European Champions Cup- Harlequins vs Wasps

HARLEQUINS HAS ANNOUNCED THE SQUAD TO PLAY WASPS IN ROUND 5 OF THE EUROPEAN RUGBY CHAMPIONS CUP, AT THE STOOP ON SATURDAY, KICK-OFF 19:45 (LIVE ON BT SPORT).


There are two changes to the starting team which beat Leicester Tigers last weekend.

Tom Williams starts on the wing while Will Collier, who this week re-signed with the club alongside Nick Easter, Luke Wallace, Matt Hopper, Kyle Sinckler and Karl Dickson, will play at tighthead.

Among the replacements, Nick Evans and Charlie Walker are named.

Referee: Nigel Owens
Assistant Referees: Sean Brickell & Jon Mason
TMO: Derek Bevan

Harlequins Team
15. Mike Brown
14. Marland Yarde
13. Matt Hopper
12. George Lowe
11. Tom Williams
10. Ben Botica
9. Danny Care


1. Joe Marler©
2. Joe Gray
3. Will Collier
4. Charlie Matthews
5. George Robson
6. Jack Clifford
7. Chris Robshaw
8. Nick Easter

16. Rob Buchanan
17. Mark Lambert
18. Kyle Sinckler
19. Sam Twomey
20. James Chisholm
21. Karl Dickson
22. Nick Evans
23. Charlie Walker

Wasps Team


Wasps Director of Rugby Dai Young has named his squad to take on Harlequins in Round 5 of the European Rugby Champions Cup, at The Twickenham Stoop this Saturday (KO 1945).

Tom Varndell and Christian Wade start on the wings, with Sailosi Tagicakibau unavailable for selection due to a hamstring strain. Elliot Daly starts at 13 and will be back-up scrum half as all other nines at the Club are out through injury.

Edd Shervington starts at hooker, while prop Jake Cooper-Woolley and back row Guy Thompson come onto the bench.

Going into the game, Dai Young says the aim is clear cut: “We’re just focusing on winning this game so we can take the final pool game back to the Ricoh Arena next Saturday with a realistic possibility of going through.

“We’ll leave it to others to debate permutations. In my mind, we need to win both games to reach the knock-out stages. You don’t need to be a mathematician to work out that if we win both, we’re through. It’s not going to be easy, but that’s how we’re looking at it.

“The last few games Harlequins have had the wood over us and they have deserved their victories. They played better than us on the day, but the games have been tight enough to suggest that if we play to our potential, we can get a result. If we play like we have done on a number of occasions this season, there’s no reason why can’t come away with the result, but it will need an 80 minute performance.”

Wasps Team to play Harlequins

15. Rob Miller
14. Christian Wade
13. Elliot Daly
12. Alapati Leiua
11. Tom Varndell
10. Andy Goode
9. Joe Simpson
1. Matt Mullan
2. Edd Shervington
3. Lorenzo Cittadini
4. Bradley Davies
5. Kearnan Myall
6. Ashley Johnson
7. James Haskell (C)
8. Nathan Hughes

Replacements
16. Carlo Festuccia
17. Simon McIntyre
18. Jake Cooper-Woolley
19. James Gaskell
20. Guy Thompson
21. Ben Jacobs
22. Alex Lozowski
23. Andrea Masi


Should be a good one!