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Team news: Tigers at Saracens

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Argentina international wing Gonzalo Camacho will make his first Aviva Premiership start for Leicester Tigers in Saturday's Round 8 match away to Saracens.Camacho made his Tigers debut as a replacement in the European win over Munster in December and will start at Allianz Park.   Mathew Tait joins Seremaia Bai at centre, with Telusa Veainu at full-back.   Tigers prop Marcos Ayerza makes his 150th appearance in Premiership Rugby, while colleague Dan Cole is in line for his 100th game in the top flight with a place among the replacements.   Owen Williams returns to the matchday squad after recovering from a knee injury suffered in the first leg of the European back-to-back games against Munster. He is joined among the replacements by wing Adam Thompstone who started the first 10 games of the season for Tigers before sitting out the Boxing Day win over Newcastle Falcons.   Leicester Tigers (v Saracens, away, Saturday 3.15pm) 15 Telusa Veainu 14 Gonzalo Camacho 13 Mathew Tait 12 Seremaia Bai 11 Vereniki Goneva 10 Freddie Burns 9 Sam Harrison 1 Marcos Ayerza 2 Harry Thacker 3 Fraser Balmain 4 Dom Barrow 5 Graham Kitchener 6 Ed Slater (c) 7 Tom Croft 8 Laurence Pearce               Replacements 16 Tom Youngs 17 Logovi’i Mulipola 18 Dan Cole 19 Mike Fitzgerald 20 Lachlan McCaffrey 21 Ben Youngs 22 Owen Williams 23 Adam Thompstone Saracens: 15 Alex Goode, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Brad Barritt (c), 11 Chris Wyles, 10 Charlie Hodgson, 9 Richard Wigglesworth; 1 Mako Vunipola, 2 Schalk Brits, 3 Petrus Du Plessis, 4 Maro Itoje, 5 George Kruis, 6 Michael Rhodes, 7 Will Fraser, 8 Billy Vunipola Replacements: 16 Jamie George, 17 Rhys Gill, 18 Titi Lamositele, 19 Jim Hamilton, 20 Jackson Wray, 21 Neil De Kock, 22 Owen Farrell, 23 Duncan Taylor