Having earned a morale-boosting, much-needed win against Exeter in their last outing, Gloucester’s George Skvington has stuck with almost the same line-up as the Cherry and Whites look to close the gap on Sale, seven points above them in the table.
Hooker Seb Blake returns after missing the win against the Chiefs, while Lewis Ludlow drops out with injury and James Venter comes into the back row.
Sale have made four changes to their starting XV as they also look to record back-to-back wins away from home having beaten Harlequins in their last game.
Joe Carpenter starts at full-back, Marius Louw comes into the centre and Hyron Andrews comes into a shuffled forward pack.
Gloucester: Barton; Joseph, Llewellyn, S. Atkinson, Loader; C. Atkinson, Williams (c); Rapava-Ruskin, Blake, Clark; Alemanno, Thomas, Venter, Trenholm.
Replacements: Innard, Bleuler, Knight, Eite, Gwynne, Clement. Englesfield, Edwards-Giraud.
Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, Louw, Ma’asi-White, O’Flaherty; Ford, Warr; McEachran, Longstaff, Opoku-Fordjour; Andrews, Bamber, Van Rhyn (c), Vermeulen, Dugdale.
Replacements: Austin, Onasanya, Harper, Woodman, Kelly, Hanson, James, Reed.
