Baxter amazed at 'incredible' Exeter comeback

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says his side's comeback win at Saracens was "incredible".

The Chiefs trailed 24-13 with 20 minutes tom go, but scored three tries in the final quarter to win 30-24 at their big rivals.

It was a second impressive comeback in as many Prem away games after overcoming a 20-point second-half deficit to win 27-26 at Sale last month.

"I kind of don't know how the lads keep doing it," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.

"Sooner or later we're going to run out of that ability to just see things off.

"But I'm going to keep congratulating them and keep taking it while we can because it's something incredible to behold."

The win moved Exeter top of the Prem for a day before Bath beat Newcastle to return to the top of the table and leave Baxter's side in second place going into Christmas, with their next game at home to Leicester on 28 December.

Exeter's win came despite losing two players to yellow cards and giving away 16 penalties - more than double that conceded by Saracens.

"We're trying incredibly hard to win games and we're trying incredibly hard to lose games," added Baxter.

"It really is incredible because most of our wounds today were kind of self-inflicted.

"There's some pretty soft penalties in there that put us under pressure, the yellow cards are relatively soft really and they're on the back of other pressure that we don't need to put ourselves under.

"And yet we're weathering it and we're bouncing through it and we're coming out the other side.

"Whatever I say, I cannot fault their commitment and their energy and their drive and their fight for each other."

Coming off the back of their worst season as a top-flight club, where Exeter finished second-from-bottom, the Chiefs have been impressive this season.

They have won five and drawn one of their seven league games and are just one point off their total of 29 they managed last season.

Baxter says his side's spirit is ensuring that they are remaining competitive deep into games.

"The five points away from home, at this time of year, this is when you've got to start knuckling down and making things happen," he said.

"The lads never look down and out do they? They get on with it, they get up and they fight, and we've talked a lot at times about sometimes just getting off the floor and getting a fight and a little tackle gets made, forcing a knock-on, you force one more error, you just stay in the fight and I think today was a perfect example.

"We stayed in the fight long enough to get things to go our way, then eventually they did."