Saturday, March 7, 2009

Leicester 24-10 Gloucester

Leicester (12) 24
Pens: Dupuy 7 Drop: G Murphy

Gloucester (10) 10
Try: Balshaw Con: Barkley Pen: Barkley


Leicester v Gloucester

Scrum-half Julien Dupuy kicked Leicester into second in the Premiership with a valuable win against leaders Gloucester at Welford Road.

Dupuy slotted seven penalties, while Geordan Murphy sealed the win with a drop-goal from inside his own half.

Gloucester struggled from the sin-binning of scrum-half Rory Lawson and lock Alex Brown but scored the game's only try through Iain Balshaw.

Tigers had tries from Tom Croft and Marco Wentzel disallowed.

More to follow.


Leicester: G Murphy; Hamilton, Smith, Mauger (capt), Tuilagi; Vesty, Dupuy; Ayerza, Kayser, White, Deacon, Kay, Croft, Woods, Pienaar.
Replacements: Davies, Castrogiovanni, Wentzel, Hemingway, Youngs, Hougaard, Erinle.

Gloucester: Morgan; Balshaw, Trinder, Barkley, Sharples; Spencer, Lawson; Wood, Azam, Somerville, Eustace, Brown, Narraway, Hazell, Delve.
Replacements: Titterrell, Nieto, Bortolami, Strokosch, Pasqualin, Lamb, Foster.

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