Alex Sanderson\u2019s side are in a poor run of form, winning just one of their last six Gallagher Premiership encounters, leading to them dropping from first place to eighth.<\/p>\n With only five matches left of the regular season, the Sharks can ill afford any more slip ups if they are to qualify for the play-offs once again.<\/p>\n The visiting Chiefs on the other hand are well placed for a play-off push with five games to go.<\/p>\n Rob Baxter\u2019s side have picked up three wins in their last five outings, beating Newcastle Falcons last weekend to kick-start their run in.<\/p>\n A win for the Chiefs, who currently sit in fifth place, will see them climb the whole way up to second place, highlighting the competitiveness of the Gallagher Premiership this season.<\/p>\n Baxter has made seven changes to the side that picked up a bonus-point win over Newcastle Falcons last weekend, with Will Rigg in from the start after making his Premiership debut from the bench last time out.<\/p>\n The centre will be joined by experienced head Henry Slade in the middle of the park after he returned from England Six Nations duty.<\/p>\n Exeter also welcome back rising star Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, who is sure to give former Chiefs winger Tom O\u2019Flaherty a difficult afternoon in Salford.<\/p>\n The Chiefs will deploy a Welsh duo in the engine room of the scrum with Dafydd Jenkins returning to partner Christ Tshiunza.<\/p>\n Fresh from signing a new one year deal with the Sharks Luke Cowan-Dickie starts in the front-row for Sale alongside academy products Bevan Rodd and James Harper.<\/p>\n Captain Ben Curry is set to make his return from injury in the back row while Josh Beaumont continues to fill in for stricken Jonny Hill in the second row.<\/p>\n Just the one change in the Sale backline as O\u2019Flaherty comes in for Arron Reed as he looks to get one over his former side.<\/p>\n The round fourteen encounter kicks-off at 3pm at the Salford Community Stadium on Sunday and you can keep across all the action on Prost International\u2019s channels.<\/p>\n Sale Sharks XV:<\/strong><\/p>\n Replacements:\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n Exeter Chiefs XV:<\/strong><\/p>\n Replacements:<\/strong><\/p>\n Struggling Sale Sharks welcome Exeter Chiefs to the Salford Community Stadium on Sunday afternoon as they attempt to stay in the play-off mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":289295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2,607,4063],"tags":[7845,890,3218,6441,7172,2751,3069,7918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289908,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289902\/revisions\/289908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prostinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStruggling Sale Sharks welcome Exeter Chiefs to the Salford Community Stadium on Sunday afternoon as they attempt to stay in the play-off mix.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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