Saracens v Toulouse & Leicester v Treviso: preview

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v Toulouse
centre Joel Tomkins will start tomorrow’s Heineken Cup clash between Saracens and Toulouse on the bench as American Chris Wyles is preferred at outside centre.
The game will be the Barnet-based club’s 10th game at Wembley stadium and record crowd for a UK and Heineken Cup pool match is expected with ticket sales already in excess of 50,000.
Jacques Burger Alistair Hargreaves, Richard Wigglesworth and Duncan Taylor all come back into the starting line-up replacing Will Fraser, George Kruis, Neil de Kock and Joel Tomkins, Wyles moving from inside centre.
On the bench, new signing Marcelo Bosch is in line for his debut.
Director of Mark McCall said: “Everyone connected with the club loves playing at Wembley Stadium and it is a fantastic stage on which to perform.
“Under Guy Noves Toulouse have been, and still are, one of the most consistent sides in European rugby for more than a decade having won this competition four times. They have a very powerful squad so the size of the challenge under the lights of Wembley is clear for all to see.”
Meanwhile, Toulouse will be looking to back up their bonus-point win over to put them favourites to top the group and qualify for the quarter-finals.
Thierry Dusautoir returns the starting XV at openside whilst Yoann Maestri is in at lock and Schalk Ferreira and Census Johnston are the new props.
Maxime Medard switches to full-back with Clement Poitrenaud at inside centre with Luke McAlister and Jean-Marc Doussain forming the new half-back partnership.
Saracens: Alex Goode; , Chris Wyles, Duncan Taylor, David Strettle; Owen Farrell, Richard Wigglesworth; Mako Vunipola, Schalk Brits, Matt Stevens; Steve Borthwick (Capt.), Alistair Hargreaves; Billy Vunipola, Jacques Burger, Ernst Joubert.
Replacements: Jamie George, Rhys Gill, James Johnston, George Kruis, Kelly Brown, Neil de Kock, Marcelo Bosch, Joel Tomkins.
Toulouse: Maxime Medard; Yoann Huget, Florian Fritz, Clement Poitrenaud, Hosea Gear; Luke McAlister, Jean-Marc Doussain; Schalk Ferreira, Christopher Tolofua, Census Johnston; Yoann Maestri, Joe Tekori; Yannick Nyanga (Capt.),  Thierry Dusautoir, Gillian Galan.
Replacements: Chiliboy Ralepelle, Gurthro Steenkamp, Yohan Montes, Gregory Lamboley, Romain Millo-Chluski, Jano Vermaak, Gael Fickou, Louis Picamoles.
v Treviso

Thomas Waldrom and Graham Kitchener return to the forward pack ahead of their Pool 5 match against Treviso at Welford Road.
Back-rower Waldrom takes over from Jordan Crane while Kitchener joins Geoff Parling in the second row with Louis Deacon taking a place among the replacements.
The only other change in the line-up from the 22-16 defeat at Ulster in Round 1 sees Blaine Scully return to the backline in place of Miles Benjamin who made his first starting appearance for almost 18 months at Ravenhill last Friday.
With already one defeat, the Tigers must secure a home win if they don’t want to see themselves already out of contention for a place in the quarter-finals.
But in the same way, they’ll know how much of a banana skin the Italians can be after they scrapped to a 14-13 win in last season.

Leicester: Niall Morris; Blaine Scully, Vereniki Goneva, Dan Bowden, Adam Thompstone; Toby Flood (Capt.), Ben Youngs; Logovii Mulipola, Tom Youngs, ; Graham Kitchener, Geoff Parling; Ed Slater, Julian Salvi, Thomas Waldrom.
Replacements: Neil Briggs, Boris Stankovich, Fraser Balmain, Louis Deacon, Jordan Crane, David Mele, Owen Williams, Terrence Hepetema.
Treviso: Luke McLean; Andrea Pratichetti, Luca Morisi, Alberto Sgarbi, Christian Loamanu; Mat Berquist, Tobias Botes; Michele Rizzo, Enrico Ceccato, Lorenzo Cittadini; Antonio Pavanello (Capt.), Valerio Bernabo; Manoa Vosawai, Alessandro Zanni, Robert Barbieri.
Replacements: Franco Sbaraglini, Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet, Pedro di Santo, Marco Fuser, Dean Budd, Marco Filippucci, Fabio Semenzato, James Ambrosini.
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