Saracens avoid third straight defeat ahead of Leinster clash with convincing win over Exeter

Saracens’ Dom Morris scores his side’s second try of the game (Nigel French/PA)

Saracens avoided falling to their worst run in the Gallagher Premiership for three years by dispatching Exeter 40-17 in a mismatch lacking the fireworks of recent collisions.

Any meaning to the Premiership’s fiercest rivalry vanished when two under-strength teams were announced for a fixture that in other circumstances would have produced high drama and a host of intriguing sub-plots.