Two games into the season and two wins for a remodelled Saracens team embarking on a new era. It took them a little while to get going but a notable contribution from the centre Alex Lozowski, who kicked 22 points and supplied a brilliant try assist for his speedy young winger Tobias Elliot, ultimately took the hosts away from a Sharks side undermined by a costly flurry of injuries.

Sale had been hoping for a repeat of last June’s Premiership semi-final when they shocked Sarries on their own pitch and abruptly curtailed Owen Farrell’s Saracens career but the early loss of George Ford with a quad muscle injury robbed them of their best player and a brace of last quarter tries from Elliot Daly topped off an increasingly dominant home effort to secure a late try bonus point.

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