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Lafferty works after injury scare

Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty only worked on an exercise bike during the opening stages of Wednesday's training session, having hobbled off with a groin problem on Tuesday.

The 28-year-old watched from a machine on a balcony as the rest of Michael O'Neill's squad went through drills at their base in Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, with Craig Cathcart joining that main group for the first time in France since suffering a back injury in Slovakia.

On Tuesday O'Neill had insisted there were "no major concerns" over Lafferty's fitness ahead of their Euro 2016 opener with Poland in Nice on Sunday, but he left the bike at the end of the section open to the media and walked back inside gingerly.

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