Here are today's four Irish Premiership fixtures.

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Niall Currie
Former Portadown manager on BBC Radio Ulster

Jim Magilton will have a cool head but will be raging with the defeat last week.

Ballymena come in off the back of a good performance, but Jim will stay calm and tell his players 'you are only one game away from turning things around'.

I think Cliftonville have a good chance today.

Philip Major
Sportsound summariser

The Glens are at home, and the odds are heavily stacked in their favour today, but the Swifts are capable of getting a result.

They have had a couple of bad results so Rodney McAree will have them fired up, so, I am expecting a tight game.

Colin Coates
Former Crusaders captain on BBC Sport NI

Portadown have one point from nine games, plenty of teams will go on a similar bad one later in the season.

There seems to be a bigger focus on it when it is at the start of the season, and you are trying to get off the mark.

This game today is a crunch game for Portadown, they should feel like they have an opportunity to get three points. If not, it rolls into another week and puts more pressure on the staff and players.

Alarm bells were ringing for Linfield after a humbling 3-0 home defeat by Ballymena United on the opening day of the season.

However, nearly two months on, those concerns seem a distant memory as the Blues have responded in comprehensive fashion and are unbeaten in eight subsequent league games.

David Healy's side swept aside Coleraine 3-1 at Ballycastle Road last week night to emphasise their title credentials and give further credence to the old adage that 'you can never write off Linfield'.

It was arguably the result of the weekend in the Irish Premiership and one which left Linfield joint top of the table with the Bannsiders as they continue their pursuit of a 58th Gibson Cup success.

Read more of Jana McCabe's analysis of the Blues' revival following their opening day reverse here.

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Stephen Baxter makes one change to his Carrick Rangers starting line-up following the Gers' 2-0 defeat by Glentoran.

Joe Crowe returns to the side after suspension replacing Seanan Clucas, who drops to the bench.

Declan Caddell, meanwhile, names an unchanged starting XI following the Crues' 2-1 victory over Bangor at Seaview.

Carrick Rangers: Gartside, Nelson, J. Forsythe, Callacher, Gibson, Lecky, Steele, Buchanan-Rolleston, Crowe, Heatley, Snoddy.

Subs: Agnew, O’Connor, Clucas, Maciulaitis, Moore, Hastings, Hawthorne.

Crusaders: Callister, K. Forsythe, Kelly, Rough, Weir, Dunlop, Rocks, Reid, Wardell, McKay, Anderson.

Subs: Blaney, Jewitt-White, Doherty, Williamson, Bond, Maguire, Barr.

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Watch highlights of Crusaders' win over Bangor at Seaview last weekend as Declan Caddell's side moved up to fourth place in the Irish Premiership table.

It's the very essence of a mid-table game at the Oval as fifth placed Glentoran host Dungannon Swifts, one place further back in sixth.

The Glens, still without a permanent head coach following the departure of Declan Devine, make just one change from last week's 2-0 home win over Carrick Rangers.

Club captain Marcus Kane doesn't even make the match day squad, his place in the starting line-up taken by midfielder Jack Malone.

Rodney McAree also makes just the one switch to the Dungannon Swifts side which started in last weekend's draw with Ballymena United as Tiernan Kelly is replaced by Leo Alves.

Glentoran: Mills, Cooney, Clarke, Stewart, Sloggett, Brown, Larmour, Singleton (c), Malone, Jenkins, Douglas.

Subs: Crellin, Kelly, Daniels, O'Rourke, Gallagher, McMenamin, Rogers-Duffy.

Dungannon Swifts: Henderson, McKeown, Dillon, Alves, Glenny, Gordon, Glackin, Wallace, Bigirimana (c), Junior, McAllister.

Subs: McCloskey, McGinty, Scott, Kelly, Smith, Mitchell, Johnston.

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Highlights of Glentoran's 2-0 win over Carrick Rangers at the Oval last week, courtesy of Jordan Jenkins' double.

Cliftonville boss Jim Magilton gave a fairly withering verdict on his side's defeat at Limavady last week and reinforces his point by making five changes to his starting line-up today.

Teenage defender Paul Stanfield makes his full debut, while Ollie Samuels, Rhyss Campbell, Joel Thompson and Ben Quinn are all recalled to the starting line-up. Luke Conlan, Joe Gormley and Joe Sheridan are all on the bench while Dan O'Connor and Aaron Wightman miss out entirely.

Ballymena make one change from the side which beat Portadown last Saturday with James Hood replacing Michael Leetch in midfield.

Cliftonville: Morrison, Bannon, Stanfield, McClelland, Samuels, Thompson, McMaster, Hale, Quinn, Campbell, Healy.

Subs: Cremen-Cowan, Leppard, Conlan, Gormley, McStravick, Sheridan, Murray.

Ballymena United: Walsh, Toure, Lyons-Foster, McCallion, Glynn, Sule, McConnell, Archer, Hood, Thorndike, Rutkowski.

