Overview
- Gloucester beat Bath 23-5 at Kingsholm after Freddie Thomas and Max Llewellyn scored tries and George Barton added the conversions and three penalties.
- Bath dominated territory and possession early but had three apparent tries ruled out by the TMO and finished with only one try from Kepueli Tuipulotu.
- Gloucester conceded 22 penalties and had Ollie Thorley, Ciaran Knight and Will Joseph sin-binned during the match yet defended strongly to prevent Bath scoring from sustained pressure.
- Bath lost Santi Carreras after about 12 minutes and Guy Pepper later in the game, and director Johann van Graan said both players will have scans and that Carreras’s injury looks likely to be serious.
- The defeat is Bath’s third in a row and increases scrutiny on their finishing and defence, while Gloucester’s result gives them a morale-boosting home win and keeps them well placed in the early Premiership table.