Leicester bank on Freddie Burns after Manu Tuilagi is ruled out for season

• Leicester 25-18 Exeter

• Burns hopeful of getting back in to England reckoning

Leicester are compensating for the likelihood that Manu Tuilagi will not play again this season with an improving team which is based on defence and the goal-kicking of Freddie Burns.

After Burns kicked 20 points to help record a fifth successive Premiership win, Leicester’s director of rugby, Richard Cockerill, admitted that Tuilagi, who has not played since October due to his groin injury, was unlikely to play this season. The earliest the England centre could be up and running looks to be June when World Cup preparations start.

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