Trailing by 10 at the break, Saracens pounced on Newcastle's sloppy discipline to turn the game around and seal a 39-31 Premiership win.
Saracens showed why they are never out of a contest, erasing a 10-point half-time deficit to beat Newcastle Red Bulls 39-31 in an English Premiership thriller.
Newcastle went into the interval in control and looked to have the match where they wanted it. But the second half told a very different story. Saracens came out sharper, hungrier and far more clinical, and they turned the pressure up from the restart.
The key factor was discipline, or the lack of it. Newcastle kept handing Saracens opportunities through penalties and infringements, and the visitors' opponents made them pay. Every error gave Saracens more territory, more momentum and more chances to punish the Red Bulls.
Newcastle refused to go quietly and kept the scoreboard tense, which made this a high-scoring contest to the end. In the end, though, Saracens' ruthlessness in the second half decided it, and the comeback has delivered a statement win.
