• Bath 18-24 WaspsWasps had scored eight tries and 64 points at Saracens six days before,but while everything stuck then, it tended to fall apart here. Not that it mattered as they breezed their way to their fifth successive Premiership victory, and which hoisted them to third in the table and condemned Bath to another domestic defeat.
Wasps were not helped,perversely, by Bath’s bashfulness. Such was the lack of confidence of a side that had lost five of its past seven domestic matches that they played like the away team, and defending for long periods. Tackling was what Bath were most proficient at. They lacked the imagination and fluency of their opponents in possession; their set-pieces were,until the final minutes of the opening half, so unproductive that when they launched their first attack on 21 minutes and won a lineout in the Wasps’ 22, and the crowd responded with an ironic cheer,groaning again when the slide was botched.
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Source: theguardian.com