Three more minutes.

Sam Todd blocks Brandon Kavanagh's goalbound shot after a good run from Thomas Oluwa. Kavanagh scored nine goals in the First Division.

Max Murphy with another shooting chance. He hits it low and Mark McGinley gets down to save.

Darragh Nugent (in) - Ronan Finn (out) (Shamrock Rovers).

The Rovers II captain Darragh Nugent making his senior debut for the Hoops in the Premier Division.

Thomas Oluwa (in) - Aaron Greene (out) (Shamrock Rovers). Oluwa has just one sub appearance in the Premier Division this season. He came off the bench against Waterford back in Feburary.

Max Murphy (in) - Sean Kavanagh (out) (Shamrock Rovers). Murphy making his senior debut for Rovers. He played 15 games and scored two goals with Rovers II in the First Division.

Stephen Bradley is about to make his first change of the night. 

Ryan Connolly (Finn Harps) takes a corner-kick and he swings it in under the crossbar and Rovers clear again.

Barry and Tony McNamee link up and Adam Foley's corss comes into the box but hits the side netting.

Gareth Harkin (Finn Harps) is booked for his turn to foul Dylan Watts.

Kosovar Sadiki (Finn Harps) is booked for a heavy foul on Dylan Watts.

Some sustained pressure from Harps with the ball pinging around in the Rovers box.

Somehow Mark McGinley has saved from Sean Kavanagh who was racing onto a square pass at the edge of the six yard box.

A minute minimum of injury time in the first half.

Barry McNamee shots low from about 15 yards and forces Alan Mannus to get down low to save.

Rovers putting some passes together on the sticky pitch in the Harps half as we move towards the half time break.

Stephen Folan ends up on the ground and some half hearted shouts for a Harps penalty of that Tony McNamee throw.

Aaron Greene bundles into Mark McGinely and it is a free out for Harps. 

Rovers have the ball in the net but it is offside.

Dylan Watts (Shamrock Rovers) takes a corner-kick after Ronan Finn gets a corner.

Dylan Watts (Shamrock Rovers) takes a corner-kick and Kosovar Sadiki gets up to head it clear.

Great chance for Aaron Greene as he is played in by Dylan Watts as Rovesr break from that Harps corner. Great save by the 'keeper and on the rebound Harps shuttle it out for  a corner kick for the Hoops.

Sam Todd pushes ball inside to Tony McNamee who steps in to shoot Alan Mannus gets  his yellow kit dirty diving to his left but the ball goes wide.

Barry McNamee's shot is blocked by Joey O'Brien.

Rovers without both Graham Burke (suspended) and Jack Byrne (COVID-19).

Tony McNamee (Finn Harps) takes a corner-kick after his long throw was put behind the Rovers end line by a defender.

Strategic towerl deployment being used by Harps to help with Tony McNamee's long throws.

Adam Foley does well to press Joey O'Brien into an error. He takes the ball towards the corner flag but he can't find a teammate with his cross from the left.

Aaron Greene runs onto Aaron McEneff's pass and shots on target but he can't beat Mark McGinley.

3-5-2 for the visitors and a flat back four for Harps.

Dylan Watts controls the ball on his chest on the edge of the area, turns and crosses in and this time it is Mark McGinley to step out and catch the ball.

Dave Webster gets his head on a long ball into the Rovers box but Alan Mannus steps across and catches the ball.

With the heavy rain in Donegal - there were two pitch inspections today - the ground is cutting up.  Going to be a touch evening for both sets of players.

Tony McNamee sending a long throw into the Rovers box. His throws caused all sorts of problems to Bohs last weekend when Harps won 2-0 in Dalymount Park - there first win at that ground since 1999.

Rob Hennessy in charge of the game tonight.

Corner comes all the way to Sean Kavanagh who gets a shot in that comes to Dylan Watts and his cross is blocked for another set piece.

A win for Harps would move them level with St. Pat's on 20 points, after the Saints drew with Dundalk earlier  this evening, and above both Shelbourne and Derry City. Rovers have won the last five times they've travelled to Ballybofey. The sixth last meeting - which was back in 2008 - was the last time Harps beat the Hoops at home. 

We have Stuart Connolly writing our match report in Finn Park and Clare McCahill is taking photos pitchside. Tuning in from Dublin via WATCHLOI is me Macdara Ferris.

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Photo: Clare McCahill, August 2020 pic.twitter.com/Dkk6iX5XLT

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Ninth placed Harps sit two points behind Shelbourne, St. Pat’s and Derry City - with a game in hand on Shels, having played a game more than the Saints and on the same number of matches played as the Candystripes.

Harps unbeaten in six games and with back-to-back victories over Bohemians (2-0 in Dalymount) and St. Patrick’s Athletic (3-2 in Finn Park), Ollie Horgan’s men have real hope that they can avoid the relegation play-off.

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Captain's armbands are with Gareth Harkin and Ronan Finn this evening. Two former Hoops players in Ollie Horgan's starting line up with Dave Webster and Ryan Connolly in the Harsp team.

Sean Kavanagh makes his first start of the season for Stephen Bradley's Shamrock Rovers side. He has come off the bench in the last four Rovers first team games and made to starts in the First Division.

On the bench there are six players who have played with Aidan Price's Shamrock Rovers II side in the First Division. Aaron Bolger, Thomas Oluwa, Leon Pohls, Hoops II Captain Darragh Nugent, Brandon Kavanagh and 19-year-old Max Murphy are all named on the bench. Kavanagh scored nine goals in 16 appearances in the First Division. Nugent and Kavanagh made the most appearances for Rovers in the second tier. 

Team sheet from Finn Park pic.twitter.com/d25ApjRDSB

— Eric White (@ericwhite80) November 1, 2020