A long passing move by the Irish ends in a free-kick to the hosts.

Vitalii Mykolenko is booked for a foul.

James McClean's cross is cleared but is then returned into the box. Chiedozie Ogbene is offside as he heads the ball down to Shane Duffy, who air-kicks anyway.

James McClean finds Jason Knight, who is fouled near the corner flag. The big lads go up for the free-kick.

Ukraine bring on Oleksandr Karavaev and Oleksandr Pikhalyonok for Mykhailo Mudryk and Mykola Shaparenko.

Oh look at me, I'm Belgium and I can score goals. Leandro Trossard has just given them a 3-1 lead over Poland.

Triple change for the Irish. Michael Obafemi, Alan Browne and James McClean replace Callum Robinson, Enda Stevens and Cyrus Christie.

Hopefully this will inject some energy into the team.

Friday marks the three-year anniversary of Ireland's last competitive home win - 2-0 against Gibraltar.

A poor corner from Ireland and then Enda Stevens hooks a follow-up cross out of play.

*Sighs*

The Irish just need a lot more energy here. You'd think they might have the edge on Ukraine in that aspect with some of the away players not having played any football this year. But not at all.

This isn't very good at all. Ukraine have a corner.

Ireland were playing with 10 men there for a bit and Dara O'Shea now replaces the injured John Egan.

It's mostly Ukraine now. There haven't been many Irish attacks recently.

Irish defender John Egan is down injured now. He hurt himself while controlling the ball unchallenged near the side of the pitch.

Kevin de Bruyne has just given Belgium a 2-1 lead against Poland with a cool finish inside the box.

Ukraine shoot from the free-kick from range but it's a simple save for Caoimhin Kelleher, down the middle and low.

Irish midfielder Josh Cullen is booked for a bad foul on Serhii Sydorchuk and then takes about a minute to tie his laces.

If the Republic of Ireland don't turn this round, it will be 10 competitive home games without a win - a national record.

Ireland have a corner and Callum Robinson floats it in for Shane Duffy but his header is straight at the keeper.

Not far off 20% of Ireland's Nations League shots ever have been Duffy from set-pieces.

Wales trail the Netherlands 1-0 with Teun Koopmeiners scoring. Follow that one here.

The Irish are on the ropes now and Artem Dovbyk has a shot blocked inside the box.