[BUG] runtime error in (*routeRegexp).Match

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Current Behavior

Code panics

Expected Behavior

Not to panic but return an error

Steps To Reproduce

It's a sporadic issue we spotted through automation (Sentry) so hard to tell how it could be reproduced but somehow the regexp pointer is nil when the code attempts to match.

Anything else?

Stacktrace

runtime.errorString: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
  File "regexp/exec.go", line 527, in (*Regexp).doExecute
  File "regexp/exec.go", line 514, in (*Regexp).doMatch
  File "regexp/regexp.go", line 533, in (*Regexp).MatchString
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/regexp.go", line 193, in (*routeRegexp).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/route.go", line 50, in (*Route).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/mux.go", line 138, in (*Router).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/route.go", line 50, in (*Route).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/mux.go", line 138, in (*Router).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/route.go", line 50, in (*Route).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/mux.go", line 138, in (*Router).Match
  File "github.com/gorilla/mux@v1.8.0/mux.go", line 196, in (*Router).ServeHTTP
  File "net/http/server.go", line 2109, in HandlerFunc.ServeHTTP
  File "net/http/server.go", line 2947, in serverHandler.ServeHTTP
  File "net/http/server.go", line 1991, in (*conn).serve