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Two quick penalties from Nick Evans and Harlequins take the lead at The Stoop. 

Northampton will have to sharpen up at the breakdown if they want to avoid giving away easy points.

An entertaining game at the Stade de France.

Tries from Virimi Vakatawa and Damien Chouly have given the hosts a narrow lead, with Sergio Parisse crossing for the Azzurri.

Sale have settled well at Welford Road and there's not been much for the home fans to shout about. 

Danny Cipriani has the first strike towards the posts but his long range effort drifts wide in the wind.

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A cheap penalty given away by Northampton as Nick Evans steps up and slots the ball through the uprights to draw his side level.

Christian Wade is back.. Or so he thought anyway.

The Wasps winger, out for three months before today, gathers Dan Robson's kick forward before darting for the line to cross.

But after going up to the TMO, the try is ruled out as Wade was offside at the kick.

All square it remains.

We're back underway at The Stoop and it's the Saints who will play against the wind in the second half. After a very open first 40 minutes, we're expecting more running rugby and plenty more scores.

We're underway at Welford Road as third-place Leicester look to cut the gap down on top two Exeter and Saracens, who face off tomorrow.

Sale, meanwhile, will be hoping to continue their unbeaten start to 2016.

BBC Radio Leicester report that Tom Youngs has not led the team out and has been replaced in the team by Leonardo Ghiraldini. That's another late change for the Tigers.

Newcastle fly-half Andy Goode gets the game back under way at the Ricoh Arena. Can we get some try action?

Cripes, Italy are 8-5 ahead in France thanks to Sergio Parisse's try.

He plucks the ball off the top of the line-out, Italy form a tight pack and push over the line.

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Sale, who are unbeaten in 2016, bring in props Ross Harrison and Vadim Cobilas, with Chris Cusiter replacing Peter Stringer at scrum-half.

Their fourth change sees Cameron Neild given his first Premiership start in the back row.

England forward Josh Beaumont captains Sale for the first time in the league.

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Replacements: Briggs, Lewis-Roberts, Mujati, Mills, Seymour, Stringer Ford, Arscott.  

Discarded England hooker Tom Youngs returns from a one-game suspension to captain Leicester Tigers.

A late change to with Telusa Veainu has been replaced on the wing by Gonzalo Camacho, with Christian Loamanu coming onto the bench. There's also a substitutes place for Sebastian de Chaves in place of Ed Slater.

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Replacements: Ghiraldini, Brugnara, Bateman, Slater, Croft, Kitto, Camacho, Roberts.  

Tito Tebaldi earns himself a yellow card just before the break for a deliberate knock-on as the referee Greg Garner brings the breathless first half to a close. Both sides came out with something to prove and we've had four first-half tries at The Stoop. Harry Mallinder and Luther Burrell causing all sorts of problems for the Quins defence but the home side are still in this one.

Newcastle finish the half on the front foot, using their forwards to push towards the tryline, but with five metres to go Falcons are penalised and Jimmy Gopperth kicks for touch.

After one final play, Dan Robson kicks the ball out and it's level at the break.

Not the greatest half of rugby you'll ever see, but the conditions might well have something to do with that.

This is the game that keeps on giving. Three minutes to go before half-time when we'll try and make sense of this first half for you. Quins meanwhile turnover the ball from the line-out and try to find some space out wide. Saints holding them at bay at the moment.

Carlo Canna had given Italy the lead in France with a drop-goal but France winger Virimi Vakatawa has scored with a classy finish on his debut to give the hosts the lead.

Probably not be a day for running rugby at Welford Road either...

The game at the Twickenham Stoop sounds fantastic, doesn't it?

At the Ricoh Arena we've barely had a sniff of a try if I'm being honest. 

Christian Wade does have a chip and run for Wasps, but the visitors clear the danger.

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