The three-time European champions lie third in their pool on six points, the same number as Brive and only a point ahead of Section Paloise, after beating London Irish 45-24 at home last Sunday.

“We’ve got a big game now coming up – obviously it's do-or-die for us, so I’m sure we’ll be super-pumped when that comes round,” Lewington said. “It’s exciting.

“It’s always a really important block for us this time of year when the boys kick on. We always have some internationals because we’re a strong team. It’s time for the rest of the squad to pull together and grind out some results and hopefully some really good performances.”

The 30-year-old felt the Round 4 success against his old club was “a really good win” after two weeks without a match.

“We’ve obviously been working hard over the last couple of weeks when we’ve not had games, so it’s nice to finally get back out there and put some of the stuff we’ve been doing in training into practice,” he explained.

“Irish have got a lot of fight – and that’s a real credit to them. Every game we play them, they’re really in it. They make life difficult for us.

“But every time we had a setback, we bounced back and worked really hard. You can see on the scoreboard we got what we deserved in the end.

“Something we’ve been working on is to try and take a few more opportunities. In previous games we have been missing a few.

“So today we were probably a bit better in that area. We were looking for the opportunities and scored a few nice tries off the back of it.”

Saracens wing Alex Lewington has promised that the Gallagher Premiership club will be “super-pumped” for their EPCR Challenge Cup Pool C decider at CA Brive in April.