French international scrum-half Jean-Baptiste Elissalde will start at scrum-half when Top 14 leaders Toulouse host Tigers this Sunday (kick-off 3pm GMT).
Elissalde replaces All Black No9 Byron Kelleher, who drops to the bench.
Elissalde replaces All Black No9 Byron Kelleher, who drops to the bench.
Argentinean prop Omar Hasan, who is well-known to Tigers head coach Marcelo Loffreda from his time with the Pumas, replaces Jean-Baptiste Poux, with Italian international Salvatore Perugini taking Hasan’s place among the replacements.
Toulouse
15 C Poitrenaud
14 V Clerc
13 Y Jauzion
12 F Fritz
11 C Heymans
10 V Courrent
9 J Elissalde
1 D Human
2 W Servat
3 O Hasan
4 F Pelous (captain)
5 P Albacete
6 Y Nyanga
7 T Dusatoir
8 S Sowerby
Replacements
16 V Lacombe
17 Salvatore Perugini
18 R Millo-Chlusky
19 G Lamboley
20 B Kelleher
21 M Kunavor
22 M Medard