Tom Curry has suffered an injury scare just a day after being selected for the British and Irish Lions squad.
Curry departed during the first half of Sale’s Premiership clash with Leicester with a leg injury.
“It was a hamstring problem which will need assessing,” Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson said.
“Tom is a tough lad and he tried to run it off for 10 minutes but he had to come off as a precaution as we need to rotate our squad ahead of a difficult run-in.”
In the match Sale matched their opponents with five tries but the exemplary goal-kicking of Handre Pollard proved the difference. Ollie Hassell-Collins and Emeka Ilione both scored two tries as Leicester took a 44-34 win in a pulsating contest to make them firm favourites for a home Premiership semi-final.
Former Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll – speaking as a Howden Ambassador – believes the Lions have a ‘great opportunity’ to defeat Australia.
Leicester trailed 26-16 at one stage but their bonus-point victory takes the second-placed Tigers seven points clear of Sale with two league games remaining, one of which is a home fixture with bottom club Newcastle.
Pollard missed nothing by kicking three penalties and five conversions, with Adam Radwan also on Leicester’s try-scoring sheet.
Rob du Preez scored two of Sale’s tries with Luke Cowan-Dickie, Rekeiti Ma’asi-White and Arron Reed also crossing and George Ford converting three and adding a penalty.
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It took Sale less than two minutes to open the scoring. They won a penalty at the first scrum and from the resulting line-out Cowan-Dickie was shoved over the line.
However the response was swift as Tigers built a period of sustained pressure before a break from Pollard sent Radwan flying over for the wing’s seventh try in six games since joining the club from Newcastle.
Pollard converted and added a penalty after it was Sale’s turn to infringe at the scrum but the home side proceeded to bungle the restart.
That gave Sale an attacking platform and they made it count when Ma’asi-White ran a neat line off a well-timed pass from Du Preez to evade Freddie Steward and score.
British and Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell spoke highly of youngster Henry Pollock, who was selected despite only having one international cap.
Ford converted for Sale to lead 12-10 at the end of a hectic first quarter.
A second penalty from Pollard put his side back in front but the lead was short-lived as an elusive run from Ford split the defence to send Reed in under the posts.
Sale then suffered two blows in quick succession. First, Curry limped off to be replaced by his brother Ben, before Pollard reduced the arrears with his third penalty.
With the last move of a breathtaking first-half, Sale collected their bonus point when a pumped-up Ford sent Du Preez over before converting to leave his side with a deserved 26-16 half-time advantage.
20-year-old Henry Pollock produced the biggest cheer of the day at the British and Irish Lions squad announcement, sending the O2 arena into raptures after the Northampton star was included.
Sale began the second half strongly but crucially missed a couple of opportunities to score and they were made to pay when Hassell-Collins collected a cross-field kick from Pollard to finish in style.
Minutes later, Hassell-Collins scored his second when he latched onto a stray pass to bemuse the visitors’ defence with a mazy run to the line.
Pollard converted but Ford kicked a penalty to leave Sale trailing by just a point with 18 minutes remaining.
The game was in the balance but Sale were becoming error-prone and ill-disciplined and it cost them as Ilione finished off a driving line-out but the visitors immediately replied with a second try for Du Preez.
In the final minute, Sale lock Jonny Hill was sin-binned and Tigers took full advantage when Ilione again finished off a driving line-out to leave Sale with just a single point.
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