Live updates: Donegal take on Cavan in Allianz League Division 2

FULL-TIME - Cavan 0-12 Donegal 0-13
With one between them, Shaun Patton's kick-out was vital and Michael Langan won it in midfield before time was blown. Cavan crowd unhappy with the referee, but proud of their team. A good win for Donegal, with plenty to work on.

70+6 mins - Cavan 0-12 Donegal 0-13
Close-range free from Paddy Lynch 

70+5 mins Cavan 0-11 Donegal 0-13
Oisin Gallen's free from way over left is excellently executed off the ground and there's some breathing space

70+4mins - Cavan 0-11 Donegal 0-12
Luke McGlynn is on for Jamie Brennan

70 mins
The fourth official has indicated there will be five minutes injury time to be played

68 mins - Cavan 0-11 Donegal 0-12
Donegal are under intense pressure now and Cavan score again, this time through Ryan O'Neill. Shaun Patton is down injured and Gavin Mulreany is warming up

66 mins  - Cavan 0-10 Donegal 0-12
Ciaran Brady's free is good there's and just the two in it

Cavan are pressing Donegal still and are very much in this game with just over five to play

63 mins - Cavan 0-9 Donegal 0-12
Caoimhin O'Reilly puts over a brilliant free from an acute angle beside the sideline, 21 meters out.

59 mins - Cavan 0-8 Donegal 0-12
Caoimhin O'Reilly scores for Cavan moment after coming on but Shaun Patton gets his side moving instantly and HJamie Brenna punches a point

56 mins - Cavan 0-7 Donegal 0-11
Caolan McGonagle does well to win a free for Donegal and Shaun Patton comes up to kick it, from about 40 meters out, and puts in wide. Ryan Brady for Ryan O'Neill, for Cavan, and Caoimhin O'Reilly for Tiarnan Madden

55 mins - Cavan 0-7 Donegal 0-11
A free right in front of the posts, which Patrick McBrearty converts, had been brought in for dissent. The Donegal skipper, like Oisin Gallen, has now scored five points

48 mins - Cavan 0-7 Donegal 0-10
Jeaic Mac Ceallabhuí is straight into the action and straight on the scoreboard, with Patrick McBrearty having worked a free short

47 mins - Cavan 0-7 Donegal 0-9
Donegal's best passage of play by some distance in this second half sees Oisin Gallen score his fifth point

45 mins - Cavan 0-7 Donegal 0-8
Cavan pull one back thanks to a score from Ciaran Brady's fist

43 mins - Cavan 0-6 Donegal 0-8
Jeaic Mac Ceallabhuí comes in for Domhnall Mac Giolla Bhríde

41 mins 
Cavan have made a strong start to the second half and have played most of the football in it

39 mins - Cavan 0-6 Donegal 0-8
Paddy Lynch's free from the left of the posts is straight over and Cavan are back to within two

37 mins - Cavan 0-5 Donegal 0-8
Dara McVeety marks a ball and then kicks the point himself

Second half underway: Oisin Caulfield and Michael Langan are on for Rory O'Donnell and Shane O'Donnell. For Cavan, James Galligan is in for Ryan Donohue

HALF-TIME
Donegal came good in the second quarter there and from 0-3 to 0-3 after 15 minutes, moved into a lead of 0-8 to 0-4, with Oisin Gallen looking hot on four and Patrick McBrearty having scored three time

35+4 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-8
Donegal have an eighth point and it's McBrearty from a free

35 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-7
Sub for Donegal with Mark Curran in for Eoghan Ban Gallagher. There's four minutes of injury time to be played, at least.

32 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-7
Oisin Gallen is on fire, with another great score to beat the Cavan press. Donegal are starting to get asserted control of the contest

30 mins - Cavan 0-4 Donegal 0-6
Cavan pull one back right away and this time it's Paddy Lynch who puts over the free

29 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-6
Oisin Gallen with a brilliant free from outside the 45 makes it a three-point game

28 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-5
Ciaran Thompson has a wand of a left foot, and shows his right isn't for standing on with a superb long-ranger to put the away team two up

26 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Caolan McGonagle is back on following his black card. Cavan not holding back in any way and are not standing off Donegal

25 mins  - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Heavy challenge by Killian Clarke on Ryan McHugh sees the Cavan midfielder yellow-carded

19 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-4
Ryan McHugh puts Oisin Gallen free down the right and the MacCumhaill's forward cuts inside and puts over a great score. Gallen and McBrearty now have two points apiece.



15 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-3
Caolan McGonagle has been black-carded for an off-the-ball incident

The pitch here at Breffni doesn't look as wide as it used to! Maybe that's a notion!

11 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-3
McBrearty's free from the 45-metre level levels it again

9 mins - Cavan 0-3 Donegal 0-2
A mark by James Smith for Cavan is well executed and he slots over

8 mins - Cavan 0-2 Donegal 0-2
Patrick McBrearty makes good of an awkward chance to hook over

7 mins - Cavan 0-2 Donegal 0-1
The lead is as Cavan level with Padraig Faulkner before going ahead through Ciaran Brady's free

4 mins - Cavan 0-0 Donegal 0-1
Oisin Gallen skips through a couple of challenges and opens the scoring for Donegal

1 min - Cavan 0-0 Donegal 0-0
Gary O'Rourke, the Cavan goalkeeper on his debut, shows he's more than willing to push up and join the play, but the move comes to nothing 

4pm 
We're underway in Cavan. The home side have a slight wind in the opening half

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has made three changes to the starting XV ahead of their Allianz League Division 2 clash with Cavan, throw-in 4pm.

Stephen McMenamin, Eoghan Ban Gallagher and Rory O’Donnell come into the team, in place of Mark Curran, Ciaran Moore and Peadar Mogan. Philip Doherty of Naomh Columba has been added to the substitutes.

Donegal: Shaun Patton; Stephen McMenamin, Brendan McCole, Domhnall Mac Giolla Bhríde; Ryan McHugh, Caolan McGonagle, Eoghan Ban Gallagher; Ciaran Thompson, Daire Ó Baoill; Rory O’Donnell, Odhran Doherty, Shane O’Donnell; Patrick McBrearty, Oisin Gallen, Jamie Brennan.