Sunday's Premiership action sees Wasps seeking an eighth successive league victory in their relentless push to make the play-offs.

Having collected 31 points from a possible 35, Lawrence Dallaglio and company head to Vicarage Road for an appointment with Heineken semi-finalists Saracens.

Saracens' play-off hopes were effectively ended by a 39-15 defeat against Gloucester last time out, but the top six is an attainable target they must aim for in pursuit of Heineken qualification next season.

Saracens rugby director Alan Gaffney said: "They (Wasps) are a quality side and are still the benchmark to aim for in terms of teams in the Premiership.

"They are on a roll, there is no doubt about that, but we know what we have to do and we have discussed it at length this week.

"We are fully aware that last week's performance wasn't good enough.

"When we looked back at the video of the Ospreys Heineken Cup game, it was almost a perfect example of doing everything right - the Gloucester game was the complete opposite."

Sale Sharks, beaten by Wasps in midweek, entertain Newcastle in the day's other game when a win would keep them firmly in the title picture.

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