Video & Preview: Lansdowne v Young Munster

Young Munster make the trip to Dublin tomorrow to take on table-toppers Lansdowne on the main pitch at the Aviva Stadium with a place in the All-Ireland League final at stake.

The Cookies have hit form at just the right time with John Staunton's side racking up four successive wins to shoot up the table and into the top four.

Respective coaches Mike Ruddock and Staunton expect league form to go out the window when their teams meet in the first of the Division 1A semi-finals.

Ruddock's Lansdowne side comfortably finished top of the table, earning five more wins than fourth-placed Munsters, and they are odds-on favourites to lift their second league title in three years.

Playing at headquarters will bring back fond memories of Young Munster's glory days, and their 1993 title success in particular. Five carriage-loads of supporters are making the trip up from Limerick. "It is cup rugby from here on in," said Cookies boss Staunton, who is set to field an unchanged team. That format often brings out the best in Munster clubs – as Cork Con proved in last week's Bateman Cup decider.

Lansdowne were missing a few frontliners in their recent 15-5 defeat away to Munsters in the final round, and they will be quietly confident of reversing that result with home advantage and the return of Rising Star award winners Cian Kelleher and Tom Farrell.

The final of the Ulster Bank League is due to take place at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday, May 9 at, 1pm.

Recent League Meetings – Sunday, November 23, 2014: Lansdowne 28 Young Munster 21, Aviva Stadium back pitch; Saturday, April 11, 2015: Young Munster 15 Lansdowne 5, Tom Clifford Park

ULSTER BANK LEAGUE: Saturday, April 25

DIVISION 1A SEMI-FINAL –

Kick-off 2.30pm unless stated –

Lansdowne (1st) v Young Munster (4th), Aviva Stadium main pitch, 2.30pm

Young Munster: (15-9) S O'Leary, D McCarthy, D Goggin, G Lyons, E Carr, W Staunton, R Guerin (1-8) D Begley, G Slattery, H McGrath, T Goggin, S Duggan, A Kennedy, Y Browne, S Rennison, (16-20) L O'Halloran, P Allen, D Dee, K Hifo, E O'Keeffe