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Everton have requested James McCarthy undergoes a scan on a minor knee injury, says Republic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill.

The Blues midfielder suffered a slight knock in training ahead of his country’s Euro 2016 qualifiers with Gibraltar and Georgia.

McCarthy is said to be relaxed about the problem but O’Neill says the Blues wanted to make sure the injury was not serious and so asked for tests to be carried out.

“I was speaking to Alan (Byrne, Irish team doctor) and more importantly the player (McCarthy), and the player’s not too concerned, so that’s OK,” said O’Neill.

“I think it’s something Everton wanted to do so, fine, we’ll fall into line and go with it.

“I can’t envisage a problem at the moment. If it is, it might not be anything to do with the scan - obviously your concern would be training, like something that happened with Jeff (Hendrick) today.

"I think Jeff hopes he will be okay himself but those would be the things that concern me in the next couple of days of training.”