty of time to return to Lancashire before Sunday's big fixture.
Toth will return slightly later, with Marco Rossi's side facing Georgia first up on Saturday 14th November, before Hungary welcome Northern Ireland to Budapest three days later on Tuesday 17th November.
That will see the goalkeeper face his Rovers team-mate for a second time, with Tom Atcheson in Michael O'Neill's squad once again.
Finally, Augustus Kargbo's return to fitness has seen him recalled by Sierra Leon for their Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The first game takes place in DR Congo on Thursday before the reverse fixture in Morocco on Tuesday, November 17th.
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