Munster face D-Day at Sarries

The outcome of the lunchtime clash with last year’s beaten finalists Saracens on their all-weather pitch on Saturday, January 17 will decided Munster’s fate in the European Champions Cup.

Munster will travel in the knowledge that the reward for a positive result would be a Thomond Park crunch clash with Sale Sharks back in Thomond Park on Sunday, January 25, kicking off at 3.15pm , the same time as Clermont Auvergne and Saracens get underway in Clermont.

Leinster resume with a comfortable enough looking home tie against Castres on January 17 with a 5.30pm kick-off at the RDS. Then the following Saturday, January 24, they play Wasps. Like Munster, they also probably need nine points from their two games to make the quarter-finals.