Sky Live: Toulon v Scarlets
Last Updated: 13/10/17 9:29pm
Scarlets' Leigh Halfpenny returns to his former club in the hotly anticipated Pool 5 contest live on Sky Sports Action.
When the sides met in the Champions Cup last season, Leigh Halfpenny missed a late penalty to win a game Scarlets edged 22-21.
Since then the Wales' star has switched allegiance and his return to France with Scarlets is the big story ahead of the tie.
Toulon - three-time champions in the competition - have a forbidding home record, winning 20 out of their last 21 home games at Stade Félix Mayol.
Against that, Sunday's visitors have lost their last nine away games in the competition and coach Wayne Pivac will be hoping last season's PRO12 champions can reproduce form that was then backboned by some brilliant attacking displays.
Despite that optimism, much is stacked in favour of Toulon topping Pool 5.
They begin their campaign with home advantage and their supremely talented squad has been further boosted by the arrival of England international Chris Ashton, former All Black Malakai Fekitoa and South Africa's JP Peterson, among others.
RC Toulon: 15 Hugo Bonneval; 14 Josua Tuisova, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud (c), 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Chris Ashton; 10 Anthony Belleau, 9 Eric Escande; 1 Florian Fresia, 2 Guilhem Guirado, 3 Marcel Van Der Merwe, 4 Swan Rebbadj, 5 Mamuka Gorgodze, 6 Juan Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Facundo Isa, 8 Raphael Lakafia
Replacements: 16 Anthony Etrillard, 17 Xavier Chiocci, 18 Levan Chilachava, 19 Rudy Gahetau, 20 Semi Radradra, 21 Francois Trinh-Duc, 22 Sebastien Tillous-Borde, 23 Juandre Kruger
Scarlets: 15 Leigh Halfpenny; 14 Johnny McNicholl, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Scott Williams (c), 11 Steff Evans; 10 Rhys Patchell, 9 Aled Davies; 1 Wyn Jones, 2 Ryan Elias, 3 Samson Lee, 4 Jake Ball, 5 Lewis Rawlins, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Will Boyde, 8 Tadhg Beirne
Replacements: 16 Ken Owens, 17 Dylan Evans, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 David Bulbring, 20 Joshua Macleod, 21 Gareth Davies, 22 Paul Asquith, 23 Hadleigh Parkes