AVIVA PREMIERSHIP
Venue: Vicarage Road Date: Sunday, 24 April Kick-off: 1330 BST
Coverage: Listen live on the BBC Sport website.
Saracens make two changes to the side that saw off Exeter Chiefs last week.
Captain Steve Borthwick returns after recovering from a shoulder injury and scrum-half Neil de Kock is back after a hamstring problem.
Gloucester will be buoyed by the return of Kingsholm favourite James Simpson-Daniel on the wing after 10 weeks out.
Tom Voyce starts at full-back with Freddie Burns at fly-half, Jim Hamilton is back in the second row and Brett Deacon returns to skipper the side.
Gloucester head coach Bryan Redpath told BBC Radio Gloucestershire :
“We knew how tough these three games were going to be and the key thing is no-one feels sorry for themselves. That’s what high level rugby is.
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“I require a level of honesty from players who are willing to go that extra yard even if they are tired. The key thing is that everyone going to Saracens goes down with a mindset that they’ve got to be mentally strong to get a performance, that’s hugely important. If they do that then potentially we’ll get a really good result.
“Whether that wins us the game I don’t know. It will be a tough order for us, but we’ve got nothing to lose.”
Saracens: Goode; Strettle, Wyles, Barritt, Short; Farrell, De Kock; Stevens, Brits, Nieto; Borthwick (capt), Botha; Brown, Burger, Joubert.
Replacements: George, Gill, du Plessis, Vyvyan, Saull, Wigglesworth, Penney, Cato.
Gloucester: Voyce; Sharples, Trinder, Fuimaono-Sapolu, Simpson-Daniel; Burns, Lewis; Dickinson, S Lawson, Harden; James, Hamilton; Strokosch, Hazell, Deacon (capt).
Replacements: Azam, Wood, Doran-Jones, Brown, Narraway, R Lawson, Mills, Molenaar.
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Saracens v Gloucester (Sun)