Mick McCarthy says he's concerned about the lack of first-team football for some of his players and he plans to delay naming his final panel for the double header against Switzerland and Bulgaria to see how his squad members are faring.

And the Ireland boss also stated that he's "monitoring" the fitness of teenager Troy Parrott, who picked up an injury while playing for Tottenham's U23 side last week.

Switzerland visit Dublin in just 13 days' time for a key Euro 2020 qualifier but McCarthy admits there is a worry over the fact that some players have yet to play.

Senior men like Shane Long, Jeff Hendrick and Robbie Brady are yet to feature this season while Ciaran Clark and Kevin Long are also unused by their clubs. Hendrick's only outing for Burnley was in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Fylde last week.

"Our main concern at the moment is still about players getting games but Darren Randolph and Keiren Westwood are playing well, the four Sheffield United players are all starting as is Scott Hogan while Robbie Brady is still recovering from his rib injury," McCarthy told fai.ie.

"I'll probably see where we are after the League Cup games next week before making a final decision on the squad for Switzerland and after that, we can always add players from the provisional squad for the Bulgaria game.

"Jeff [Hendrick] needs to get game time into his legs so it was great he played in the [Fylde] game on Wednesday.

"I have no doubts about Jeff's ability or his fitness, he has covered so much ground for us in this European Championship already as the stats prove, but like all our players, he needs to play.

"He might feature against Wolves in the Premier League on Saturday and Jeff should be involved in the League Cup game at home to Sunderland next Wednesday night which we will have scouted. I might just delay naming the final squad until after those League Cup games on Tuesday and Wednesday night to see how our players get on."

On Parrott, McCarthy said: "Troy got a dead leg in that match and we are in touch with the medical team at Spurs to see how he is doing. He is still a doubt for their Under-23 match against Derby at Enfield on Friday afternoon but Terry Connor is going to the game."

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