Connacht get the ball moving for the first time since the restart.

Replacement Josh Ioane swings the ball wide to Finn Treacy who links up well with Shane Jennings.

They move the ball back out left but Werner Kok reads the play perfectly and smashes Cathal Forde, who knocks on.

Scrum down Ulster and they clear their lines.

More poor handling costs Ulster as they spill the ball just outside the Connacht 22.

They have dominated since the restart, but will they be made to rue these errors?

Finlay Bealham returns from the sin bin with the score the same as when he left.

Connacht did well to ride out that 10 minutes either side of the half-time whistle.

That should have been a try for Ulster!

Great handling from Ulster as Jacob Stockdale sends Werner Kok away down the wing.

The South African gives inside to Nathan Doak who, in turn, finds Ben Carson but he fumbles with the line at his mercy.

Will Ulster be made to regret not taking advantage of that huge chance?

Nathan Doak and Iain Henderson can't connect and Finn Treacy intercepts under his own posts.

The Connacht wing hacks it away and almost wins the race to the ball, but it's Dave McCann who gets there first. One for the back row union there!

It is now scrum down Ulster between their own 22 and 10 metre line.

The fresh legs in the Connacht scrum don't pay off as Ulster win a penalty.

Jack Murphy pops it within around 10 metres from the line.

Big moment here for the hosts...

Sam Illo joins us temporarily as a scrum replacement. Ulster will be happy to see that it is Sean Jansen who has been taken off for now.

Back under way at the Affidea Stadium.

While the rest of us were off getting a cup of tea, the officials were reviewing Finlay Bealham's yellow card and have decided it will remain just that.

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Bundee Aki has had reasons why he hasn't been as good as he can be but, tonight, he has turned up from the start.

If Connacht are going to stage something tonight, he was always going to have to make an impact and he has.

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It has been incredibly physical from the start.

The defensive effort from both sides has been outstanding.

All square after 40 minutes at the Affidea Stadium.

A physical but, at times, disjointed affair in Belfast that has us set up nicely for the second half.

Right on a knife edge.

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Ireland international prop Finlay Bealham is sent to the sin bin initially but that will be a bunker review.

It will certainly be interesting to see if they change the colour of the card for that one.

Finlay Bealham could be in trouble here for a shoulder to the head of Tom Stewart.

Ben Carson is absolutely drilled into touch at halfway by a huge tackle by Finn Treacy.

Not often you see a tackle like that from a wing but then as a former flanker myself, I would say that!

Ulster spin the ball wide left and a Connacht physio nearly gets in the way but the ball finds Zac Ward with limited space.

He manages to get a rather makeshift grubber in, but Marcus Rea is beaten to it by a green shirt.

Goal-line drop-out Connacht.

Connacht are penalised for the lesser-spotted dummy throw at the line-out and Ulster's free kick takes the into the 22.

They are slightly disjointed with ball in hand, but win a scrum at the ruck around 30 metres from the line.

Jack Carty and Nathan Doak play a bit of kick tennis with the men in green coming out on top.

Carty's kick chases Doak back into his own in-goal area and his clearance only makes it to the 22.