Americas quartet set for Premiership Semi

Leicester Tigers will travel to Allianz Park to take on Saracens in the first of two Aviva Premiership semi-finals slated for Saturday. Pumas loosehead Marcos Ayerza will make his 21st start of the season for Tigers in a side that features three British & Irish Lions caps in Dan Cole, Ben Youngs, and Manu Tuilagi.

Champions Cup winners Saracens have made only one change to the match day squad that defeated Racing 92 last weekend, bring veteran scrumhalf Neil de Kock on to the bench in place of Ben Spencer. US Eagles World Cup captain Chris Wyles starts on the wing, with Argentina pair Juan Figallo and Marcelo Bosch named in the reserves.

The match kicks off at 12:30pm local time (7:30am ET) and will be broadcast live on BT Sport.

SARACENS
1 Mako Vunipola 2 Schalk Brits 3 Petrus du Plessis 4 Maro Itoje 5 George Kruis 6 Michael Rhodes 7 Will Fraser 8 Billy Vunipola 9 Richard Wigglesworth 10 Owen Farrell 11 Chris Wyles 12 Brad Barritt (capt.) 13 Duncan Taylor 14 Chris Ashton 15 Alex Goode

16 Jamie George 17 Richard Barrington 18 Juan Figallo 19 Jim Hamilton 20 Jackson Wray 21 Neil de Kock 22 Charlie Hodgson 23 Marcelo Bosch

LEICESTER TIGERS
1 Marcos Ayerza 2 Harry Thacker 3 Dan Cole 4 Dominic Barrow 5 Graham Kitchener 6 Michael Fitzgerald 7 Brendon O’Connor 8 Locky McCaffrey 9 Ben Youngs 10 Owen Williams 11 Vereniki Goneva 12 Manu Tuilagi 13 Peter Betham 14 Telusa Veainu 15 Mathew Tait (capt.)

16 Leonardo Ghiraldini 17 Ellis Genge 18 Logovi’i Mulipola 19 Ed Slater 20 Will Evans 21 Jono Kitto 22 Tommy Bell 23 Adam Thompstone