Full time.

Five minutes added on.

Pierrot is off. A wonderful performance.

Goal! Pierrot has the hat-trick after Campions Hinds meets a cross at the back post and squares it to him for a tap in. Totally deserved and Athlone now look set to secure a big result.

Hickey plays a lovely through ball to Pierrot but he can't quite get the desired contact on it. Really hunting for the hat-trick.

Duffy weaves his way to the byline but absolutely skews his final ball right out.

McCarrick dispossesses Tallon and crosses to Pierrot, but he slices it wide.

Dobbs gets through but Minogue is quick off his line to deny him.

Dolia skips past Piper and his square ball to Pierrot is palmed away by Heffernan.

It's nearly a calamity at the back for Heffernan. Leal gives Pierrot a ball to chase and Heffernan storms out to head clear but fluffs his lines and lets Pierrot get an effort off, that rolls wide.

Duffy and Conor Levingston have a little tussle on the sideline. Broken up and no cards are awarded.

Darragh Levingston has a long range effort dip just over. Wexford definitely better out of the half.

Van Geenan barges Boyle off the ball in the box and the ref waves penalty claims away. Athlone may be lucky there.

Dobbs is fed through but blazes over.

Back underway.

Ref blows it up as Athlone are on the counter. Hickey not happy. Nonetheless, it's 2-0 Athlone at the half.

One minute added on.

Dolia is set through following a one-two with Pierrot but Heffernan is quick off his line to make the save.

Goal! Athlone double their lead after a floated free leads to a back and forth of headers in the box, which results in Hickey nodding into Pierrot's path who turns and finds the net! 2-0!

Lennon knocks it inside to Leal and he fires over from range.

It's clipped to Reece Webb at the back post and he slices it far over. Poor attempt.

Goal! Athlone have the lead after Dolia knocks it to Pierrot, who turns every which way on the edge of the area, bides his time and fires into the roof of the net! Lovely finish.

Corbally cuts onto his left in the area and forces another Minogue save. Not a quiet afternoon for the home keeper.

Corbally gets the ball in midfield, drives forward and forces Minogue to tip over. Wexford starting to come into it.

Mark Hanratty forces a save from Minogue at the near post. First Wexford chance and they've a corner.

Lennon has time out right and Pierrot is all alone in the box, but Lennon overcooks his cross. Athlone definitely the better side in the first 15.

Dolia bursts forward looking for a pass but it's not on. His eventual shot drags wide.

It falls to Pierrot in the area and he's denied at point blank range by Heffernan. Good start from Athlone.

Athlone have the ball in the net after a quick direct move that ended with Pierrot nodding it in, but he's deemed to have committed a foul in the build up.

We're off.

Teams are out, kickoff is nigh.

Late change to the Athlone team. Abdikadir has been injured in the warmup and is replaced by Leal. Josh McGlone joins the bench.

It's a nice sunny day out. Perfect for a game of ball.

Athlone could put distance between themselves and the chasing pack with a win. They'll be hoping for a far better start than last week, when they were 4-0 down to Waterford at the break.

Wexford are two places and two points behind Athlone. A win tonight and they would leapfrog them and could end up in the playoff places depending on the Harps v Longford result tonight.

Hello and welcome to finalwhistle.ie for live coverage of tonight's LOIFD encounter between Athlone Town and Wexford FC. I'm Seán Comber and I'll be updating you throughout.