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Premiership guide: Exeter seek revenge on Harlequins as Gloucester hunt rare away win against Saracens

Matt Cotton with the must-know details for this weekend’s Gallagher Premiership clashes, plus Jess Hayden with the news and fixtures from the Allianz Premier 15s

Saracens’s Lozowski has impressed since his return from Montpellier
Saracens’s Lozowski has impressed since his return from Montpellier
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The Times

Saturday
Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs
TV 3pm, BT Sport 2

My oh my, how a fixture can change from one season to the next. Twickenham Stoop raised the curtain last season as then-defending champions Exeter ran riot, winning 33-3 thanks to a hat-trick from Sam Simmonds. Now, this is a revenge mission 196 days in the making for the Chiefs.

The visitors have not been the same since they were stunned by Harlequins in the final. They have seemed to lack motivation, confidence and come into this game chasing the top four, rather than being at the head of the table. That is almost entirely down to Quins.

The champions were forced to resort to the tough stuff at Kingsholm but came away with the