Tiarnan O'Connor has been busy early on as he beats Sidney Lima to a loose ball but overhits his pass to Dan Bent.

We're back underway in Torshavn with Kyle McClean replacing Jamie Mulgrew in midfield for Linfield.

We are underway on Warden Street and the visitors have made a late change to their line-up. In comes Brenner for Miguel Pires as they kick off playing left to right on Swedish official Adam Ladeback's whistle

Larne goalkeeper Rohan Ferguson believes his team's primary objective is to keep their Uefa Conference League third-round tie alive against Portugal's Santa Clara after tonight's first leg at the Ballymena Showgrounds.

The Invermen negotiated the first two rounds of qualifying in penalty shootouts, but face a significant step up in class against a side that finished fifth in Portugal's top flight last season.

Larne reached the league phase last season and have ambitions of repeating that run, but have a huge test on their hands against the club from the Azores.

Nathan Rooney's side have played their home games in Ballymena due to their home pitch at Inver Park not meeting the required standards, but in their 'home' games against Auda and Prishtina, they kept clean sheets which Ferguson acknowledged is "a bit strange as it's not our home pitch".

Holding Santa Clara scoreless on Thursday would give them plenty to play for ahead of next week's return leg.

"It's another massive test," said Ferguson.

"We know they're a good side and have done the analysis on them. We want to get out to Portugal with something to play for.

"We want to enjoy Europe and hopefully get through to the next round, which will be hard. We've been underdogs the past two rounds but that suits us going into this one, [we're] not expected to win."

Read more from Ferguson here.

Image source, Pacemaker Press

Just the one change made by Nathan Rooney from last week's penalty shootout win in Kosovo. That sees Tiarnan O'Connor start for the first time in this European run in place of the suspended Paul O'Neill.

Vasco Matos also makes the one change from their comeback win over Croatian outfit Varazdin. That sees Miguel Pires come into midfield in place of Lucas Soares.

Larne: Ferguson, Donnelly, Gallagher, McKendry, Randall, O'Connor, Graham, Nolan, Cosgrove (C), Sloan, Bent.

Subs: Collett, Graham, Ridley, Magee, Kee, Moore, Lusty, Devlin, Wallace, Simpson.

Santa Clara: Batista (C), M. Pereira, Adriano, G. Silva, Rocha, Pires, Venancio, Lima, W. Silva, Serginho, Lopes.

Subs: Neneca, Afonso, Pacheco, Ferreira, Brenner, Costa, Nunes, Victor, H. Pereira.

Larne have twice come through on penalties in their qualifiers with the spot-kick success against Prishtina following another shootout win against FK Auda.

Nathan Rooney's side now face Portugal's CD Santa Clara, with the first leg at the Ballymena Showgrounds before the return leg away next week.

The club from Ponta Delgada - the largest city in the Azores Islands - does have the distinction of being the most westerly team to compete in European competition and first from the Azores, but they have so much more about them than geography.

Following promotion from Portugal's second division in the 2023/24 season, Santa Clara enjoyed a solid campaign in the top flight last season with a fifth-place finish securing European football.

They enjoyed a 3-2 aggregate win against Croatia's NK Varazdin to move into this third-round tie, coming back from a 2-1 deficit after the first leg as Vinicius Lopes and Gabriel Silva scored the goals to see them home.

This is not the club's first experience of European football as they made it as far as the Conference League play-off round in 2021, only to be pipped to a place in the group stage by Serbia's Partizan.

The winners of this tie will face either Shamrock Rovers or Ballkani from Kosova for a place in the group phase.

Image source, Inpho

After a minute of stoppage time, the first period comes to close.

It was on opening half which burst into life with two goals inside the opening 10 minutes.

If anything, David Healy might well be the slightly less happy of the two managers - he might well feel a bit disappointed that the Irish League champions aren't ahead, having created the lion's share of the chances in that first 45 minutes.

A rare sight of goal for the home side as Solvi Vatnhamar's corner is met with a firm header by defender Ari Olsen whose effort is looping towards goal until Chris Johns claws the ball behind for a corner.

Another Linfield attack as Jamie Mulgrew threads a pass into the path of Matthew Fitzpatrick but his shot ends up in virtually the same spot as Millar's a few minutes earlier.

Brilliant work on the right hand side from Ethan McGee whose cross then deflects to the back post where Kirk Millar hits his volley down into the ground and wide of the target.

Half-hearted Vikingur appeals for a penalty as Jakup Johansen collides with Ben Hall as the pair race into the penalty area in pursuit of a through ball.

The Bosnian referee immediately crosses his arms to indicate no offence has been committed.

Another good chance for Linfield, owing to a piece of individual skill from Kieran Offord, who sets off on a strong run and ghosts past defender Arnbjorn Svensson before getting a fierce strike away from inside the penalty area.

The effort is on target at the near post but keeper Armgrimsson is well positioned to beat the ball away before it is eventually cleared.

Linfield are bombarding the Vikingur rearguard with a series of angled crosses - particularly from the right hand side - but the home side are standing firm.

Jamie Mulgrew is alert to dispossess defender Ingi Jonhardsson inside the Vikingur penalty area and he then lashes the ball at pace across the face of goal but there are no Linfield players able to take advantage and the home side clear the danger.

David Healy will be delighted with his players' response to that early setback.

Linfield have been the dominant team since and have kept up the momentum after that Matthew Fitzpatrick equaliser.

Linfield might well be ahead as a cross from the left drifts to the back post where Ethan McGee cuts back inside onto his left foot but keeper Armgrimsson is quickly off his line to block.

Linfield's tails are up after that equaliser and Kieran Offord tries his luck from 25 yards with a strike which keeper Armgrimsson tips over the crossbar.

Bosnian referee Luka Bilbija blows his whistle to start the action on a drizzly evening in Torshavn.

Can Linfield secure a positive result to take into next week’s second leg at Windsor Park?