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• Saracens, Saints, Gloucester, Glasgow and Ulster can progress • Exeter can seal home quarter-final, Gloucester go to Toulouse
Leinster will be the top seeds for the quarter-finals if they win in Treviso and don’t have to fret about a bonus point. Last season’s beaten finalists have named almost their strongest available side with the Lions prop Tadhg Furlong on the bench along with Rob Kearney. Northampton are in Lyon playing for second place and a slot in the last eight as one of the best runners-up. They have made 10 changes from the side who stuttered to victory over Treviso last weekend with Dan Biggar, Cobus Reinach, Owen Franks and Teimana Harrison among the players returning. Saints may need a bonus point as they have a vastly inferior points difference to their rivals for the quarter-finals, Saracens and Gloucester. Continue reading...