Team News: Ravel Morrison back for Queens Park Rangers

Ravel Morrison has returned to the Queens Park Rangers starting XI for their Championship playoff semi-final first leg against Wigan Athletic tonight.

The West Ham United loanee has sat out the Hoops' last three matches, with Harry Redknapp opting to save him for the final stage of Rangers' promotion push.

After ringing the changes for their season finale against Barnsley, Redknapp recalls three of his first-choice defenders, with Danny Simpson, Richard Dunne and Clint Hill all back in the starting XI.

Karl Henry, Coll Donaldson and Yossi Benayoun drop out of the midfield, as Junior Hoilett, Joey Barton and Morrison are recalled, with the latter tasked with supporting lone frontman Charlie Austin.

Uwe Rosler also rotated his side heavily for their last outing of the regular campaign, and only Scott Carson, Rob Kiernan and Gary Caldwell are retained from the XI that lost to Blackburn Rovers.

Marc-Antoine Fortune is preferred to Martyn Waghorn up front, while Shaun Maloney will play at the point of a five-man midfield that includes Callum McManaman and Jean Beausejour on the wings.

You can follow live commentary of the match courtesy of Sports Mole here.

Wigan: Carson; Perch, Boyce, Caldwell, Kiernan; McManaman, McArthur, Maloney, Gomez, Beausejour; Fortune Subs: Al-Habsi, McClean, Espinoza, Barnett, Maynard, Waghorn, Collison

QPR: Green; Simpson, Onuoha, Dunne, Hill; Hoilett, Barton, O'Neil, Traore; Morrison; Austin Subs: Murphy, Carroll, Yun, Doyle, Hughes, Henry, Kranjcar