Leinster will be the top seeds for the quarter-finals in the event that they win in Treviso and don’t need to worry about a reward point. Last season’s beaten finalists have named nearly their most grounded accessible side with the Lions prop Tadhg Furlong on the seat alongside Rob Kearney. Northampton are in Lyon playing for second spot and a space in the last eight as perhaps the best next in line. They have rolled out 10 improvements from the side who stammered to triumph over Treviso a weekend ago with Dan Biggar, Cobus Reinach, Owen Franks and Teimana Harrison among the players returning. Holy people may require a reward point as they have a boundlessly mediocre focuses contrast to their adversaries for the quarter-finals, Saracens and Gloucester.
Boyd’s discount changes come after he was sorry for his side’s presentation a week ago, when they recouped to guarantee triumph against Italian group Benetton.
Northampton — who are second in the Premiership — must win and need one of Ulster, Saracens or Gloucester to lose guarantee one of three other participants quarter-last spots.
Prop Alex Waller and number eight Teimana Harrison will co-skipper the side and are participated in the pack by previous New Zealand prop Owen Franks and England internationals Lewis Ludlam and Courtney Lawes.
There are nine changes for Lyon, with scrum-half Sam Hidalgo-Clyne — who has 12 tops for Scotland — called up to the beginning XV.
Line-ups
Lyon: Arnold; Mignot, Tuisova, Ngatai ©, Nakaitaci; Wisniewski, Hidalgo-Clyne; Chiocci, Alkhazashvili, Kodela, Bruni, Roodt, Cretin, Sobela, Gill.
Substitutions: Maurouard, Devisme, Yameogo, Oosthuizen, Lambey, Pelissie, Dumortier, Buttin.
Northampton Saints: Furbank; Tuala, Dingwall, Symons, Sleightholme; Biggar, Reinach; Waller ©, Haywood, Franks, Moon, Lawes, Wood, Ludlam, Harrison ©.
Substitutions: Fish, Van Wyk, Painter, Ratuniyarawa, Coles, Taylor, Hutchinson, Mallinder.
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