The sun is out at Taylors Avenue but the wind is up. It will be the last home game for Carrick this season and they will be aiming for a victory over Ballymena that would guarantee seventh place in the table and qualification for the end-of-season European play-offs.

Rangers boss Stephen Baxter makes three changes to the side that drew 1-1 away to Portadown on Tuesday night. Adam Lecky, Ben Buchanan-Rolleston and Matthew Olosunde all earn promotion to the starting lineup.

Oran Kearney changes two personnel for today's game after they also drew 1-1 in midweek against Glenavon. In comes Aaron Jarvis and James Hood for the Sky Blues.

Carrick Rangers: Gartside, Place, Burns, Callacher, Gibson, McCullough, Steele, Lecky, Snoddy, Buchanan-Rolleston, Olosunde

Subs: Donnelly, Waide, Cherry, Glendinning, McCawl, McKay, Moore.

Ballymena United: Wade, Toure, Jarvis, McCallion, O'Donnell, Clarke, Hood, Sule, Corbally, Edogun, Rutkowski.

Subs: Breen, Lafferty, Rocks, O'Connor, Ebbe, Thompson, Murray.

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Lee Feeney makes a single change to the side that drew 1-1 with Crusaders on Tuesday evening.

Michael Morgan comes into the starting XI in place of Lewis Harrison, who misses out after picking up a knock against the Crues.

Michael O’Connor, meanwhile, makes three alterations following his side’s draw with Ballymena United.

Oran O’Kane, Kris Lowe and Luke McGerrigan drop out, with Harry Murphy, Peter Campbell and Charlie Lindsay all handed starts.

Bangor: Deane, Neale, Hassin, Mulvenna, Cushnie, Fallon, Lynch, Francis, Morgan, McGuinness, Hughes.

Subs: McMahon, Haughey, O’Mahony, Garrett, Boyd, Ritchie, Mitchell.

Glenavon: Carney, McMullan, Burns, Murphy, McKeown, Campbell, Ferris, Falls, McGovern, Lindsay, Mountney.

Subs: O’Kane, Lowe, Wilson, Gilmore, Harkin, Carlin, Quinn.

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It's now or never for Crusaders as they look to move off the bottom of the Irish Premiership table and give themselves a chance of staying in the top flight.

Wins have been hard to come by for Declan Caddell's side. You have to go back to 3 January for the last time they managed to pick up three points when they beat Dungannon Swifts 2-0.

Goal difference currently separates the Crues from 11th placed Glenavon with three games left to play, it could have been worse for them but for Lloyd Anderson's 94th minute equaliser against Bangor on Tuesday night.

Caddell makes one change to that side with Lewis Barr coming in for Evan Easton.

Portadown found themselves pegged back late on against Carrick Rangers in midweek, denting their hopes of pipping Stephen Baxter's side to seventh place.

Boss Niall Currie makes four changes to the starting XI following the 1-1 draw at Shamrock Park with Jack Scott, Gary Thompson, Ben Quinn and Josh Carson coming in for James Teelan, Aaron Traynor, Luke Wilson and Lee Chapman.

Crusaders: Dibaga, K Forsythe, Weir, McKechnie, Brooks, Dunlop, J Forsythe, Williamson, Bryden, Bruce, Barr.

Subs: Jewitt-White, Thorndike, Nixon, McCart, Maguire, Rough, Anderson.

Portadown: Moore, Altintop, MacKinnon, Ukek, Fyfe, Minzamba, Scott, Thompson, Towe, Quinn, Carson.

Subs: Isamala, Chapman, Gibson, Tetteh, McCartan, Annett, Wells.

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A sub apiece as Conor McKendry comes on for Andy Ryan while David Healy makes a triple change.

All three teenage debutants are off with Josh Archer, Chris McKee and Charlie Allen coming on for Oliver Wade, Finlay Ross and Jon Graham.

Glentoran make just one change from the side which won at Cliftonville in midweek as Jack Malone gets the nod over James Singleton.

Dungannon boss Rodney McAree has been carefully monitoring his squad with the forthcoming Irish Cup final in mind and he makes six changes from the side which lost at home against Linfield on Tuesday.

