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Another long-range effort from the Dutch. This time it is debutant Tyrell Malacia, but his drive is blocked.

The corner is played to Paul Pogba but his header is down the keeper's throat.

Corner to France now. West Ham's Kurt Zouma goes forward.

Memphis Depay is in the thick of this. He turns one way and then another before firing a tame shot off target from range.

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Almost a chance for Ukraine. Andriy Yarmalenko crosses and Viktor Tsygankov flicks a header on - but there was nobody behind him to flick onto.

First goal of the 19:45 BST games with Manor Solomon putting Israel 1-0 up against Austria.

Montenegro are not shy in coming forward. Quick passing sends a man in down the left but his pull-back is skewed wide by Drasko Bozovic.

Paul Pogba pings a ball into the box but Ukraine keeper Andriy Pyatov is off his line to gather.

It's his 99th cap for Ukraine after coming out of international retirement.

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Memphis Depay is sent spinning to turf by a late tackle. Very much the defender letting him know he is there.

A well-disguised pass by the forward soon after is close to giving Davy Klaassen a shot on goal but the midfielder's control lets him down.

Early chances for Ukraine. First of all Roman Yaremchuk is tackled in the box and then Andriy Yarmolenko shoots over the bar.

It is a tight old group that contains these two sides. Every result featuring the pocket of teams near the top matters.

Montenegro with an early attack but a cross from the right is just a bit too high for Stefan Mugosa.

We are under the way all across Europe.

Is there a more ominous sounding national anthem than the one for Montenegro? It should be accompanying Darth Vader going to check on what progress has been made on the Death Star.

National anthems galore as the 19:45 BST games near.

There is an opera singer in Kyiv blasting out the Ukraine anthem.

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France make six changes from their draw with Bosnia, at least two of them enforced - Jules Kounde is suspended and Kylian Mbappe is injured.

Ukraine: Pyatov, Matviyenko, Kryvtsov, Zabarnyi, Tymchyk, Stepanenko, Shaparenko, Mykolenko, Yarmolenko, Tsygankov, Yaremchuk. Subs: Sikan, Riznyk, Boyko, Malinovsky, Kacharaba, Syrota, Makarenko, Sydorchuk, Karavayev, Sobol, Korniyenko, Zubkov.

France: Lloris, Dubois, Zouma, Kimpembe, Digne, Coman, Tchouameni, Pogba, Rabiot, Griezmann, Martial. Subs: Veretout, Varane, Maignan, Diaby, Hernandez, Benzema, Lenglet, Mandanda, Guendouzi, Mukiele.

Louis van Gaal's second starting XI in his third spell as boss of the Netherlands includes a debut for Feyenoord full-back Tyrell Malacia.

Barcelona's Memphis Depay is part of a front three along with PSV's Cody Gakpo and Steven Berghuis of Ajax.

Georginio Wijnaldum, formerly of Liverpool, captains the side.

Netherlands: Bijlow, Dumfries, de Vrij, de Ligt, Malacia, Wijnaldum, de Jong, Klaassen, Berghuis, Depay, Gakpo.

Subs: van Dijk, Timber, Ake, Bergwijn, de Roon, Gravenberch, Krul, Til, Koopmeiners, Malen, Weghorst, Drommel.

Former Manchester City forward Stevan Jovetic has pulled out of the Montenegro squad due to injury, so Stefan Mugosa and Drasko Bozovic are paired up front.

Another ex-City player, Stefan Savic - now of Atletico Madrid - captains the team.

Montenegro: Sarkic, Vesovic, Savic, Tomasevic, Radunovic, Marusic, Scekic, Lagator, Osmajic, Bozovic, Mugosa.

Subs: Djurdjevic, Nikola Vukcevic, Vujnovic, Martinovic, Haksabanovic, Dragojevic, Raickovic, Beciraj, Mijatovic, Marko Vukcevic, Simic, Ivanovic.

Euro 2020 semi-finalists Denmark are looking good for a place at the World Cup.

They are five points clear at the top after four games.

The Faroes v Denmark is actually a Kingdom of Denmark derby. The islands are, like Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Denmark have won all four previous meetings (14-1 on aggregate).

Israel and Austria - who are joint on seven points behind Denmark - play each other.

Scotland, in fourth place, play Moldova.

France will hope to move one step closer to the World Cup with victory in Kiev.

This is 'acting head coach' Oleksandr Petrakov's first home game in charge of Ukraine. Andriy Shevchenko left after the Euros.

Didier Deschamps' France are three points clear at the top despite being held in two of the four games - in the opener against Ukraine and on Wednesday against Bosnia.

Finland beat Kazakhstan 1-0 in the early kick-off today to move up to second place.

Louis van Gaal is looking for the first win of his third spell as Netherlands boss.

The 70-year-old, who replaced Frank de Boer after Euro 2020, led the Dutch to a 1-1 draw against Norway on Wednesday.

“I think Montenegro have creative, skilful and smart players. They will make it difficult for us, just as Norway did. But we’ve trained for that,” Van Gaal said.

Group G is very close, with the top four - Turkey, the Netherlands, Montenegro and Norway - all separated by just one point.

Turkey play Gibraltar in the group's other game tonight.

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Right let's start building up to the late games. We'll bring you Irish reaction if we get it.