Northern Ireland were unable to build on Sunday’s victory over Malta as an early goal saw them fall to a 1-0 friendly defeat away to Ukraine.

Oleksandr Zubkov scored in the 10th minute for the hosts in their penultimate Euro 2020 warm-up match.

NI were overwhelmed in a relentless first half hour but responded well and came close to levelling through Ciaron Brown before the break.

Artem Besyedin had a goal disallowed for offside in the last

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