Saracens owe progress to European Champions Cup semi-finals to luck and brains after defeat of Racing Metro
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Saracens owe progress to European Champions Cup semi-finals to luck and brains after defeat of Racing Metro
Saracens did not so much get out of jail against Racing Métro in Paris on Sunday as escape, cross the border and find themselves in a neutral country without an extradition treaty.
Their last-gasp 12-11 win away from home meant they were the only one of four English teams to progress beyond the European Champions Cup quarter-finals.
Two of the English contenders were simply blown away.
Northampton Saints’ challenge foundered because of a combination of unusual torpor in their own performance and a powerful certainty in the Clermont Auvergne game.
In many ways the approach of Northam…
Their last-gasp 12-11 win away from home meant they were the only one of four English teams to progress beyond the European Champions Cup quarter-finals.
Two of the English contenders were simply blown away.
Northampton Saints’ challenge foundered because of a combination of unusual torpor in their own performance and a powerful certainty in the Clermont Auvergne game.
In many ways the approach of Northam…
