Summary

  • Kick-off: 15:00 BST

  • Use audio icon to listen to BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentary

  • Leinster on 25-match winning run

  • Winners to face either Clermont Auvergne or Racing 92 in the last four.

  1. Postpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Saracens are first out of the dressing room corridor and onto the pitch, Billy Vunipola with a swagger like a wild west gunslinger.

    Kick-off is moments away.

  2. Listen inpublished at 14:59 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    You can listen to live radio commentary of this match with a quick click or tap at the top of the page.

    Sara Orchard and Paul Grayson are lurking behind the play button to fill you in.

  3. 'Completely different set-up'published at 14:57 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Paul Grayson
    Former England fly-half on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    This game has almost got derby status with the encounters they have had. In last year's final, Saracens had a squad capable of grabbing the European Cup by the scruff of the neck and totally dominating.

    It’s a completely different set-up today with the squad they have got.

  4. Farrell on the touchlines and out of actionpublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Owen FarrellImage source, Getty Images

    Of course, this guy is also missing.

    Owen Farrell is serving a five-match ban for wiping out Wasps' Charlie Atkinson with a eyesore of a high tackle.

  5. Star-shorn Saracenspublished at 14:48 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    SaracensImage source, Getty Images

    Saracens may held onto more of their stars than many thought when their relegation to the Championships was announced, but they are still light of six starters from these teams' meeting in last season's final.

    Liam Williams is back at Scarlets, Alex Lozowski is on loan at Montpellier where prop Titi Lamositele has ended up on a permanent deal, Ben Spencer has gone to Bath, George Kruis is en route to Japan and Will Skelton is at La Rochelle.

    It is perhaps the bench where you feel the stress of Saracens' situation most keenly...

    Where in 2019 they were calling on Nick Isiekwe, they have Callum Hunter-Hill covering second row. Richard Wigglesworth was the scrum-half sub, today it is some-time Wales nine Aled Davies. Schalk Burger, Nick Tompkins and David Strettle brought experience and guile that it is harder to see in Calum Clark, Manu Vunipola and Dom Morris.

  6. Team newspublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    MaroImage source, Getty

    Saracens' Mako Vunipola has recovered from a back spasm, while scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth is also fit again.

    Full-back Alex Goode moves to fly-half to fill in for the banned Owen Farrell.

    England back Elliot Daly takes over at full-back in place of Goode with Alex Lewington and Scotland's Sean Maitland completing the back three.

    Saracens:Daly; Lewington, Taylor, Barritt (capt), Maitland; Goode, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, George, Koch; Itoje, Swinson; Rhodes, Wray, B Vunipola.

    Replacements:Woolstencroft, Barrington, Clarey, Hunter-Hill, Clark, Davies, M Vunipola, Morris.

  7. Team newspublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Johnny SextonImage source, Getty Images

    British and Irish Lions fly-half Johnny Sexton will start Leinster's Champions Cup quarter-final against Saracens.

    Sexton started last week's Pro14 final win over Ulster on the bench but is back in the starting line-up - as are scrum-half Luke McGrath, hooker Sean Cronin and flanker Will Connors.

    Josh van der Flier is on the bench.

    Leinster: Larmour; Keenan, Ringrose (capt), Henshaw, Lowe; Sexton (capt) McGrath; Healy, Cronin, Porter; Toner, Ryan; Doris, Connors, Conan.

    Replacements: R Kelleher, E Byrne, Bent, Baird, Van der Flier, Gibson-Park, R Byrne, O'Loughlin.

  8. 25 straight wins and counting...published at 14:37 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    LeinsterImage source, Getty Images

    Since Leinster lost to Saracens in Newcastle in the final of last season's competition on 11 May, they have racked up 25 straight victories.

    Last weekend, they rested key players and still had enought to win their third straight Pro14 title. They are top seeds in the quarter-finals after sweeping through the pool stages with six victories out of six. And the all-knowing bookies make them hot favourites to go one better than they did last year.

  9. Going down with a final fight?published at 14:32 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Maro ItojeImage source, Getty Images

    Is this really an era-ending season for Saracens? The death of a dynasty?

    Winners of three of the last four Champions Cups, champions in four of the last five domestic campaigns, they will win neither next season.

    Financial sleigh-of-hand has been punished with relegation to the Championship and no European rugby for at least two years.

    This tournament is their only chance to crown ther period of unprecedented dominance with another pot on the pile.

    If they are to snatch silverware on their way through the trapdoor, this might be the biggest obstacle they have to overcome...

  10. 'This is it'published at 14:29 British Summer Time 19 September 2020

    Chicago BullsImage source, Getty Images

    "It's our first official meeting as a team. Get the team handbook. Laminated on the front page: Last Dance.

    "I talked to the players about, particularly, how important it was for us to really be together in this last run that we were going to have.

    "That whole meeting was enjoy what's happening because this is it."