Peterborough United loanee in action for Ireland again and why Posh will probably play in the next international break

Curtis, who is on loan at Posh from Sheffield United, scored the winning goal in a 1-0 success in Turkey on Friday to boost his country’s chances of qualifying for the European Championship Finals. But those hopes subsided when Ireland were held to a 2-2 draw by Latvia in Dublin on Tuesday. Curtis again played the full 90 minutes even though he picked up a caution in the first-half.

Ireland now look unlikely to qualify automatically for the finals in a group being led by Italy. They will now compete for a play-off place along with Norway.

Curtis is only 18, but has now won 12 Under 21 caps for his country.

Peterborough United captain Hector Kyprianou won his 10th senior Cyprus cap on Monday.

The 23 year-old started the Nations League game against Kosovo in Larnaca as a centre-back, but was substituted at half-time with Cyprus 2-0 down. Kosovo eventually won 4-0. Cyprus had won 1-0 in Lithuania on Friday when Kyprianou was also substituted at half-time. They were tactical rather than international substitutions.

Summer Posh signing George Nevett started on the bench as Wales Under 19s beat Azerbaijan 3-0 in a friendly in Spain on Monday, but came on for the final 20 minutes. Nevett started and played 90 minutes of Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Turkmenistan, also in Spain.

The next international weekend is October 12/13. Posh currently expect their home League One match with Rotherham United to go ahead on the Saturday. The Millers had no international call-ups for the current batch of matches and played out a 1-1 draw at Charlton Athletic.

Posh will probably lose Kyprianou and Curtis to international call-ups, but clubs need three players to be away to be able to call a game off. Nevett does not currently count as he has not played in 25% of Posh first-team matches.