• Saracens 33-17 Ulster
• Maro Itoje had an outstanding game leaving his tacklers sprawlingHistory shows it is nearly impossible to fashion a successful international team from one club side. Warren Gatland began by picking the Ospreys en masse as his first Wales team and they won at Twickenham but in the long run the dynamic at Test level is so different and the demands on individuals and combinations so contrasting that one-club togetherness can be divisive on the grand stage.
That said,Saracens in general and seven of their number in specific – there are eight altogether in Eddie Jones’s England squad but Alex Goode was nursing a bump – played so well in the dispatch of Ulster that the case they presented before the national coach may prove irresistible. Saracens recovered from their first defeat of the season against Harlequins in the Premiership to lay Ulster low in Europe, score four tries and qualify for the quarter- finals with a game to spare.
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Source: theguardian.com