Opposition view: Botica salutes Bordeaux youngsters after 'amazing' win at Saints

Botica kicked three penalties before being replaced by Matthieu Jalibert, whose 74th-minute penalty hit the post, allowing Santiago Cordero to collect the ball and score the winning try.

It was a gritty 16-12 success for Bordeaux, who had been on the back foot for long periods of the game but who ensured Saints would not score a try on the night.

The black, green and gold only had four Dan Biggar penalties to show for their efforts.

And former Harlequins fly-half Botica said: "We're enormously proud of all our young guys who are all stepping up and to get a win after a couple of yellows and being down on our luck, it's testament to the team.

"It's something we've been able to pride ourselves on this season because we've had a couple of good away wins and we've come from behind to win.

"We never let ourselves get out of it, we always try to keep our noses in it and the forwards did an amazing job stopping their maul.

"It was an amazing performance from everyone."

Bordeaux twice went down to 14 men, with influential flanker Cameron Woki one of the players who was sin-binned.

And Woki said: "It's nice to win tough.

"Northampton is a good team, it's my first time in the Champions Cup and it's very hard.

"I enjoyed the game because we won and I'm happy for the team."