Kerry v Cork (24 Aug)

ALL-IRELAND QUARTER-FINAL
Venue: Croke Park. Date: Sunday, 24 August. Throw-in: 1530 BST.

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Both Kerry and Cork have named unchanged starting line-ups for Sunday's All-Ireland Football semi-final at Croke Park (1530 BST).

Injury doubts Nicholas Murphy (hamstring) and Graham Canty (foot) do not make the Cork 15 and it's not clear if they will be on the bench.

Michael Cussen and James Masters will start in Cork's central forward roles.

Kerry have made one positional switch with Tom O'Sullivan named at full-back and Marc O Se moved to corner-back.

Donnacha Walsh maintains his place at left-half forward in the Kerry team despite the claims of Eoin Brosnan.

Kerry will go into the game as favourites despite their second-half collapse against the Rebels in the Munster final.

The Kingdom regrouped to beat Monaghan in the qualifiers and then produced a terrific display to beat Galway in a classic quarter-final at headquarters.

However, Cork will feel that they are a better team than both Monaghan and Galway and they are unlikely to have any inferiority complex against Pat O'Shea's side.

Granted, Cork will need to raise their game massively from their struggling win over Kildare but they are capable of doing just that.

They will also surely be motivated to do themselves justice at headquarters after their poor display against the Kingdom in last year's All-Ireland decider.

However, it's hard to back against any Kingdom side which reaches this stage of the All-Ireland Championship.

Kerry are aiming for a three-in-a-row this year but they should still have plenty of motivation to respond to the many pundits who still don't mark this team as one of the Kingdom's finest.

Kerry get the vote.

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Cork: A Quirke; D Duggan, D Kavanagh, A Lynch; B O'Regan, G Spillane, K O'Connor; P O'Neill, A O'Connor; D O'Connor, J Masters, S O'Brien; D Goulding, M Cussen, J Hayes.

Kerry: D Murphy; M Ó Sé, T O'Sullivan, P Reidy; T Ó Sé, A O'Mahony, K Young; D Ó Sé, S Scanlon; B Sheehan, C Cooper, D Walsh; D O'Sullivan, K Donaghy, T Walsh.