{"id":694203,"date":"2026-01-14T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694203\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:01:16","slug":"russell-eager-to-face-scotland-team-mates-when-bath-play-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694203\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell eager to face Scotland team-mates when Bath play Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finn Russell \u00a9 Gallo Images <\/p>\n

Finn Russell is looking forward to the challenge of going up against several Scotland teammates when Bath face Edinburgh in the European Champions Cup.\n<\/p>\n

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Friday’s tie at Bath’s Recreation Ground should decide whether the English Premiership champions or the Edinburgh side finish top of a highly competitive Pool Two and thereby secure home advantage until the semifinals.<\/p>\n

The match takes place just three weeks ahead of Scotland’s Six Nations opener away to Italy in Rome on February 7.\n<\/p>\n

“I got a little bit off the Edinburgh players when we played them last season,” said Bath flyhalf Russell. “It’s all good fun and all part of the game.\n<\/p>\n

“I played against Edinburgh a lot of times when I was at Glasgow and I’ve played with a lot of their players with Scotland. I know these boys from camp so well.”\n<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old playmaker added: “It’s always good fun playing against boys you know because there’s always bragging rights before the Six Nations. If they win or we win, we wind each other up.\n<\/p>\n

“I imagine there will be a couple of late shots, getting held on the ground \u2013 that kind of stuff, which is always the case against players you know.\n<\/p>\n

“Edinburgh have had a great campaign in the Champions Cup so far. It’s going to be a big challenge for us and we know what’s coming. Hopefully we’ll do the job on Friday night and we’ve got bit of a plan for them.”\n<\/p>\n

The England pair of Ollie Lawrence and Sam Underhill are set to return for Bath after missing Friday’s 43-20 victory at French club Castres with unspecified injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finn Russell \u00a9 Gallo Images Finn Russell is looking forward to the challenge of going up against several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115890519587097249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}