ALEX Sanderson, with concerns about Manu Tuilagi’s first-half exit, hailed his pack’s performance for giving his side the edge. “Our set-piece was phenomenal and that’s probably what squeezed them in terms of the penalty count,” said Sale’s DoR. “We were pretty similar in terms of metres, carries, stuff like that, so it was the set-piece that set us apart.
“It’s a focus every week and we struggled a bit early in the season with the scrum but we seem to have found some form there.”
Tuilagi went off after 42 minutes w...
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