Sale v Montauban: Teams

Sale will be without Andrew Sheridan and Mathew Tait for the visit of Montauban in the Heineken Cup.

Sheridan has not played since suffering a problem with his neck against Australia, while Tait picked up a knock in the 27-13 win over Leicester.

Andy Tuilagi replaces Tait in the centres, Lionel Faure will continue in the No.1 shirt.

Sale also welcome Wales scum-half Dwayne Peel back to the starting XV, with Richard Wigglesworth dropping to the bench.

Sale go into the game on the back of a good run of form in the league, and director of rugby Philippe Saint Andre is confident that from can continue.

Tough

"We have had two good results, back to back, with wins over Wasps and Leicester and we are now keen to do well against Montauban tomorrow evening and next week in the return game," said Saint Andre.

"Although we lost to Munster we picked up a valuable win and bonus point with our win in Clermont and we are looking to qualify for the quarter-final stages. It will be tough though as Montauban ran both Munster and Clermont very close and we are expecting a very physical game tomorrow."

Meanwhile, Montauban have rested a number of their top players. Fijian try-scoring machine Vilimoni Delasau will not make the journey to England, nor will lock Karim Ghezal or loose forward Marc Raynaud.

Stalwart full-back Fabien Fortassin will sit on the bench while hooker Grégory Arganese will play his first match of the season after recovering from a shoulder operation.

Scottish international lock Scott Murray will lead the side.

Sale: 15 Rory Lamont, 14 Mark Cueto, 13 Andy Tuilagi, 12 Luke McAlister, 11 David Doherty, 10 Charlie Hodgson, 9 Dwayne Peel, 8 Juan Manuel Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Neil Briggs, 6 Jason White, 5 Dean Schofield, 4 Sebastien Chabal, 3 Eifion Roberts, 2 Marc Jones, 1 Lionel Faure.
Replacements: 16 Andrew Sheridan, 17 Stuart Turner, 18 Brent Cockbain, 19 Carl Fearns, 20 Richard Wigglesworth, 21 Chris Bell, 22 Mathew Tait.

Montauban: 15 Johan Dalla Riva, 14 Adrien Figueiredo, 13 Miguel Avramovic, 12 Shannon Paku, 11 Jean Emmanuel Cassin, 10 Cédric Rosalen, 9 Fabrice Culinat, 8 Fabrice Soldan, 7 Matthew Clarkin, 6 Antoine Battut, 5 Rowan Frost, 4 Scott Murray (c), 3 Nick Adams, 2 Grégory Arganese, 1 Laurent DelBoulbes
Replacements: 16 Brice Mach, 17 Bogdan Balan, 18 Benjamin Sa, 19 Matthias Rolland, 20 Ibrahim Diarra, 21 Sylvain Jonnet, 22 Fabien Fortassin.