Midfielder Yaser Asprilla will not be available for Watford’s final game of the season on Monday after the club allowed him to go to Colombia ahead of the Under-20 World Cup later this month.

Asprilla will miss the game against Stoke City at Vicarage Road having already flown out to Colombia this week. He will link up with the rest of the Under-20 squad in Bogota at the weekend, and then head to Argentina for the tournament which starts on May 20.

Forward Matheus Martins has been absent in recent weeks as he has played for Brazil Under-20s in warm-up games for the tournament.

He will also not feature on Monday as he has stayed with the Brazil squad and will prepare for the finals.

Colombia are in Group C along with Senegal, Japan and Israel, while Brazil are in Group D where they will face Italy, Nigeria and Dominican Republic. England’s Under-20s are in Group E with Uruguay, Iraq and Tunisia.

Coverage of the tournament in the UK will be exclusively on Eurosport.

Asprilla, 19, moved to England in the summer from Colombia and has been involved in the first team for most of the campaign.

With 14 starts and a further 23 outings from the bench this season, he is one of the top outfield appearance makers of the Championship campaign.

Only Ken Sema (39) and Ismaila Sarr (38) have made more appearances than Asprilla’s 37, but when Asprilla’s outings in both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup are added in, his 39 appearances in all competitions put him second behind Sema on 40.

Asprilla’s 23 league appearances as a substitute is comfortably the highest among the Watford squad this season, with Vakoun Bayo’s 15 the next in the list.

Indeed, Asprilla’s 23 league appearances from the bench is the highest figure recorded by a Watford player since Al Bangura made 24 in the 2005/06 season.