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Infringement from Calum Clark leads to David Rose going to his pocket to give a yellow card. Sale try to up the tempo again with a penalty in the Saints 22m but very strong defence from the Northampton pack does not allow Sale to progress.

A great set piece from Northampton allows Lee Dickson to snipe through a big hole in the Sale defence and offload to George Pisi to go over for Northampton's third try. Stephen Myler makes no mistake with the conversion.

George North gets his first try at Franklin's Gardens for Northampton. After a long period spend on the scrum in the Sale 22 Northampton get the penalty and go through the phases to allow North to go over in the corner.

Brilliant try from Luther Burrell, Northampton's first visit to the Sale Sharks 22 leads to a try for the home side. Patience from Northampton leads to Burrell to break a couple of tackles and go over the line for the first try of the game. Stephen Myler converts the kick to make it 7-0.

Great play from Sale Sharks early on in this game, Cliff really increasing the intensity but still no points even though Sharks have so much possession in the Northampton half.

Sale Sharks get the first opportunity for points in this game with Danny Cipriani attempting a penalty from 53m out but can not convert.

David Rose the referee for tonight blows the whistle to start the first half here at Franklin's Gardens. Danny Cipriani kicks off the restart and Northampton get the first scrum of the game.

Teams for tonight's game have been confirmed, Northampton with a very strong team out to get back to winnings ways. Sale Sharks have been burdened by injuries with a number of players missing due to injury. Cipriani comes in for the injured Nick Macleod while the Sharks have also lost Dwayne Peel with a hamstring injury along with James Gaskell who fractured a metatarsal in last week's warm-up.