All Whites - 0 Australia - 1
FULLTIME - A vailant effort in defeat by the Kiwis, who held their own against their World Cup-bound opponents. Click here for a full wrap.
87th min - Australia with the best chance of the half - Oli Sail's outstretched fingertip sending Leckie's shot off the outside of the lefthand post.
82nd min - Waine threatens, great piece of defending saves the Australians.Good period of pressure for the All Whites.
62nd min - Michael Boxall earns the first booking of the night. The referee has been letting them play out there.
56th min - Aussie stringing together some slick passages of attacking play but unable to find the finishing touch. NZ with plenty to offer of their own, however.
50th min - Garbett shows great strength to win the ball in midfield and sets off towards goal, only to be undone by a slip. He's been NZ's best tonight.
46th min - Second half underway.
HALFTIME
40th min - Garbett with another opportunity, puts his effort on target but it's relatively easy work for Ryan.
33rd min - GOAL AUSTRALIA
Mabil blasts past Sail from just outside the top of the box to give the Aussies the lead.
26th min - Cacace truns in the box and fires low after some excellent build up play by NZ. Deflection gives NZ a corner. Punched clear by the keeper.
24th min - Garbett with a superb searching run through the midfield, finds Just wide but his cross is gobbled up by the keeper.
19th min - All Whites earn their first corner. Just gets a head to it but the defence clears safely.
17th min - Aussie's turn to blow a golden chance, as they start to seize the momentum. NZ defence holding on.
10th min - Great chance for NZ! Keeper Oli Sail's long ball finds De Jong, had the angle but puts his effort wide of the post. That should've been 1-0 to the All Whites.
6th min - Free kick NZ, five metres outside of the box. They should look for the tall timber in Wood here. Decent delivery by Bell but the referee says Wood shoved his defender and Aussie avert danger.
2nd min - All Whites put one on target early! Payne reads the play well, intercepts a poor centering pass and shoots low and hard, but the Aussie keeper reels it in without too much trouble.
1st min - We are underway. The All Whites in all black this evening.
9:57pm - Today's rain in Brisbane has passed and conditions are warm and clear - ripe for some free-flowing football.
A moment for The Queen and we're into the anthems.
9:52pm - Evening, football fans! Here's what the All Whites' starting XI looks like tonight.
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Kia ora and welcome to live updates of the All Whites, as they take on old foes Australia for the first time in over a decade.
The last time the trans-Tasman rivals met was at Adelaide back in 2011, when the Socceroos proved far too strong in claiming a 3-0 win.
But there are two very different sides, with just three All Whites players remaining from that squad in Winston Reid, Chris Wood, and Michael Boxall.
The two-match series provides the Australians a warm-up for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar, while providing an opportunity for the All Whites to measure themselves against Oceania's best, after the disappointment of their qualifying loss to Costa Rica.
We'll have all of the action for you from kick off at 10pm (NZ time).
TAB betting odds:
Australia - $1.44 New Zealand - $6.50
Team squads:
New Zealand:
Goalkeepers: Alex Paulsen, Oli Sail, Michael Woud
Defenders: Kyle Adams, Michael Boxall, Liberato Cacace, Dane Ingham, Tim Payne, Nando Pijnaker, Winston Reid, Storm Roux, Bill Tuiloma, Deklan Wynne
Midfielders: Joe Bell, Matt Garbett, Cam Howieson, Ben Old, Marko Stamenic
Forwards: Andre de Jong, Alex Greive, Elijah Just, Callum McCowatt, Ben Waine, Chris Wood.
Predicted XI: Sail, Ingham, Boxall, Reid, Pijnaker, Cacace, Bell, Stamenic, Garbett, Just, Wood
Australia:
Goalkeepers: Mitch Langerak, Andrew Redmayne, Mathew Ryan
Defenders: Nathaniel Atkinson, Aziz Behich, Harrison Delbridge, Milos Degenek, Thomas Deng, Fran Karacic, Trent Sainsbury, Ryan Strain, Bailey Wright, Joel King
Midfielders: Keanu Baccus, Cameron Devlin, Tyrese Francois, Ajdin Hrustic, Denis Genreau, Jackson Irvine, Riley McGree, Connor Metcalfe, Aaron Mooy
Forwards: Jason Cummings, Martin Boyle, Garang Kuol, Mathew Leckie, Awer Mabil, Adam Taggart, Marco Tilio, Mitchell Duke, Jamie Maclaren.
Predicted XI: Ryan, Atkinson, Wright, Sainsbury, Behich, Mooy, Irvine, Hrustic, Boyle, Taggart, Leckie
