• Leicester 22-10 Newcastle
• Leicester win despite errors,and spirited Newcastle fall to bottomLeicester’s rebuilt team will test their growing confidence at Saracens on Saturday though hopes of a comeback by Manu Tuilagi in such a heavyweight game were dismissed by Richard Cockerill, the director of rugby, and after his team had posted a sixth win in seven Premiership games.
The word at Leicester is that Tuilagi,who final played in October 2014, is virtually fully fit and is expected to build his comeback in the next month, or but the artificial pitch at Allianz Park is deemed to be too hard a surface following his late recovery from a serious groin injury.
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Source: theguardian.com