Coach John Eustace will join up with the Ireland squad in Yerevan in the early hours of tomorrow morning after putting his honeymoon on hold.
The Englishman - who succeeded Anthony Barry on Stephen Kenny’s first-team staff - missed the squad’s training sessions in Dublin on Monday and Tuesday.
He got married in the Cotswolds yesterday, but is flying here to the Armenian capital overnight ahead of Saturday’s opening Nations League game.
“He will be here later on,” said Ireland boss Kenny today in a sweltering Yerevan with temperatures well into the 30s.
“When he was appointed, he said the one problem he had was that his wedding was on and that he had it all booked.
“I said that’s fine. He was there for the first three days in Dublin, he just got a couple of days [off], and he is coming in later.”
Meanwhile, Kenny was impressed with Ukraine’s ruthless 3-1 dismantling of Scotland in last night’s World Cup playoff semi-final.
He watched the game in full this morning from the team hotel in the Armenian capital - but insists he cannot lose sight of Saturday’s game first.
After the Armenia clash, Ireland will host Ukraine in the Nations League on Wednesday before facing Scotland at Aviva Stadium on Saturday week.
Ireland then travel to the Polish city of Lodz to face Ukraine in the ‘away’ game.
Kenny said: “Ukraine were excellent in the game, really impressive, weren’t they. We knew that as we have watched a lot of their games, very good.
“They have a lot of really good, technical players. They changed their midfield three and they’ve got a lot of really good midfield players.
“Yaremchuk is a really good centre forward. Scotland probably didn’t play to their full potential last night, and Ukraine deserved to win overall.
“But to be honest we really have to just focus on Armenia.
“Away from home, Armenia’s results have been up and down, but they have had some good home wins here against Iceland and Romania, two good teams.
“They won a group with Georgia and North Macedonia to qualify, so you have to respect that. This is the game we are fully focused on.”
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