Matt Dawson
England World Cup winner on BBC Radio 5 live

As much as Clermont are defending admirably, they are hanging on by their fingertips in this game at the moment.

Saracens need a score.

Saracens rock solid in the scrum on the Clermont 22m. Big Billy picks goes and inevitably makes yards.

Maro Itoje and Michael Rhodes with a couple of big boshes with ball in hand.

Fifteen metres out.

Battering ram replaced by scalpel. But Alex Goode's weaving run heads up a cul-de-sac before his pass drifts into touch.

Saracens have had the upper hand, but not made it count on the scoreboard yet.

It has been everything we wanted so far.

An absorbing ding-donger of a final, both sides out of the traps like rabid dogs.

Billy Vunipola has a couple of good moments for Saracens, flattening Peceli Yato as he comes off the back of a scrum, before claiming a good aerial ball.

Clermont get their paws on the ball and show their class. 

Scott Spedding comes barrelling through a hole in the Sarries defence before flanker Peceli Yato gallops down the wing.

Saracens snuff out the danger but that was the first glimpse of free-range and roaming Clermont.

Fitz Lee is pinged for a stiff-arm tackle that is high on Brad Barritt. Owen Farrell boots down into the Clermont 22m, but the French side pile men into the breakdown and catch Sarries undermanned.

Another turnover. 

French backs slapped all around.

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

The wind has completely switched from last night and it looks as if it's into the face of the Saracens team.

Sterling work by Clermont in defence.

It was a superb corner-flagging tackle from Nick Abendanon to snare Chris Ashton as the Saracens wing pins his ears back.

Fritz Lee clamps down over the top of the breakdown to secure the turnover.

And Aurelien Rougerie hoofs clear...

It was Rougerie who was at fault when Marcelo Bosch skipped free earlier in the piece though.

Thirty-six years on the clock and counting...

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Marcelo Bosch slices through, offloads to Chris Ashton, for the corner!

Nope, hauled down just short.

But Saracens are still knocking on the door...

What a start.

Nigel Owens is on whistle duty for this one. We are in safe hands.

Camille Lopez will kick off for Auvergne as they go in search of that elusive European title...

We are under way.

Lewis Wright: After backing Stade to the hilt yesterday to see the Saints keep their Challenge Cup hopes alive, back 100% behind the English today.

BBC Sport's Patrick Gearey: After a dreich morning the sun's shining on Murrayfield, reflecting on all the foil flags. Can Saracens join the greats?

Dreich is a Scottish word which means dreary, just in case it threw you.

Saracens complete their final flexes and back slaps in the dressing rooms.

Aurelien Rougerie is doing the rounds in the Clermont hutch, rallying his troops.

It is quite the scene that awaits the players out on the Murrayfield baize.

The stands are fluttering with flags, mainly blue and yellow. The pitch is a carpet.

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Clermont have had a frankly rancid run in major finals.

Fourteen times they have got to the final of the French Championships or Europe's top trophy.

Thirteen times they have been ended up as runners-up.

They lost to fellow French side Toulon in both 2013 and 2015.

But head coach Franck Azema insists that is a tradition to be proud of rather than an albatross to fear.

"We are very proud of what we have done in the past and our ability to get to finals, and to win titles and lose titles as well," he said.

"But we have the opportunity to write a new chapter. Not to erase the history but simply to write something new."

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These Saracens boys don't do soundbites and stonewalling.

Put a microphone in front of them and they will inevitably say something interesting, intriguing and enlightening.

Maro Itoje is the subject of a big splashy feature in the Times magazine today., external He was asked what international rugby has revealed to him about Englishness. 

“If you think about it national identities are all really social constructs, one way or another," he said. 

"But I feel as if it’s powerful. When you talk about national pride, or playing for your families, or something that is a bit more than yourself, you do tend to get a greater response from the players.”  

One smart cookie.

Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson collate their thoughts before the off.

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Clermont have named an unchanged side from last month's semi-final victory over Leinster.

David Strettle starts against his old side, with another former England international, Nick Abendanon, on the opposite wing.

Thirty-six year-old living club legend Aurelien Rougerie is in the centres with a cosmopolitan and highly effective back row consisting of Frenchman Damien Chouly, Fiji's Perceli Yato and Samoa's Fritz Lee.

Clermont Auvergne: Spedding, Strettle, Rougerie, Lamerat, Abendanon, Lopez, Parra, Chaume, Kayser, Zirakashvili, Iturria, Vahaamahina, Chouly, Yato, Lee.

Replacements: Ulugia, Falgoux, Jarvis, Jedrasiak, Lapandry, Radosavljevic, Fernandez, Penaud.

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Wing Sean Maitland is missing for Saracens after suffering ankle ligament damage. Chris Wyles, who scored a pivotal try against Munster in the semi-final, is in his place.

All six of Saracens' British & Irish Lions squad members will start with Billy Vunipola at eight behind a second-row axis of George Kruis and Maro Itoje.

Michael Rhodes, the club's player of the season, starts at blind-side flanker.

Saracens: Goode, Ashton, Bosch, Barritt, Wyles, Farrell, Wigglesworth, M Vunipola, George, Koch, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes, Wray, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Brits, Lamositele, Du Plessis, Hamilton, Burger, Spencer, Lozowski, Taylor.

Former Springboks captain John Smit played one season at Clermont and two at Saracens.

Chris Jones
BBC rugby reporter at Murrayfield

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"Maro Itoje described the Clermont fans as "crazy" when he spoke to us in the week, and they are living up to their billing; Murrayfield is slowly turning yellow and blue.

"But Saracens won't mind this; they relish hostile environments, as shown when they took Munster apart in Dublin in the semi-final."

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