Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter has named his strongest available side to face French Top 14 leaders Bordeaux-Begles on Saturday in a make or break game in the pool stages of the 2024/25 Investec Champions Cup.

Knowing Chiefs almost certainly need a win to have any chance of progressing through to the last 16 knockout round, Baxter said: “This weekend is a huge challenge. They’re a very good side, doing incredibly well within their league and within this competition. So, we know it’ll be a challenge for us, but you get in the Champions Cup for a reason. We’ve always really enjoyed being in this competition, being in the big games like this – they’re an important part of your development as a player, as a team and as a club.

“When you’re in European competition, getting points from every encounter is pretty vital. Unfortunately, we failed to do that in our first two games so there’s a bit of pressure on us now to try to achieve something.

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“We’ll be going flat out this weekend and we’ll probably be able to assess where we stand after this game as regards to what we can do within the group.

“All I can say is that we’re going to go after it. We’re going to try to play, score some points, and see if we can challenge Bordeaux to get them into the type of game we want to play rather than the type of game they’ll want to play.”

Here are all the ways you can follow all the action this weekend...

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When is the game?

Exeter Chiefs v Bordeaux Begles is being played on Saturday, January 11 at Sandy Park.

What time is kick-off?

The kick-off time is at 3.15pm UK time.

Is the game on TV or being streamed?

Yes. But another competition means another subscription service is required. All this season's Investec Champions Cup games will be shown live on Premier Sports which can either be streamed online or watched on Virgin TV, Amazon Prime or Sky Sports packages.

Today's game is being shown on Premier Sports 2, with coverage starting at 3pm.

Subscription costs from £10.99 a month, although if you sign-up for the annual subscription and use the discount code EPCR70 you can pay just £70 for the year. Sign up here.

Highlights will also be available on the Investec Champions Cup YouTube channel shortly after the game.

How else can I follow the game?

If you are not going to be inside the stadium, and even if you are, DevonLive will be live blogging the match bringing you all the build-up, team news, live play-by-play match updates, reaction, stats, analysis, interviews and highlights from inside the ground.

Will there be live radio commentary of the match?

BBC Radio Devon will also be providing live commentary of the game.

What's the team news?

Exeter Chiefs: 15. Tommy Wyatt, 14. Ben Hammersley, 13. Zack Wimbush, 12. Tamati Tua, 11. Paul Brown-Bampoe, 10. Henry Slade, 9. Stu Townsend, 1. Scott Sio, 2. Dan Frost, 3. Josh Iosefa-Scott, 4. Dafydd Jenkins (c), 5. Franco Molina, 6. Ethan Roots, 7. Jacques Vermeulen, 8. Greg Fisilau

Replacements: 16. Max Norey, 17. Will Goodrick-Clarke, 18. Jimmy Roots, 19. Rus Tuima, 20. Christ Tshiunza, 21. Tom Cairns, 22. Will Haydon-Wood, 23. Will Rigg

Union Bordeaux-Bègles: 15. Romain Buros, 14. Damian Penaud, 13. Yoram Moefana, 12. Rohan Janse van Rensburg, 11. Pablo Uberti, 10. Matthieu Jalibert, 9. Maxime Lucu (c), 1. Ugo Boniface, 2. Maxime Lamothe, 3. Carlü Sadie, 4. Guido Petti, 5. Cyril Cazeaux, 6. Lachie Swinton, 7. Temo Matiu, 8. Tevita Tatafu

Replacements: 16. Romain Latterrade, 17. Jefferson Poirot, 18. Toma Taufa, 19. Alexandre Ricard, 20. Marko Gazzotti, 21. Bastien Vergnes-Taillefer, 22. Louis Bielle-Biarrey, 23. Yann Lesgourgues

Who are the officials?

Referee: Andrew Brace (Ire)

Assistant referees: Robbie Jenkinson (Ire) and Padraic Reidy (Ire)

TMO: Olly Hodges (Ire)