Andrews included in Dublin team

Dublin manager Jim Gavin has made one personnel change to his team for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Kerry at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Paddy Andrews has been drafted back in at full-forward with 2011 All-Ireland winning captain Bryan Cullen, a late inclusion for the 1-16 to 0-14 quarter-final win over Cork, the player to make way.

That means there is no starting place for either Eoghan O'Gara or Dean Rock, the latter having scored 0-8 as an impact substitute so far this summer. The Ballymun Kickhams clubman was tipped to feature against Kerry having kicked two points in the closing stages against Cork.

However, there is speculation that this will not be the team that the Dubs line out with on Sunday afternoon, with one bookmaker pricing it at 'evens' that the Leinster champions will field an altered line-up come throw-in time.

Centre back Ger Brennan is hoping the Dubs can maintain their winning streak in the 2013 Championship as they look to take a step closer to a prized league and All-Ireland double.

"Kerry have set the benchmark for decades, along with the like of Tyrone and Cork and recently Donegal," said the St. Vincent's defender.

"So if you want to be the best you have to beat the best that's out there. You have to challenge yourself and you have to get the best out of yourself.

"Kerry have such a strong forward line and they're all such skillful players that I'd say they might mix it around.

"We'll just prepare for every eventuality as best as possible, but they get the ball up quite cleverly to the inside forward line.

"They have the option of high ball in or playing it in low. That's worrying as a defence because quite often a team might just have one tactic.

"I know the last day Cork hit in quite a lot of high ball and didn't seem to change it too much. I don't think Kerry will do that - they'll mix it up and keep us on our toes.

"But we won't get overly caught up with them either. There will come a time when we have to focus on ourselves as well."

DUBLIN (SFC v Kerry): Stephen Cluxton; Kevin O'Brien, Rory O'Carroll, Jonny Cooper; James McCarthy, Ger Brennan, Jack McCaffrey; Michael Darragh Macauley, Cian O'Sullivan; Paul Flynn, Ciarán Kilkenny, Diarmuid Connolly; Paul Mannion, Paddy Andrews, Bernard Brogan.