LIVERepublic of Ireland v Portugal, World Cup qualifier, live minute-by-minute updates

We will also have some updates from the other crucial game in the group between Armenia and Hungary, which kicks-off at 5pm.

KNOCK KNOCK: Cristiano Ronaldo before a Portugal media conference at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Ben McShane/Sportsfile

4.30pm Tonight’s the night.

Tonight will either be the night Ireland’s World Cup dream officially ends or it will be the night we all start believing we can qualify for our first finals since 2002.

For that to happen, the Boys in Green will need a favour from Armenia when they host Hungary at 5pm which will then determine just how positive a result Heimir Hallgrímsson’s men will need against Portugal.

Kick-off against Ronaldo and co is at 7:45pm but I will be providing you all with regular updates from the press box in the Aviva Stadium from 7pm so stay tuned for that.

But before then, I will keep you posted on the second half between Armenia and Hungary and also team news from the Irish and Portuguese camps as soon as the team sheet is in my hand.

And before all that, feel free to read the best of the preview pieces from our website which you can find below.

Portugal preview: There's always the Euros on the horizon as realities of November winter bite.