Evening all, and welcome to Northern Ireland v Slovakia!

Things are looking up for Hazza Maguire, who's headed England in front against Ireland. You can follow along here.

Skriniar knees McNair in the buttock, McNair goes down, and the ref gives Slovakia a free-kick. Excellent defending.

Nice from Satka, sprinting forward to dart a lovely little ball out to Mak, who dashes across the face of the NI defence before screwing a shot into Dallas and just past the post. Slovakia are by far the better team, with by far the better players; it really is that simple.

This is going exactly as Slovakia would like it to. NI have tested them in the air, but not created anything, and all the serious thrust sis coming when they counter, mainly with Pekarik down the right.

England-Ireland, Wales-USA and Serbia-Scotland are all goalless.

Dallas returns and NI have a corner ... which Rodak punches away really well.

Eeesh! Dallas hurts himself in a challenge with Kucka, perhaps in a clash if knees. He looks in pain and on the bench, McLoughlin is getting ready, but I'd expect him to carry on.

My system crashed, apologies - but we're back now.

McGinn crosses from the right and the ball drifts over towards the far top corner! But Rodak backpeddles and tips over for a corner.

GOAL! Northern Ireland 0-1 Slovakia (Kucka) The ball comes over from the left and Saville heads back to Evans, except Evans isn't there, having come closer to take a short one. This allows Kucka to screech onto the loose ball and though Evans gives chase, his only option is to foul and he daren't. So Kucka has a look, freezes the keeper, and passes inside the near post. That's a really calm finish, and NI are in huge trouble.

Pekarik ambushes Lewis and bundles through three challenges, taking himself from wide and outside the box to central and inside the box. But Dallas is there to clean up.

The game's lost a bit of impetus now, which will please Slovakia. They're moving it about, trying to draw NI out of position.

Slovakia take the heat out of things by knocking it about at the back, before Skriniar pings one out to Pekarik. Nothing comes of it, but this is basically how Slovakia want to play - from the back then out to the wings, unless Hamsik is in space.

Magennis wins a header; Lewis can't quite catch up with the flick on, but NI's attackers have Slovakia's defenders in the air.

Hamsik spreads to Pekarik, haring down the right, and he cuts back for Rusniak, inside the box. This is a half-chance, but he strikes across it and the ball flies over the bar.

Nice from NI, Peacock-Farrell humping downfield and Washington winning the header. Eventually the ball finds its way left to Saville, who might cross before Lewis does, nicely, and McNair, at the back post, heads wide.

The noise is great. Man, I've missed and miss this so much.

Decent start to proceedings, this.

NI win a corner down the right and McNair looks for Magennis, but Satka is up to clear.

Magennis darts in behind and Washington feeds him; he screws a shot across the face, but the flag goes up and a replay shows he went too early.

Duda was at Norwich last season and struggled - he's now at Koln, and looks a decent player, but he's not really got the pace to play on the shoulder. My guess is they'll look to play into and off him, which men dashing past at speed. Er, I think I've just explained what a false nine is.