• Saracens 36-22 Sale
• Full-back shows magic touches for bottom club
So just the 88 points behind now. Saracens’ great escape had been turning into an interesting narrative, but recent developments in the saga that needs no introduction means they can rack up as many of these bonus-point wins as they like. It will not make any difference.
That said, when a team who do have clear-cut motivation at the other end of the table travel with a full squad to take on Saracens’ reserves and suffer a pummelling such as this – and do not be deceived by Sale’s two breakaway tries in the last 10 minutes – the suggestion is that this Saracens squad will find motivation where none should exist. Sale could have pushed deeper into the top four, but for all their eye-catching recruitment of late they would appear to remain shy of the real deal for now.
Written by Michael Aylwin at Allianz Park
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/15/saracens-sale-premiership-match-report under the title “Alex Goode’s return inspires doomed Saracens to blow Sale away”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
