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Racing look like they have given up the ghost.

They are back on their own five-metre line.

Penalty Saracens!

And the red and black shirts leap skywards. 

They know this is done.

A couple of changes to nibble down the clock.

Richard Barrington and Jim Hamilton come on for Saracens.

Paul Grayson
Ex-England fly-half on BBC Radio 5 live

"Fantastic kick from Owen Farrell, that is the acid test. Saracens have Racing at arms length and they could just over the line."

That might well be that.

Owen Farrell at his cyborg best, jeers bouncing off him as he zeros in and sends the kick sailing between the uprights.

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Racing have chopped away Maro Itoje's legs as Saracens rev up the rolling maul.

Nigel Owens doesn't miss those. Up flies the referee's arm, Farrell with a kick close in and at not much of an angle to send his side back nine clear...

Matt Dawson
2003 World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

"Saracens have been too big, too strong,  too well organised with a brilliant game plan. you can't allow for star players to be injured and Racing losing their nine, 10, 12, the heart of their side, is tough to come back from."

Racing overshoot at the line-out and George Kruis gobbles up.

Turnover ball. Owen Farrell steps and dances. He is pulled down, but Nigel Owens says that Racing have had one nibble too many at the ball on the floor.

Saracens punt the penalty deep into the Racing 22m.

Matt Dawson
2003 World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

"Racing are clueless at the moment, nothing in the tank, in the mind, they are all over the show. A nice patient seven minutes from Saracens and it is game over,"

George Kruis shuts down Remi Tales options and the Racing fly-half's kick is a dud.

The French side's chase is better though. Alex Goode is ushered into touch on halfway.

Billy Vunipola disrupts and pilfers. Chris Wyles bursts through broken field.

Racing in reverse.

Finally they stem Saracens' attack. But they have lost a lot of ground and are back deep in their own half.

That is where Saracens will want to keep them.

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A six-point margin, ten minutes to go.

This is high-wire rugby. Who can hold their nerve?

Juan Figallo has come on in the place of Petrus du Plessis to freshen up the Saracens' front row.

It has been a gruelling afternoon for those big lads at the coalface.

Former England hooker Brian Moore..

The ball dribbles free between the feet of Billy Vunipola at the back of a Saracens scrum. Mike Phillips swoops on Richard Wigglesworth but he was too fast out of the blocks.

Penalty Saracens and Owen Farrell puts a size-nine through the back of the ball to clear his lines.

Matt Dawson
2003 World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

"I am not sure how much life Racing have left, they look bedraggled and tired. They have to put everything into this but it is narrow, pick and go. Saracens know where the trouble is coming from."

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Racing are coming on strong.

Big runners around the fringes. Saracens backed up into their own 22m.

Billy Vunipola tries to turn the tide with a shuddering hit on Dimitri Szarzewski.

That has done the trick. The France hooker is caught with a car-crash of a tackle and the ball spills forward a phase later with the momentum gone.

That Racing penalty has tightened chests and trembled nerves all around the Grand Stade de Lyon.

George Kruis is pinged by Nigel Owens off the restart.

Seventeen minutes to go. Saracens need to keep their heads in the freezer for all of that.

Saracens' replacement Jackson Wray is adjudged to have come in at the side of a maul.

Johan Goosen sticks over three from straight in front and Racing are back within striking range on the scoreboard.

Paul Grayson
Ex-England fly-half on BBC Radio 5 live

"Everything is happening slowly for Racing, there is definitely a communication problem between nine and 10."