{"id":17591,"date":"2024-05-19T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lewis-ludlam-northampton-saints-excited-by-saracens-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T10:02:15","slug":"lewis-ludlam-northampton-saints-excited-by-saracens-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lewis-ludlam-northampton-saints-excited-by-saracens-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Ludlam: Northampton Saints &#8216;excited&#8217; by Saracens semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We lacked a bit of press in our defence, a little bit of speed in our breakdown and fine margins like that, all of a sudden the game runs away from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the prospect of taking on Saracens, who they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/68658054\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beat 41-30<\/a> at the Cinch Stadium at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens in March, the England back rower added: &#8220;They are a brilliant team, but that&#8217;s why you play the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything we do over the next two weeks has got to lead to a result [in that match].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints managed a try at the end of each half against Bath, from James Ramm and Tom Seabrook, but never really recovered from conceding twice in the early stages of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We weren&#8217;t able to put our game on the park and frankly didn&#8217;t turn up in the first part of both halves,&#8221; full-back Ramm said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be able to play that [semi-final] at home is massive for us. As a squad, we must take our learning from this but then look forward and really get excited for the next one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our training levels have been through the roof and we need to keep that going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saints or Saracens will play Bath or Sale in the Premiership final at Twickenham on Saturday, 8 June. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx00x5px835o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We lacked a bit of press in our defence, a little bit of speed in our breakdown and fine margins like that, all of a sudden the game runs away from you.&#8221; On the prospect of taking on Saracens, who they beat 41-30 at the Cinch Stadium at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens in March, the England back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17593,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions\/17593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}