Roscommon and Mayo name teams for another battle in the Hyde

Roscommon and Mayo have named their football teams as they prepare to meet at Dr Hyde Park for the second time in this year's championship tomorrow evening (Saturday), throw-in 5pm.

Davy Burke has decided to go with the same XV that started against Dublin last weekend, but Ben O'Carroll is absent from the match-day panel of 26. The St Brigid's attacker came on as a substitute in the 2-19 to 0-13 defeat to Dublin, but he has been hampered by injury this year and has missed a good deal of action as a result.

Ronan Daly of Pádraig Pearses returns to the panel after missing the Dublin match through injury and there is a strong presence from the south of the county on the bench. The list of subs includes Clann na nGael duo Patrick Gavin and Ultan Harney, St Brigid's trio Shane Cunnane, Ruaidhrí Fallon and Conor Hand, along with Keith Doyle of St Dominic's.

Mayo defeated Roscommon by 1-15 to 0-13 when the sides met in their Connacht semi-final in April, and Kevin McStay's side also came out on top in this year's Division 1 league encounter.

Therefore, Roscommon will be particularly keen to avoid another defeat at the hands of Mayo as they seek their first championship win over their old rivals at Hyde Park since 2001. That said, the Rossies did beat Mayo in last year's Connacht championship encounter in Castlebar, and they will also take encouragement for the way they performed for long stages of last Saturday's game against Dublin.

See here for Davy Burke's views on Roscommon's match with Dublin last weekend.

Meanwhile, Mayo have made one change to their starting team from the team that recorded a relatively comfortable win over Cavan in the opening round.

The hugely experienced Aidan O'Shea replaces Diarmuid O'Connor, who is not part of Mayo's match-day panel for this All-Ireland SFC Group 2 game, which will be shown live on GAAGO.

Roscommon (vs Mayo): Conor Carroll; David Murray, Brian Stack, Niall Higgins; Niall Daly, Robbie Dolan, Eoin McCormack; Enda Smith, Tadhg O'Rourke; Dylan Ruane, Donie Smith, Ciarán Lennon; Conor Cox, Daire Cregg, Diarmuid Murtagh. Subs: Colm Lavin, Patrick Gavin, Shane Cunnane, Ruaidhrí Fallon, Ronan Daly, Cian Connolly, Ultan Harney, Keith Doyle, Conor Hussey, Adam McDermott, Conor Hand.

Mayo (vs Roscommon): Colm Reape; Jack Coyne, David McBrien, Donnacha McHugh; Stephen Coen, Sam Callinan, Eoghan McLaughlin; Jack Carney, Matthew Ruane; Darren McHale, Ryan O'Donoghue, Jordan Flynn; Aidan O'Shea, Tommy Conroy, Cillian O'Connor. Subs: Rob Hennelly, Fergal Boland, Diarmuid Duffy, Enda Hession, Conor Loftus, Conor McStay, Eoin O'Donoghue, Padraig O'Hora, Michael Plunkett, Paul Towey, Bob Tuohy.