Feyi-Waboso Out for Exeter Vs Saracens After Facial Surgery

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso will miss exeter vs saracens on Saturday after surgery on a facial injury. Exeter's final regular-season Premiership game now carries added weight because Saracens can take their place in the end-of-season play-offs with a win.

The 23-year-old came off with 12 minutes to go in Exeter's win at Leicester last week. He was hurt in that match and has since undergone surgery.

Exeter and England plan

Exeter said: "After extensive monitoring by the Chiefs medical team and investigative scans, a decision has been made in partnership with England Rugby for Feyi-Waboso to undergo surgery." That leaves the Chiefs without one of their England players for a game that can reshape the play-off picture at their expense.

England's medical staff are confident he will be fit for the meeting with South Africa on 4 July. The same player had already missed the Six Nations after a hamstring injury while training with England in early February, and he also sat out the second half of last season because of a shoulder injury.

Saracens pressure on Exeter

Saturday is the line that separates the regular season from the play-offs for both clubs. If Saracens win, they go through at Exeter's expense, and that makes the loss of Feyi-Waboso more than a simple absence in the back line.

England may still decide whether to risk him in a warm-up fixture against a France XV on 18 June, but Exeter's immediate problem is more direct: they must finish their final league match without a winger who has already been through surgery and another stop-start injury run. The pressure now sits on the result, not the recovery timetable.