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Getty ImagesAll of the Champions Cup team news and line-ups for Sunday’s matches featuring sides from the English Prem can be found below as clubs tackle their third of four pool matches.
There is live radio commentary of every match on BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app – keep reading for kick-off times.
Harlequins v Stormers
Harlequins coach Jason Gilmore has made seven changes as his side aim to put their disappointing domestic form to one side against the Stormers on Sunday.
Full-back Tyrone Green returns to the team for the first time since October and Cadan Murley is back on the wing, while centre Bryn Bradley and scrum-half Lucas Friday make their first European starts.
The three changes in the pack are all in the front row as Simon Kerrod, Jack Walker and Pedro Delgado start.
Alex Dombrandt skippers the side from number eight and is joined by Chandler Cunningham-South and Jack Kenningham in the back row.
United Rugby Championship leaders the Stormers head to the Stoop in confident mood after winning their opening two European games. Experienced Springbok Damian Willemse captains the side at centre.
Harlequins: Green; David, Northmore, Bradley, Murley; Smith, Friday; Kerrod, Walker, Delgado, Petti, Kieran Treadwell, Cunningham-South, Kenningham, Dombrandt (capt).
Replacements: Turner, Hobson, H Williams, E Williams, Carr, Lawday, Green, Evans.
Stormers: Gelant; Maart, Hartzenberg, Willemse (capt), Burger; Matthee, Duvenage; Kebble, Vokozela, Porthen, Evans, Van Heerden, Nel, Dixon, Theunissen.
Replacements: Ntubeni, Matongo, Van Wyk, Groves, Mlaba, Khan, Swart, Ndhlovu.
Match officials
Referee: Nika Amashukeli (Geo)
Assistant referees: Shota Tevzadze (Geo), Amber Stamp-Dunstan (Wal)
TMO: Ben Whitehouse (Wal)
Investec Champions Cup Pool 3
Harlequins v Stormers
Sunday, 11 January at 13:00 GMT
Twickenham Stoop
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Bordeaux v Northampton
Saints director of rugby Phil Dowson makes five changes from last weekend’s big win over Harlequins.
It is the first meeting of the two sides since last season’s Champions Cup final which Bordeaux won 28-20. Both teams have earned maximum points from their opening two pool matches this season.
Craig Wright, Trevor Davison, Henry Pollock, Rory Hutchinson and Ollie Sleightholme all come into the starting line-up. Alex Mitchell and Fin Smith start in the half-backs, Tommy Freeman is at centre and George Hendy moves to full-back.
Bordeaux make seven changes from their last match with Jefferson Poirot and Adam Coleman returning, while France internationals Matthieu Jalibert, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Damian Penaud, Yoram Moefana and Cameron Woki all start.
Bordeaux: Rayasi; Penaud, Depoortere, Moefana, Bielle-Biarrey; Jalibert, Page-Relo; Poirot, Lamothe (capt), Sadie, Coleman, Cazeaux, Du Preez, Woki, Matiu.
Replacements: Barlot, Perchaud, Tameifuna, Palu, Vergnes-Taillefer, Retiere, Carbery, Janse van Rensburg.
Northampton: Hendy; Sleightholme, Freeman, Hutchinson, Todaro; Smith, Mitchell; Fischetti, Wright, Davison, Coles, Van der Mescht, Chick (capt), Pearson, Pollock.
Replacements: Smith, Iyogun, Millar-Mills, Prowse, Munga, Graham, McParland, Ramm.
Match officials
Referee: Gianluca Gnecchi (Ita)
Assistant referees: Robbie Jenkinson (Ire), Padraic Reidy (Ire)
TMO: Olly Hodges (Ire)
Investec Champions Cup Pool 4
Bordeaux v Northampton
Sunday, 11 January at 15:15 GMT
Stade Chaban-Delmas
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Saracens v Toulouse
Former England captain Owen Farrell has been named on the bench as Saracens host Toulouse in the final match of the weekend.
The 34-year-old returns to the matchday squad after recovering from a minor hamstring injury that kept him out of the loss to Leicester last weekend.
Fergus Burke continues at fly-half and captain Maro Itoje, who last started a game in November, is named in the second row.
Teenager Noah Caluori, who scored twice in the win over Clermont in round one, starts on the right wing.
Six-time European champions Toulouse suffered a surprise loss to Glasgow in round two and have named a strong team that is captained by star scrum-half Antoine Dupont.
Scotland’s Blair Kinghorn is at fly-half and Englishman Jack Willis is named on the flank – and will compete against his brother Tom in an intriguing back-row battle.
Saracens: Daly; Caluori, Lozowski, Hartley, Segun; Burke,Van Zyl; Mawi, George, Street, Itoje (capt), Tizard, McFarland, Gonzalez, Willis.
Replacements: Hadfield, Carre, Riccioni, Onyeama-Christie,Earl, Bracken, Farrell, Malins.
Toulouse: Ramos; Delibes, Costes, Chocobares, Lebel; Kinghorn, Dupont (capt); Ainu’u, Marchand, Aldegheri, Flament, Meafou, Willis, Jelonch, Roumat.
Replacements: Mauvaka, Bertrand, Mallez, Brennan, Elias, Banos, Graou, Vigneres.
Match officials
Referee: Andrea Piardi (Ita)
Assistant referees: Ru Campbell (Sco), Federico Vedovelli (Ita)
TMO: Matteo Liperini (Ita)
Investec Champions Cup Pool 1
Saracens v Toulouse
Sunday, 11 January at 17:30 GMT
StoneX Stadium
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