Leicester’s Freddie Burns scored the decisive drop goal in the dying moments to edge the Twickenham showpiece 15-12
Sometimes a club final arouses emotions that even the grandest of Test matches cannot surpass. This was one of them,made even more special by the sight of Tom Youngs, whose wife, Tiffany, died this month, hoisting the Premiership trophy to the heavens alongside Ellis Genge. Out of darkness into the light, for all connected with Leicester and the Youngs family.
First-half tries from the South African duo of Hanro Liebenberg and Jasper Wiese were not the only reasons Saracens found themselves staring into the mirror at an uncanny likeness of their hard-nosed selves. There was a lot of kicking involved but anyone remotely familiar with both these sides could have predicted that. More significant was the manner in which Leicester took their best chances and absolutely refused to back down. Saracens’ safety-first decision to take a simple equalising penalty with four minutes left rather than going flat out for a winning try was, in retrospect, a pivotal moment.
Losing George Ford relatively early to an ankle injury also felt ominous, the fly-half going down right in front of the East Stand having eluded Aled Davies’s tackle. It was a sad way for his Tigers career to draw to a close but, with the game already showing signs of being a tightrope-walking thriller, there was no time to dwell on such things. Soon enough there was another twist, Davies being shown a yellow card for a high shot on the onrushing Julián Montoya.
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