The fourth official has signalled two minutes of additional time at the end of the first half.

HJK break quickly with Topi Keskinen bursting away from Shaun Want but Craig Farquhar covers the ground to make a timely intervention.

That will do the European debutant's confidence no harm at all.

An injury blow for Larne as defender Cian Bolger is unable to continue and he is replaced by Craig Farquhar.

Summer signing Farquhar didn't make his first senior appearance for Ballymena United until February of this year and here he is playing in the Champions League.

Bojan Radulovic's downward header forces a sharp low save from Rohan Ferguson.

The assistant referee immediately raises his flag but neither goalkeeper nor striker could have known that seconds before.

Andy Ryan chases a Shaun Want through ball and gets in behind the HJK defence before going down after tangling with defender Miro Tenho.

Neither the referee nor his assistant flinch, though.

Micheal Glynn crosses from the left and HJK keeper Dejan Iliev comes to collect the ball but Lee Bonis flicks the ball towards goal.

Not on target, unfortunately, from Larne's point of view.

Leroy Millar crosses from his left and Andy Ryan throws himself at the ball with a diving header but he has to manufacture both power and direction and the effort goes wide of the near post.

Larne are starting to warm to the task now, though.

Shea Gordon threads a pass into the path of Dylan Sloan on the right had side of the penalty area but his low cross agonisingly evades everyone in the middle.

Groans all round followed by applause from the home fans.

It's all been a bit frantic on the opening quarter of an hour.

Larne need someone to put their foot on the ball and control possession and they will feel they have the firepower to trouble the Finns.

HJK are knocking the ball around confidently but they are getting no change so far from a disciplined Larne side.

Anthony Olusanya bursts into the Larne penalty area but just as he shoots, Aaron Donnelly covers the ground to make a very timely block for the home side.

It's a lively surface at Solitude which has already had defenders on both sides scurrying to clear their lines.

Larne keeper Rohan Ferguson has been alert on a couple of occasions to dash off his line to collect through balls.

Almost early drama as HJK keeper Dejan Iliev nonchalently attempts to play a back-pass out to a team-mate only for the alert Andy Ryan to intercept it.

The goalkeeper breathes a huge sigh of relief as the ball ricochets back into his grasp.

Larne's opponents HJK have a new manager in the dugout in north Belfast this evening as Toni Koskela was dismissed shortly after the victory to be replaced by his assistant Toni Korkeakunnas.

Will they have the new manager bounce or can Larne capitalise on a period of transition for the visitors?

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Greek referee Aristotelis Diamantopolous gets the action underway at Solitude.

With a name as lengthy as that one, let's hope he has a quiet game!

Larne boss Tiernan Lynch gives the ultimate thumbs-up to the team who performed so superbly in FInland last week by naming an unchanged starting line-up.

New boss Toni Korkeakunnas rings the changes for HJK Helsinki, though, with five new faces from the first leg as Dejan Iliev, Tuomas Ollila, Joona Toivio, Gergios Kanellopolous and Anthony Olusanya all start.

Larne: Ferguson, Cosgrove, Want, Bolger, Donnelly, Glynn, Bolger, Sloan, Millar, Bonis, Ryan.

Subs: Dowling, Omar, Farquhar, Thomson, Kearns, O'Neill,Westendorf, Maguire, Smith.

HJK Helsinki: Iliev, Ollila, Toivio, Radulovic, Lingman, Tenho, Kekinen, Raitala, Soiri, Kanellopolous, Olusanya.

Subs: Ost, Riski, Kouassivi-Benissan, Tanaka, Toivonen, Moller, Boamah.

It may not be their traditional home surroundings of Inver Park but that hasn't stopped the Larne fans making a proper noise as they embrace their first ever 'home' Champions League tie.

It's a terrific atmosphere at Solitude - let's hope Tiernan Lynch's side can give them plenty more to shout about.

Larne have continued to strengthen in the transfer window, bringing in left-back Levi Ives from Cliftonville for an undisclosed fee.

The defender is ineligible this evening, but Ives is "looking forward to the full-time aspect of the move."

Read more on the transfer here

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Larne captain Tomas Cosgrove still believes that the Inver side can overturn the one goal deficit this evening at Solitude and reach the second round of Champions League qualifying.

Read more of his thoughts here

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