Leicester Tigers head coach Geoff Parling told BBC Radio Leicester:
“I thought we did some good things, I thought we worked hard, but essentially we were too inaccurate and we failed to back up pressure moments when we had other opportunities.
“I think we turned over the ball 17 times to their 11 and in the end I think that told.
“The attack was good when we went hard and went through them first. We carried hard and cleaned out and did the basics well and that opened up gaps for Jack (van Poortvliet) and opened up gaps on the edges.
“But on the same side I thought in attack we gave the ball up too cheaply and too early and that actually hurt us.”
Saracens head coach Joe Shaw:
“The boys very calmly worked out what to do – Elliot Daly played four positions today and did very well in all of them.
“Then you get hit with the 20-minute red card at a place like this, where it’s been tit-for-tat.
“If you want to be in the top four, you’ve got to be able to keep your cool, work things out and I think in the last six or seven minutes – where we had 15 men and they had 14 men – were crucial.
“The adversity bit would be front and centre of what we’re pleased with.”
Leicester: Steward; Radwan, Kata, Woodward, Hamer-Webb; Searle, van Poortvliet (capt); Vunipola, Moli, Heyes, Carnduff, Henderson, Wainwright, Reffell, Cracknell.
Replacements: Thunder, Haffar, Hurd, Thompson, Moro, Whiteley, Bailey, Hassell-Collins.
Saracens: Daly; Elliott, Tompkins, Hartley, Segun; Burke, Williams; Mawi, Dan, Street, Itoje (capt), Tizard, Isiekwe, Gonzalez, Barbeary.
Replacements: Clarke, Brantingham, Clarey, Sodeke, Michelow, Earl, C Bracken, Malins.
Referee: Ian Tempest
