FULL TIME: A win still eludes Derry and Dundalk as the sides shared the points in a tough and tight contest in the Brandywell. It looked as if Dundalk’s strength and depth would come to the fore with a goal from David McMillan it was Cameron McJannett who snatched a point for Derry as he capitised on Alessio Abibi’s hesistant moment in the Dundalk goal. Despite Dundalk putting massive pressure on Dundalk towards the end of the match, Derry’s defence and high tempo gave the just rewards for a point.

Malone gets a yellow card for a foul.

OFF THE BAR! Derry City holding firm but the ball fell to Cameron Dummingan and his effort smashes off the bar!

McMillan once again with a chance but he forced an excellent save from Gartside on what a certain goal.

Dundalk is piling on the pressure in the final minutes with a series of crosses into the area, the best attempt fell to Duffy on the edge of the area but it's blocked down.

A great chance for David McMillan as the cross sent in fell to McMillan he struck it on the volley but it goes wide.

Akintunde comes off for the last period of the game.

McLaughlin coming on for his fourth Derry City appearance.

Chris Shields gets a yellow card for a foul

Sean Murray comes on for his first game for Dundalk this season.

McEleney comes off in his home town

Ole comes on in Derry.

Junior has come off.

Stanton comes off.

Zahibo comes on for his debut

Lafferty comes off.

Barr comes into the game.

A free-kick sent into the area and Abibi spilt the ball as he tried to clear it from the area and McJannett hit it past the keeper from close range.

An almost carbon copy of the first goal attempt McMillan nearly scores again as Duffy\'s low cross is met by the striker but he loses hit footing at the last second and it is cleared.

A fantastic through ball is sent to Sam Stanton and he hits a smashing effort that Gartside did very well to save.

Dundalk take the lead! A fantastic breakaway ball from McEleney who feeds Duffy and his smashing cross is met by McMillan at the near post and he smashed it past the keeper!

For a clash with Shields, Parkhouse gets a yellow card.

And we are back underway in Derry, no changes at the half. Dundalk was forced to make a change in the first half with Patrick Hoban coming off and David McMillan entering the game.

HALF TIME: Dundalk and Derry will be happy with the first-half performance, David Parkhouse looks dangerous for Derry and Dundalk can take comfort from the performances of Patrick McEleney and Michael Duffy. Big second half to come.

One added minute here in Derry.

David McMillan of Dundalk makes his 200th appearance for the club. The striker has scored more goals at the Brandywell than any other opposition venue in his League of Ireland career

Daniel Cleary gets a yellow card for his consistent protests to the referee over the awarding of a free kick.

Dundalk were not switched on from that sub and Will Fitzgerald breaks free of Boyle and the low shot is saved by Abibi and its a corner for Derry City.

On comes David McMillan who has a purple patch knack of scoring against Derry.

Hoban is coming off after picking up an injury.

Looks as if Hoban's night is over. He is limping off and has the socks down, his race is run.

Half an hour played and it's honours even, the best chance of the game has fallen to Patrick McEleney but Akintunde came close to Derry with a header from a freekick.

Lafferty tries to take on a free-kick himself but it crashes against the wall and it goes out for a throw-in.

Andy Boyle is booked for a foul on Akintunde.

A good chance for Derry as Lafferty's free-kick is sent into the area and Akintunde rises highest to head just over the bar.

Fantastic chance for Dundalk FC as Michael Duffy sends in an excellent cross and McEleney chests it down and hits it with the outside of his boot but it flashes wide of the post.

Excellent ball sent in by Patrick McEleney sees Junior in the area heading towards goal but it goes over the bar.

A tweet just posted by former Dundalk First Team manager Shane Keegan: "Not exactly the view I wanted to have tonight but that doesn’t change where the heart is. Come on the Town "

Sam Stanton sends in a clever cross from the left and Hoban's near-post header flashes wide.

And we are underway. Patrick McEleney kicks us off and it's game on!

The teams are out, Dundalk in their away 'GNR' strip of gold and black. Derry City will wear the familiar red and white striped kit.

We are just under five minutes to kick off. A massive night for both teams searching for their first win of the season.

The last time Dundalk lost a league match at the Brandywell was back in October 2012 when Derry ran out 4-0 winners courtesy of goals from David McDaid, Patrick McEleney, Ryan Curran and Dermot Caffrey. Since then they've beaten Dundalk twice, once in Oriel Park in April 2013 and then in March 2017 at Maginn Park. The scoreline in both those matches was 3-1 to the Candystripes and was the last goal scored by the late Ryan McBride. Also that night in Maginn Park this reporter travelled all the way up to Derry only to discover he forgot his coat and nearly succumbed to the elements!

Ole Midtskogen is sporting a face mash on the pitch tonight during warm-ups, he had a nasty clash just before half time in Oriel last Saturday and received medical attention post-match. Looks like he might have broken his nose or damaged it in some manner.

The WatchLOI app has kicked off, who needs that European Super League eh?

Including his cap for Ireland, Andy Boyle makes the 400th appearance of his career tonight.

They are playing at home and they are making landmarks for the two Derry men in the Dundalk side tonight. Patrick McEleney starts game number 325 of his career tonight It’s the 300th appearance of his career for Michael Duffy.

Will Patching will not feature tonight as per the loan agreement with Dundalk.

There have been two changes for Dundalk for tonight\'s game with former Derry City players Patrick McEleney and Junior who come in for Ole Midtskogen and Han Woo. There are two other former Derry City players on the Dundalk bench tonight, as well as new signing Wilfried Zahibo.

Well, the big news coming out of Dundalk this week has been the departure of both Filippo Giovagnoli and Shane Keegan. The popular Italian is probably the first man in charge of Dundalk to have spent his entire managerial career never to have played in front of a crowd of fans. One hundred fans were allowed in for the game vs Shamrock Rovers last year but when you consider he managed the team in both a historic FAI Cup and Europa League fun it must have been a difficult period for him not to endear himself to Dundalk fans.

Nine years ago today Dundalk was in the Brandywell and claimed their first away win of the season when they beat Derry City 2-1 courtesy of goals from Michael Rafter and Shane O'Neill. Ruaidhrí Higgins pulled one back but despite Chris Shields being sent off late on Dundalk held on.

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen and you are very welcome to tonight's live coverage of Derry City FC and Dundalk FC live from the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium. I'm Ciaran Callan and a win tonight will see the first three points collected for either Derry City or Dundalk and both sides are winless thus far after five games.