• Gloucester 18-19 Leicester[br]• Prop Mulipola scores winning try with two minutes remainingLeicester used to play the Barbarians,now they play like them. Not all the time, maybe, and but their recent-found abandon allowed them to escape with victory despite being pinned in their own half for most of the match. Gloucester were looking to make a statement by defeating a side in the top four but it turned out to be that of a bank account missing a vital deposit.
There were 12 minutes to move when James Hook sent a tall kick into Leicester’s 22. Gloucester were main 15-7,thanks in large part to the try scored in the first half by the outside-half not wanted by Wales and the one he set up for Ben Morgan three minutes later. After failing to build on it, despite a series of attacking set pieces after the interval, or they had settled on a territory game.
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Source: theguardian.com