Subs: Breen, McKee, Murray, Whiteside, Fallon, Burns, Leetch,

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Watch highlights of last Saturday's game at Ballymena Showgrounds as Ballymena United ran out 2-0 winners over struggling Portadown.

Portadown are unchanged from last weekend's 2-0 defeat by Ballymena United, with Gary Thompson captaining the side.

The bottom-placed Ports are still searching for their first league win of the season, having taken one point from their opening nine matches.

Limavady United make two changes from their 1-0 victory over Cliftonville, with captain Stephen Lowry returning from suspension and Oisin Duffy coming in for Ruairi Boorman and John Butcher.

The newly-promoted Roesiders have won three of their past four league matches after beginning the campaign with five successive defeats.

Portadown: McCarey, Ismala, Carson, Altintop, Chapman, Breen, O'Mahoney King, Hewitt, Thompson (c), Kennedy, Flanagan.

Subs: Barry, Towe, Falls, Fyfe, Walls, Teelan, Scott.

Limavady United: Gallagher, Farren, T Boorman, P Lowry, S Lowry (c), Duffy, McGonigle, Lafferty, Gaston, Wilson, Mullan.

Subs: Doherty, Tosh, O'Donnell, R Boorman, Brown, Carlin, Boyd.

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Reaction from Limavady United's win over Cliftonville last Saturday.

Watch highlights of last weekend's Premiership encounter at the Showgrounds as Limavady got the better of Cliftonville.

Limavady United boss Paul Owens praised Jamie McGonigle's performance after he scored the winning goal in their 1-0 victory over Cliftonville last Saturday.

Striker McGonigle joined newly promoted Limavady on loan from Coleraine and has made a big impact in the opening games of the season.

The 30-year-old netted in the 20th minute against the Reds to move level at the top of the league's goalscoring charts alongside Coleraine's Matthew Shevlin on five goals apiece.

"It was a brilliant finish, and there is no one else you would want that to fall to," Owens told BBC Sport NI.

"We've missed chances early on in the season and Jamie has had that wee bit of gold dust there and we've been creating chances, but that's just the energy and the pressure.

"A couple of wins does that to you, and there has been no panic in that changing room. We haven't changed tactics or anything. We've been really calm and hammering the same messages, and I thoroughly believed that we weren't far away."

The Roesiders have now won three of their past four games before visiting bottom club Portadown today.

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Ciaron Brown, who scored his first two goals for Northern Ireland in their 3-0 Nations League win over Ukraine, reflects on a special evening for him personally and for his side, who now sit top of Group B3.

Michael O'Neill had spent the build-up to Northern Ireland's Nations League outing against Ukraine playing down memories of their famous win at Euro 2016.

His focus was firmly on what was to come rather than reflect on the past.

If a stunning 3-0 victory on Friday night was anything to go by, it's going to be a pretty exciting future indeed.

His starting team had an average age of just 22, which was the youngest on record for Northern Ireland since World War Two.

Oxford's Ciaron Brown, the only player over the age of 25 to start the game in Trnava, Slovakia, was in the right place to open the scoring in the ninth minute from Ruairi McConville's knockdown.

O'Neill handed a first start to 19-year-old Kieran Morrison, and his superb cross led to Isaac Price doubling the lead, before Brown's header evaded goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk in bizarre circumstances with 30 minutes left.

While the victory may not be quite as memorable as the 2-0 'Kings of Lyon' success 10 years ago at the Euros, it was extremely impressive.

To put it into context - and never mind the manner of the performance - only Sweden and France have beaten Ukraine in the past 12 months.

Northern Ireland can now be added to that list.

Read more here.

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Watch highlights as Northern Ireland produce a ruthless display to beat Ukraine 3-0 in their Uefa Nations League game in Trnava.

Here is how the table looks ahead of today's Irish Premiership fixtures.

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With leaders Coleraine in action against Bangor on Sunday and Larne's game against Linfield postponed because of international call-ups, none of the top three in the Irish Premiership are in action today.

That leaves the stage clear for the other teams in the division to make their mark and potentially make up some ground on the leading trio in the top flight.

Fourth-placed Crusaders have surprised many by winning five of their opening nine league encounters to occupy fourth place in the table and today they travel to face a Carrick Rangers side who have drawn one and lost four of their last five league outings.

Elsewhere, Cliftonville will be out to bring an end to a run of three defeats in a row in the top flight when they entertain Ballymena United at Solitude.

Glentoran have won their last two under the guidance of interim coaches Paddy McCourt and Tim McCann so they will aim to keep that sequence going with a home game against Dungannon Swifts.

The day's other game sees basement club Portadown face Limavady United at Shamrock Park as David Jeffrey's charges continue to chase their first win of the campaign.

We'll have text updates to keep you informed of all the action as it unfolds throughout the afternoon, plus full radio coverage on Sportsound and in-play clips of all the goals and any other key moments.

Stay with us, and enjoy!