Faf de Klerk darts down a rabbit hole in search of the whitewash, but has he lost in forward in the process.

He has.

No try.

Bevan Rodd and Jono Ross are rumbling round the corner and up to within five metres of the Racing line...

Sale are asking questions inside the red zone, but spill the ball and Racing full-back Max Spring scoops and scoots. He's got wheels, but, fortunately for Sale, so has Dan du Preez.

The Sale 15 scrags his opposite number on half way and the visitors have a penalty as Racing's supporting forward are off their feet.

Katy Daley-Mclean
England's 2014 World Cup-winning captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

I think Alex Sanderson will want Sale to keep doing what they are doing.

They have to be a bit more aware of the Racing counter attack because they are making ground every time the turn over the ball.

Tom Curry gets his hair ruffled by Finn Russell as the Sale flanker gives away a penalty.

Nolann Le Garrec twists the knife with another pinpoint shot of the tee.

In the end, Sale will probably take the concession of the three.

Racing very nearly stretched the defence beyond breaking point on that fast counter attack, but in the end settle for three off the tee as Racing get the upper hand at scrum time.

Nolann Le Garrec - hugely impressive so far - with the slice of slipper.

Rob du Preez, rather than AJ McGinty, lines it up off the tee.

And the centre has screwed it wide.

Racing counter at warp speed as Nolann Le Garrec takes a smart 22m drop-out and regathers...

Faf de Klerk pinballs his way through a gauntlet of Racing tacklers and for a moment Sale look like they might have a route to the line down the left wing.

Racing close down the corridor.

But we are coming back for a penalty - Racing coming up too quickly in defence.

Katy Daley-Mclean
England's 2014 World Cup-winning captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

The set piece is going to be huge for both teams today and they will both want a stable platform.

What's interesting is how cagey both teams have started. Neither side looking like they will want to kick much and will keep ball in hand.

Sale fancy themselves in the set-piece arm-wrestle.

Racing prop Cedate Gomes Sa is pinged for an early engage. Free-kick for the visitors, who immediately opt to reform the scrum.

And this time, Sale win the penalty. It is hoofed into the corner. A line-out deep Racing territory...

This has been a been a helter skelter opening couple of minutes with Sale number eight Dan du Preez copping a big shoulder from the bull-necked Camille Chat and Racing's teenage scrum-half Nolann Le Garrec nearly scooting through a gap, only to be tap-tackled by a diving Tom Curry.

We are off and running.

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Scotland fly-half Finn Russell starts for the hosts with Juan imhoff, Teddy Thomas and Gael Fickou part of a star-studded backline. Thery will be supplied by 19-year-old scrum-half Nolann le Garrec.

Camille Chat is at hooker, while look out for Virimi Vakatawa on the bench.

Racing 92: Spring; Thomas, Fickou, Chavancy, Imhoff; Russell, Le Garrec; Kolingar, Chat, Sa, Chouzenoux, Bresler, Lauret, Diallo, Tanga

Replacements:Baubigny, Ben Arous, Nyakane, Le Roux, Pesenti, Machenaud, Gibert, Vakatawa

Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson speaking to Channel Four: "For those lads that are leaving us in the summer, we want to send them off having done them proud and leave them with a massive amount of respect. We came in yesterday to the La Defense Arena and had a game of football and Manu Tuilagi had a few words with the lads as someone who has played in these massive games before, just to calm them down."

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Tom Curry will make his first start since the Six Nations as Sale Sharks look to upset Racing 92 in the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final.

The England flanker is the only forwards change from the side that beat Bristol Bears in the last round, as Cobus Wiese drops to the bench.

Robert Du Preez partners Manu Tuilagi in the centre with Alan MacGinty starting at fly-half.

Sale Sharks:James; Roebuck, R du Preez, Tuilagi, Hammersley; MacGinty, De Klerk; Rodd, Van der Merwe, Schonert, Du Preez, De Jager, Ross, T Curry, D du Preez.

Replacements:Ashman, McIntyre, Oosthuizen, Wiese, B Curry, Warr, James, Janse van Rensburg.

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The winners of this one are playing for a shot at last year's runners-up La Rochelle after Ronan O'Gara's side rolled over fellow Top 14 powerhouses Montpellier yesterday.

The other semi-final is already set. Leinster will take on Toulouse in Dublin in another cruch meeting of European royalty.

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There is nowhere else quite like it.

La Defense Arena - more discotheque than cauldron - is host to the weekend's fourth and final quarter-final.

And for visitors Sale, there would be nowhere quite like the semi-finals.

Twice before they have reached the last eight of Europe's premier club competition, twice before they have fallen.

Third time lucky?

Let's find out.