Investec Champions Cup: Northampton Saints flying over the English flag in the quarterfinals
Saints’ victory was as good as for the English teams, who collectively granted 34 attempts in their five games.
The Saracens rested the players of England Maro Itje, Elliot Daly, Jamie George, Ben Earl and Tom Willis, but took the lead in France before being Overwhelmed 72-42 for 10-Try Toulon.
Harlequins chose their internationals, including Marcus Smith in England, but they were unable to launch a blow as they were Trashed 62-0 from 10-Try Leinster A Croke Park.
Leicester’s tigers were Completed comfortably 43-19 in Glasgow in the final match on Saturday.
The Saracens left their test stars out, in accordance with the guidelines for the well -being of the Players of England, after giving priority in search of a playing place for the premiership compared to a fourth title of the Champions League Cup.
Rugby director Mark McCall has chosen to select his usual customers from England for their premiership games against Harlequins and Leicester, forcing his hand to Toulon.
Tigers’ coach Michael Cheika said that “several teams are affected by different things”, citing injuries for his side after Captain Julian Montoya, the queue on the back of Wales Tommy Reffell and England Lock Ollie Chessum have all lost the trip to Scottun.
“People are always looking for trends, but in reality you have to take every single game as it is,” said Cheika at the BBC Radio Leicester.
“The Saracens were affected by the laws of having to rest the players. We had to rest one and have injuries on the back of the six nations, but is reduced to the game day.
“There were a couple of things that were not good enough and we weren’t good enough to win.”
Sunday did not become much easier for sharks for sale while traveling to defend the samples of Toulouse, who followed halfway before closing A victory for 38-15 in the south of France.
