Victory will take the Gunners three points clear at the top
The club have faced criticism after letting a 3-0 lead slip against second-tier Coventry at Wembley.
Rarely in the recent past have England’s hooker stocks been more depleted. With the captain, Jamie George, as first choice and Theo Dan, his understudy at Saracens, the preferred bench man in the Six Nations, the front-line duo are respectable and balanced. Beneath them, however, there has been cause for concern.