Leicester Tigers' director of rugby Matt O’Connor is "incredibly pleased" for Manu Tuilagi that the citing against him has been dismissed.
The England centre was cited following the Champions Cup game against Munster at Welford Road on Sunday.
It was alleged Tuilagi tackled flanker Chris Cloete dangerously in the 49th minute of the match in contravention of Law 10.4 (e).
However, he was cleared by an independent disciplinary committee and is free to play against Saracens at Welford Road on Christmas Eve.
"Manu won’t miss any rugby, which is incredibly pleasing for him and for the group," O'Connor told the BBC.
"I’m really thankful for Manu because, off the back of his much-publicised lay-off from the game, now that he’s back fit and got through an 80 minutes on his first game back, you’d be devastated for him and the group if he was to miss games with a ban.
"Thankfully sanity prevailed.
"There was no malicious intent and it wasn’t particularly high. It looked like it was a pretty sound tackle from our perspective, but that’s the role of the independent citing commissioner to have a look at all those incidents and see if there is anything in them, and thankfully there wasn’t."
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