Director of rugby Mark McCall says the performances of Saracens' returning England internationals shows the squad's togetherness after the Men in Black beat Harlequins 27-12.

Despite a strenuous Six Nations tournament which ended with a disappointing defeat to Wales last weekend, McCall started five England players including Alex Goode, Chris Ashton, Owen Farrell, Brad Barritt and Mako Vunipola.

And the Sarries boss praised the players' impact against Quins and their eagerness to play.

"The win is important but the performance was really good and I want to take my hat off to the England guys who obviously had a difficult weekend (against Wales) last weekend," McCall said. 

"All of them to a man were desperate to play today and in a funny kind of way the last ten minutes showed what the group is all about - that togetherness.

"The game was won and we didn't want to give them anything and I thought there was great courage to do that and also great togetherness."

McCall added: "We found it tough going down to Munster after the autumn internationals, after England had beaten New Zealand.

"I just think it says a lot about the environment and about the group that they were so keen to come back and enjoy the environment so much but some of our non-internationals were pretty good today as well."

Tries in each half from Schalk Brits and Will Fraser - as well as five penalties from Farrell - meant Saracens were always in charge against Quins.

The Men in Black were threatening throughout and McCall praised his side's attacking display.

"As a team we played really well today, our attacking game caused them some problems and we scored our tries at the right times," he said.

"We thought we missed some chances - in the first 20 minutes or so we made a lot of bursts into their 22 and came away with relatively little so we scored our tries at the right times - it was a good overall performance."

Saracens have scored 93 points in their three league matches on the artificial surface at Allianz Park and McCall says the players already feel at home on the plastic surface.

"It feels good out there and times when you would kick on another surface you maybe run on that pitch," he said.

"In the first two games the stats said we carried the ball 50 times more and I'm sure it's something similar today."

"The players enjoy playing here."