Sale Sharks v Exeter Chiefs - Aviva Premiership match preview
Friday 8 February 2013 22:30, UK
Image:Mark Cueto: Has scored 75 Premiership tries
Sale winger Mark Cueto will look to become the Aviva Premiership's leading try-scorer after he was recalled for Friday's visit of Exeter.
What they said...
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond
"As a management team we targeted the Scarlets and Wasps LV games as potential wins.
"We've achieved that, now we have got to do the same for the next two matches starting against Exeter Chiefs.
"We are rock bottom of the Premiership and we have got to move up the table and if we can get through the semi to a final and maybe finish 10th in the Premiership then suddenly the season won't look quite so bad. Exeter will be a big challenge for us. They are a very good side and well coached."
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter
"These are really important games now. We want to do well in this year's Premiership. We've been in the Heineken Cup this year and really enjoyed it, we'd like to be there again and that's going to depend on how well we go in the Premiership now.
"Every game is going to be very important. I'm expecting us to play like we did against Northampton (in the LV= Cup), almost as if every game is the game that matters.
"It's exciting entering these four games and where you could potentially go. That's how I want to approach it. I don't want us to be fretting about where the season might go, I want us to be excited about how far we can fire ourselves."
