Wyles, Bosch and Figallo are English Champions

Americas players Chris Wyles, Marcelo Bosch and Juan Figallo are English champions, having been a part of Saracens’ 28-20 Aviva Premiership Final victory over the Exeter Chiefs this afternoon.

As was the case in last weekend’s Semi Final former USA Eagles captain Chris Wyles was at the forefront of the success. The winger from Connecticut scored the second of Saracens’ two first half tries, putting the team in a comfortable half time position.

The Exeter Chiefs had a far better second half showing as they decreased Saracens’ 20-point advantage into three points in the final ten minutes. A late try set-up by Bosch saw Alex Goode sealing the result minutes from full-time.

The win gave Saracens the European – English double. The London-based club are now both the European Champions Cup and Aviva Premiership champions. In doing so the club is England’s first to do so since the Wasps in 2004.

None of Wyles, Bosch or Figallo will be playing in the upcoming June Internationals. Instead both Wyles and Bosch have announced their international retirements while Figallo is out of consideration as Daniel Hourcade will exclusively be selecting players based at home. The exception being Tomás Cubelli of the Brumbies.

SARACENS 28
Try: Taylor, Wyles, Goode
Conversion: Farrell (2)
Penalty: Farrell (3)

EXETER CHIEFS 20
Try: Hepburn, Nowell
Conversion: Steenson (2)
Penalty: Steenson (2)

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

Replacements: 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

Exeter Chiefs
15 Phil Dollman, 14 Jack Nowell, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Ian Whitten, 11 Olly Woodburn, 10 Gareth Steenson (capt.), 9 Will Chudley, 8 Don Armand, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Dave Ewers, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Mitch Lees, 3 Harry Williams, 2 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 1 Ben Moon

Replacements: 16 Jack Yeandle, 17 Alec Hepburn, 18 Tomas Francis, 19 Damian Welch, 20 Kai Horstmann, 21 Dave Lewis, 22 Michele Campagnaro, 23 James Short