Gloucester failed to break the deadlock despite playing against 14 men and Leicester worked their way up the field and elected to go the corner rather than take the three, but their maul was halted superbly by Gloucester to leave the half-time score at 0-0. Gloucester were camped in the Tigers twenty-two for the majority of the sin-bin period but could not capitalise and came away empty-handed and the game remained scoreless. However, it was Carreras who brought a bit of life to proceedings going quickly from a tap penalty, which forced another infringement, seeing Harry Potter sent to the sin-bin and giving Gloucester a golden opportunity to open the scoring. Leicester also spurned an early attacking opportunity before Tom Seabrook and Carreras both made poor decisions in attack which prevented the home side taking the lead.īoth sides were guilty of mistakes with penalties and handling errors plentiful in a scrappy first period. Gloucester began well thanks to a Santiago Carrerars’ 50-22 kick, which gave them good field position, but the Cherry and Whites couldn’t take advantage as they failed to execute their rolling maul. Jake Polledri explains why he will leave Gloucester Rugby for the URC.Gloucester Rugby v Leicester Tigers LIVE: Play-by-play updates from the Slater Cup at Kingsholm.Tigers also retain the Slater Cup, a new trophy introduced this season, in honour of former lock Ed Slater who played for both sides before retiring after being diagnosed with MND. Gloucester hit back through a Jonny May try but a yellow card moments later for skipper Lewis Ludlow halted their comeback.īen Youngs crossed over for Leicester’s third try moments later and Jasper Wiese added the bonus point try right on full time to to move the Tigers up to third on points difference whilst Gloucester remain in eighth and with only one win in their last five outings. Second-half tries from Mike Brown and Julian Montoya in a five-minute period gave Leicester the lead after the game had endured a scoreless first half. Champions Leicester Tigers dealt Gloucester a hammer blow to their top four hopes and made it six successive victories over the Cherry Whites in the Premiership with a 26-5 bonus point win at Kingsholm.
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