James Lowe: England win can inspire Tigers against Leinster

James Lowe reckons Leicester Tigers' England contingent will be able to draw inspiration from their victory against Ireland ahead of Saturday's Investec Champions Cup clash with Leinster.

Three Tigers forwards, Dan Cole, George Martin and Ollie Chessum, started England's 23-22 win at Twickenham last month that ended Ireland's back-to-back Grand Slam hopes.

Two more, Joe Heyes and Freddie Steward, were in the championship squad and the Premiership side will arrive to the Aviva Stadium for a last-16 tie as heavy underdogs, much like Steve Borthwick's outfit ahead of the Six Nations meeting.

"They stopped us winning the Grand Slam, that was the unfortunate thing," said winger Lowe when asked if their opponents may take something from the London game, in which he scored two tries.

"Look, in terms of that game, we were put under an immense amount of pressure and England had their backs against the wall after the week before [a loss to Scotland] and they stepped up and managed to topple us over so fair play to them.

"There are some English internationals in this Leicester side who are going to be probably playing the same tune as what they were in the week leading up to our Test match.

"It's about us getting our stuff right.

"We understand the pressure that comes in these knock-out style games, international-level games we play and we know if we do our job to the best of our ability, there's going to be opportunities to exploit."

New Zealand native Lowe, who has won 31 caps under Andy Farrell since making his international debut in 2020, also revealed details of the injury that kept him out of action after the World Cup in October until last January.

"I got a little bit of a nasty one, I tore the muscles under my foot. During the World