Long trip for sore Socceroo Scott McDonald

CELTIC hot shot Scott McDonald finished Socceroo training last night with his right foot in an icepack.

But the striker is set to partner Josh Kennedy in a Victorian-dominated attack in tomorrow night's World Cup qualifier against Qatar.

"I got kicked. You get that in Scottish football. But it's not much, I'll be right," said McDonald, who scored twice in Celtic's 5-1 Scottish Cup victory at Kilmarnock on Sunday.

McDonald arrived in Melbourne from London early yesterday with Kennedy, Lucas Neill and David Carney. They joined Luke Wilkshire, who had arrived a few hours earlier on a flight from Germany.

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