Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Radio Devon:

"It's a relief, but there's also an enjoyment factor to it.

"I'm pleased for the lads, I'm pleased for the club really as well and the supporters who've been here a bit through thick and thin for quite a while as well.

"That was an important victory for us to have some feelgood factor going into this next two-month block through the Six Nations.

"Without that I think we'd still be looking around going 'are we heading in the right direction?'

"It was a much-changed Saracens side, but they were typical Saracens weren't they? There was nothing easy out there and, if anything, a much-changed Saracens side almost put more pressure on us to have to achieve something today."

Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall:

"It doesn't feel like a Premiership weekend is necessary on a weekend like this, when there are international camps and there are players away, when it is only an 18-game regular season.

"We said before the game that in lots of ways the outcome was immaterial to what we wanted from the game as we knew that come the end of the Six Nations when the Premiership recommences, we were going to be in the mix anyway, with seven games to go.

"We had a lot of unavailability through international call-ups and the big casualty list we have got, and we brought a bit of a younger and inexperienced team and we asked them to play big today and not play within themselves, and show how good they are, and not be cautious, and I thought they were wonderful.

"The energy in the team, in the first 40 minutes in particular, was absolutely outstanding. We had senior players who showed the way and we had younger players who played big like we asked them to, and that continued in the second half.

"And then we had that unfortunate 45 seconds or so where they scored a try from the halfway line and then another from the restart, and that's 14 points in no time at all.

"The whole energy of the ground changed and that was the game really."