Summary

  • Group H: Northern Ireland 0-1 Kazakhstan (result)

  • Abat Aimbetov scores 87th-minute goal for Kazakhstan

Live Reporting

Andy Gray

  1. HT: Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    Overall it's been very disappointing, we've had enough possession but just not enough quality balls into the box. We're also too slow getting forward and its been comfortable for their defence.

    I think Michael will make changes at the break and I certainly hope we up the tempo!

  2. It's gone a bit flat for NI after good start

    HT: Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Mark Sterling
    BBC Sport NI at Windsor Park

    Northern Ireland really should be going in a goal up at the break.

    Those headers from Craig Cathcart and George Saville were fine chances, even if both players had to stretch to get their head to the ball.

    The hosts looked really good in possession for the opening 20 minutes but they have been sloppy at times with the ball and could have fallen behind when Maxim Samorodov missed from close range.

    You wonder how soon it might be before Michael O'Neill looks to make changes. It might take that to reignite a home performance that has gone a bit flat.

  3. HALF-TIME

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Northern Ireland win a corner but it's easily cleared. Kazakhstan break and Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov lashes an effort well wide.

    That probably sums up the later stages of the first-half.

    A bright start which ground to a halt.

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan (HT)BBC Sport

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan (HT)

  4. Promising signs?

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    That's the style of play we want. Pass the ball forward quickly which makes it hard for the defenders to defend.

  5. CLOSE!

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    George Saville heads over from close range!

    Dion Charles is again involved out of the right and he sets it up to the back post after a bit of trickery.

    Saville couldn't get under it and it's over the bar. That long wait for his first international goal goes on.

  6. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Hume thinks he has won a free-kick in the Kazakhstan half but it's not given.

    The visitors break but Ramazan Orazov is so far offside he's almost out of the ground.

    Nothing else to report.

  7. Charles the key man?

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    Shea Charles has been our best player. If it was me, I'd be giving the ball to him at every opportunity and be trying to play off him.

  8. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Elsewhere in Group H, Slovenia have taken the lead against Denmark.

    Another twist in this group!

  9. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    It's all gone a bit flat.

    Trai Hume clatters into a tackle to try and lift things.

  10. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    The game is being played at a walking pace!

  11. Too early to get edgy?

    Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Mark Sterling
    BBC Sport NI at Windsor Park

    Northern Ireland's tempo has just dropped here in the last few minutes.

    Paddy McNair and Craig Cathcart have both lost the ball when an early pass was on.

    That sloppiness has just given the visitors a little sniff of an opening and it's something Michael O'Neill will be determined for his side to cut out.

    Thirty-five minutes gone. It's too early to get edgy isn't it?

  12. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    No, no they can't.

  13. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Ramazan Orazov wins a free-kick off Cathcart deep in the Northern Ireland half.

    Can the visitors fashion a chance?

  14. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Northern Ireland have had just shy of 60% possession. Honestly, it's felt like more than that.

    Still no clear-cut chance from open play, however. Just Craig Cathcart's big miss from a corner.

  15. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    Kazakhstan are trying to slow the game down as much as possible. That's understandable because possession-wise they're getting a lesson here.

  16. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    The visiting defence are doing their best to give Northern Ireland an opening but the hosts can't make the breakthrough.

    Isaac Price of Northern Ireland runs with the ball whilst under pressure from Nuraly Alip of KazakhstanGetty Images

    Isaac Price of Northern Ireland runs with the ball whilst under pressure from Nuraly Alip of Kazakhstan

  17. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Northern Ireland come again.

    Prince lobs in a high delivery and Ali McCann, nowhere near as big as the visiting defenders, manages to get his head on the ball but Igor Shatsky plucks it out of the air.

  18. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Mark Sterling
    BBC Sport NI at Windsor Park

    The Kazakhstan half of the pitch is mostly covered in the south Belfast evening sunshine.

    Behind the goal in the opposite half, the Kop are working their way through their tracklist.

    It's not the loudest Windsor has ever been, but it's a decent noise all the same.

  19. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    Askhat Tagybergen has a go from 40 or 50 yards but it's well, well wide.

    Bailey Peacock-Farrell could have had time for a cup of tea before jogging over to get the ball. Wild stuff.

  20. Northern Ireland 0-0 Kazakhstan

    John O'Neill
    Former Northern Ireland defender on BBC Radio Ulster

    I don't believe he's missed that!

    That's as bad of a miss as the Kazakhstan one earlier. All he has to do is get that on target as the keeper is beaten!