What a chance! Gormley surges through the middle after an incisive pass from Curran and finds himself one-on-one with Carroll. You would have expected the net to bulge but the Linfield stopper makes himself as big as possible to block Gormley's effort.

That's two very presentable opportunities the striker has passed up.

The momentum has been sucked out of Cliftonville after that goal and the injury to Cosgrove. There have been a couple of crosses into the Linfield box in the last five minutes, but their defence has had no problem clearing any potential danger. After a bright start it just looks as though the home side are lacking a few ideas up front.

Not much to report so far. It's been an even match with precious little goal-scoring chances.

Tomas Cosgrove's day is over after a nasty clash of heads. Hopefully it's not as serious as it first looked. As soon as Cosgrove hit the ground, Mulgrew signalled to the bench for treatment. He's been stretchered off and Jamie Harney has come on to replace him.

The visitors are bossing possession and pressing for the opener but they have failed to seriously trouble Sky Blues keeper Conor Brennan. United pose a threat on their occasional breaks while tempers have frayed in the last few minutes - proper order for a derby surely!

Gormley gets his first clear-cut chance of the afternoon. Rory Donnelly did really well on the right, getting the better of Haughey before firing a low cross to the striker, who blazed it well over the bar from 12 yards.

That should have been on target.

Really good contest at Solitude. Lavery charges forward for the Reds before finding Gormley. However, Robert Garrett immediately wins the ball off the striker and is then fouled. Really impressive display of ball-winning in midfield from the Linfield man. After a slow start, the Blues really look tuned in.

Jordan Stewart becomes the first player to pick up a booking after cynically tugging at Liam Bagnall's shirt after the Reds man had nicked possession and looked to counter.

A poor finish from Bannsiders striker Eoin Bradley. A nice one-two with Brad Lyons gives him space 14 yards but he gets it all wrong by firing the ball almost as high as the nearby Slemish Mountain!

Linfield haven't turned up yet. A slack pass to the wing is intercepted by Tomas Cosgrove, who motors up the right flank and clips it to Gormley. The striker shimmies to the left and tries a looping left-footed volley, but it's just too high.

Barry Gray will be pleased with this start.

First promising sequence of passes put together by the home side as Levi Ives surges forward and finds Joe Gormley. He lays it off to Jude Winchester, who shapes to shoot before slotting it back to the striker. But it's strong defending from Linfield, who clear it for a corner.

Cliftonville have started well.

Just a couple of minutes played and both teams have already threatened - United let the ball bounce in their box and a mix-up led to keeper Conor Brennan punching out with the ball luckily falling to a Sky Blues team-mate. Seconds later and the Bannsiders clear off the line after a shot comes in from a corner.

We're under way at Solitude. Cliftonville have a free-kick in a promising position but it comes to nothing.

Gavin Dykes makes one change from the defeat to Ballymena last week, with Shane McGinty coming in for Niall Owens.

Four changes for Ards as Adam McAleenan, Guillame Keke, David Elebert and Gareth Tommons replace Callum Byers, Nathan Hanley, Michael McLellan and David McAllister.

Town boss Matthew Tipton makes one switch with Stephen Moan coming in for Jordan Lyttle. Two changes for the the visitors - Denver Gage and Gavin Taggart make way for Paddy McNally and Mark Clarke.

Ballymena boss David Jeffrey has warm words of praise for the job his Coleraine counterpart Oran Kearney and assistant William Murphy are doing.

Of course they learned from the best - Kearney and Murphy played under Jeffrey during his trophy-laden years as manager of Linfield.

Both side make one change for the derby at Warden Street. United bring in Conor McCloskey for Kyle Owens while the pacesetting Bannsiders replace the suspended Josh Owens with Ian Parkhill.