Alex Henderson replaces Declan Dunne in goal, while there are also returns to the starting XI for Caolan Marron, Leo Alves, Paul Doyle, Andrew Mitchell and skipper Gael Bigirimana.

Glentoran: Mills, Cooney, Kamson Kamara, Larmour, Amos, Palmer, Malone, McEneff, Daniels, Stewart, Hoban.

Subs: Crellin, Kane, Thomson, Connolly, Burt, Gallagher, Jenkins.

Dungannon Swifts: Henderson, Smith, Maguire, Marron, Wallace, Glenny, Kelly, Bigirimana, Doyle, Alves, Mitchell.

Subs: Glass, Knowles, Dillon, Anderson, Moore, Johnston, Liggett.

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Paul O'Neill must be feeling like he has a hex on him as he is picked out by Andy Ryan and bares down on goal but his effort is deflected over by a brilliant Dane McCullough challenge.

A first home game in almost a month for Coleraine and it just happens to be against the same opposition, Cliftonville, as it was back on March 14.

The hosts won 1-0 that afternoon courtesy of a Will Patching goal, part of an impressive run which has seen them lose just one league game since the turn of the year.

Patching is one of two players returning to the starting line-up from Tuesday night's impressive defeat of Larne, top scorer Joel Cooper the other.

The men dropping to the bench are Jamie Glackin and Senan Devine.

Visitors Cliftonvile, who lost to Glentoran in midweek, also make two changes as Luke Conlan and striker Joe Gormley return at the expense of Keevan Hawthorne, listed among the replacements, and defender Shaun Leppard, who doesn't make the matchday squad.

Coleraine: Schofield, Boyle, Patching, Shevlin, Cooper, Ives (c), Dunne, Stewart, Wylie, Okoro, Coyle.

Subs: Webb, Kane, Lyons-Foster, Glackin, McGonigle, Connolly, Devine.

Cliftonville: Morrison, Pepper, Hale (c), Curran, Conlan, Gormley, Glynn, Kelly, Toole, McStravick, Healy.

Subs: Ridd, McCay, Hawthorne, Carroll, Sheridan, Stanfield, McGarry.

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Mark Randall's free kick delivery is right on top of David Walsh who does well to punch away despite the imposing presence of Matt Ridley around him.

Matty Lusty has been a foul magnet today and this time he has his shirt pulled by Finlay Ross who is booked.

Gary Haveron makes a change in the midfield as Mark Randall replaces James Simpson.

What does Paul O'Neill need to do to score?! He makes a run into the box and ignores Aaron Donnelly to his left but hits a hard shot that David Walsh has to get a strong hand on to turn it behind.

The corner comes to nothing and still just a one goal lead with 65 minutes on the clock.

The first Linfield sub of the game comes on the hour mark as Robbie McDaid replaces Matt Yates.

In truth, Yates was pretty anonymous up front so David Healy will be hoping for more of a presence from McDaid.

Oliver Wade with a rather incongruous lunge on Matty Lusty and he picks up a yellow card on his debut.

Andy Ryan nearly catches out David Walsh at his near post. It was almost certainly a cross but the Linfield keeper had to be alert to stop it creeping in at the near post.

Paul O'Neill again! He has been in the thick of it since coming on at half-time just five minutes ago!

This time, David Walsh smothers his effort from a narrow angle.

That should have been two! Andy Ryan gets into the box and finds Paul O'Neill who should have scored with his first touch but spoons over the bar.

He'll be really disappointed with one.

Back under way for the second half as Larne gets us going. Gary Haveron has made a double substitution with Sean Graham and Jordan McEneff being replaced by Ronan Doherty and Paul O'Neill.

You can catch in-play clip video coverage of all the day's goals in the Irish Premiership, plus any other major incidents, in our live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.

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Sportsound, presented today by Joel Taggart, will have live commentary, reports and reaction from all of today's six matches in the Irish Premiership from 14:00 BST.

The programme will have reporters at each of the six grounds, with expert analysis from some of the key encounters.

Michael Hammond will be joined by former Dungannon Swifts and Coleraine manager Dean Shiels for Linfield v Larne at Windsor Park, while Eric White will have the company of Tony Gorman for Coleraine v Cliftonville.

Sean Ward joins Michael McNamee at the Oval as second-placed Glentoran host Dungannon Swifts.

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