Saracens 33-22 Sale: Alex Goode stars as Sarries maintain winning run

Alex Goode dived implicit to people Saracens' opening try

Alex Goode marked his record-breaking 339th crippled with a 12-point haul arsenic leaders Saracens held disconnected Sale to marque it 7 Premiership wins from seven.

Goode, 34, added 2 conversions and a punishment arsenic the location broadside fought backmost to overturn a 15-5 deficit.

That maintained Saracens' faultless grounds and took them 10 points clear.

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Sale seized the inaugural successful the opening 20 minutes, with the hosts mostly penned wrong their ain 22, and Tom O'Flaherty had an aboriginal effort chalked disconnected erstwhile tv replays showed a guardant pass.

Ben Curry made the breakthrough successful the 5th minute, taking the shot implicit disconnected the backmost of a maul, but Saracens responded instantly with Goode bursting done a spread and racing crossed the line.

However, Saracens struggled astatine the breakdown, with Rob du Preez slotting a regular three-pointer earlier a punishment effort - awarded erstwhile backmost enactment Ben Earl was yellow-carded for collapsing a maul - stretched the Sharks' vantage to 15-5.

But the league leaders battled back, with Elliot Daly nailing a 45-yard punishment earlier Theo McFarland scythed done the Sale defence to score, and 2 palmy kicks by Goode edged his broadside successful beforehand astatine the interval.

Goode acceptable up Earl to scamper done for a effort soon aft the turnaround and, erstwhile Daly struck different long-range punishment to marque it 26-15, Saracens appeared to beryllium coasting.

With some Daly and Nick Tompkins sin-binned, though, they had to withstand sustained unit and Sale thought they had reduced the shortage done Tommy Taylor - lone for his people to beryllium disallowed for a treble movement.

Joe Carpenter gave the Sharks renewed anticipation with 20 minutes to go, forcing his mode implicit successful the country for a converted people and they continued to predominate the scrum, adjacent erstwhile Saracens had returned to afloat strength.

But the location defence held steadfast and Tompkins pounced connected Goode's grubber footwear 5 minutes from clip to gain Saracens immoderate breathing abstraction and clinch a four-try bonus constituent successful the process.

Saracens: Goode; Lewington, Lozowski, Tompkins, Daly; M Vunipola, Van Zyl; Mawi, Dan, Judge, Hunter-Hill, McFarland, Christie, Earl, Wray.

Replacements: Lewis, Flynn, Riccioni, Kitchener, Knight, De Haas, Hallett, Maitland.

Sale: Carpenter; Reed, S James, S Hill, O'Flaherty; R du Preez, Warr; McIntyre, Taylor, Schonert, Wiese, Beaumont, Ross, B Curry, D du Preez.

Replacements: Ashman, Harrison, Harper, Postlethwaite, Dugdale, Simpson, Curtis, McGuigan.

Referee: Wayne Barnes.

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