George Skivington Keeps Gloucester Vs Sale Focused on Four-Round Chase

Gloucester vs Sale lands with both clubs chasing back-to-back Prem wins for the first time this season, and the stakes are tighter with four rounds left. Gloucester are seven points behind Sale in the table, which keeps this meeting live in the race for the top four.

Skivington Sticks With Gloucester

George Skivington kept almost the same Gloucester line-up after the win against Exeter. Seb Blake returned after missing that victory, while Lewis Ludlow dropped out with injury and James Venter came into the back row.

Gloucester need the points more than style points. They sit seven behind Sale, and with only four rounds remaining there is little room to waste a home game against a side above them.

Sale Make Four Changes

Sale also come in off a win, having beaten Harlequins in their last game, but they altered four players in their starting XV. Joe Carpenter started at full-back, Marius Louw moved into the centre and Hyron Andrews joined a shuffled forward pack.

Rob du Preez missed out with a hamstring injury, ending his run of 88 consecutive Prem starts. That absence is the sharpest change in Sale's selection and removes one of the few constants from a side trying to keep its place ahead of Gloucester.

Prem Race Tightens

The table squeeze is the pressure point in this fixture. Only seven points separate fourth and sixth, so the gap between a solid win and a damaging slip is small, and both clubs are looking to stack a second straight league victory for the first time this season.

That makes the next result less about momentum talk and more about position. Gloucester can cut into the deficit with a win, while Sale can protect the space they have built and keep the chase behind them from tightening further.