Injury fear for midfielder

Nir Biton is at the centre of an injury scare tonight after picking up an knock during Israel’s 3-1 defeat from Slovakia.

The midfielder was substituted after 66 minutes with some reports claiming that he had picked up a torn thigh muscle.

Hen Ezra replaced Biton with Slovakia winning 1-0 at the time, former Celt Rami Gershon was also in the Israel side.

Biton joined Celtic in August 2013 from FC Ashdod and after a short time at the club started to make an impact with his composed, disciplined midfield play.

In recent weeks his partnership with Stefan Johansen has showed signs of promise but with news of an injury on international duty Neil Lennon faces an anxious wait over the midfielder.

Celtic’s next match is in nine days time when they travel to Rugby Park to face Kilmarnock. With no fixture this weekend Lennon has given his squad the weekend off with the bulk of the players away on international duty.

Charlie Mulgrew and Scott Brown were in Gordon Strachan’s starting XI for Scotland’s friendly away to Poland with Leigh Griffiths on the bench. Brown gave Scotland the win with a shot in the 77th minute.

In Dublin Anthony Stokes was an unused substitute as Ireland lost 2-1 to Serbia, the first defeat of Martin O’Neill’s reign.

Aiden McGeady was in the starting XI for Ireland with former Celt Daryl Murphy replacing goalscorer Shane Long with 19 minutes left to play. At Wembley Morten Rasmussen was a second half substitute as Denmark lost 1-0 to England.

At u-21 level loan Celt Callum McGregor scored for Scotland in their 202 draw with Hungry at Tannadice.