European U-21 Championship Preview:The Republic of Ireland under-21 side have made three changes to their starting line-up for tonight's Uefa Championships qualifier against England.

Ireland boss Don Givens has brought Bristol City defender Richard Keogh, Ipswich's Billy Clarke and Stoke's Adam Rooney into the side.

The trio were missing from the line-up that beat Sweden 3-2 in a friendly clash in Uppsala on Friday. Clarke had a hip problem but has been given the all-clear.

With an English squad littered with Premier League names, Givens' counterpart Stuart Pearce will take his side into the clash at Turner's Cross carrying the favourites tag.

Names like Gabriel Agbonlahor, Theo Walcott, Steven Taylor and James Milner in the England squad are probably better known to the Irish supporters than the home players.

Much focus for Ireland will be on the performance of Sunderland's Anthony Stokes.

"If we're on our game we can beat them. That's the attitude we have to take into it," insisted the young Dubliner.

"There's no point worrying about them. It won't help us if we go into it being in awe of them.

"We took our chances when we got them against Sweden. We didn't have that many chances in the game but when they came we took them. We'll need to be the same against England."

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (Under-21 v England):Randolph (Charlton); Nolan (Blackburn), Keogh (Bristol City), O'Dea (Celtic), O'Halloran (Aston Villa), O'Brien (Celtic), Garvan (Ipswich), Quinn (Sheffield Utd), Stokes (Sunderland), Rooney (Stoke City), Clarke (Ipswich).