Match Report – Saracens 35 – 26 Bristol

Tom Willis scores two tries as Saracens beat Bristol to strengthen their claims to make their England debut at quantity 8 within the Six Nations opener in opposition to Eire on February 1; Wales’ Max Llewellyn additionally scores twice in Gloucester’s win over Sale, Leicester victorious in opposition to struggling Exeter.

Tom Willis scored twice in Saracens’ win over Bristol to additional enhance his England Take a look at debut claims

Tom Willis scored two tries as Saracens knocked out second-placed Bristol Bears in a 35-26 victory within the Gallagher Premiership on Saturday.

Saracens bounced again from their report Premiership defeat at Tub every week earlier by ending the Bears’ 10-match successful run on the street – with Willis spearheading their bonus-point win.

The participant of the match demonstrated his energy in his two tries, along with his second – scored simply earlier than half-time – seeing him evade three tacklers in a devastating run down the proper wing.

It is a efficiency that may intensify the clamor for England’s debut at No.8 within the Six Nations opener in opposition to Eire on February 1, with the 25-year-old possessing the ball at present lacking the final row of Scott Borthwick’s crew.

There have been additionally tries from Fergus Burke, who crossed twice, and Lucio Cinti to present Jamie George the victory he was in search of in his three hundredth look for the membership.

The Bears, crushed 38-0 by Sale every week in the past, fought again within the ultimate moments of the sport however, this time, have been left with an excessive amount of to do.

After early tries from Willis and Burke, Harry Randall hit again for Bristol from shut vary as his aspect seemed to be operating out of concepts.

Saracens suffered one other setback when Maro Itoje obtained a yellow card and was despatched to the dustbin for the eighth time in 21 matches. The Bears continued to press, solely to concede back-to-back penalties to permit the six-time Premiership champions to flee.

Elliot Daly struck from the tee from 50 yards to place Saracens forward by 10 factors – the one rating as Itoje was within the bin – earlier than the house aspect went additional forward with Willis’ second rating and Cinti’s try and get the bonus level.

Kalaveti Ravouvou crossed within the 61st minute to present Bristol hope and the fightback continued when Harry Thacker completed off a lineout maul, however Burke put the end result past doubt earlier than Jake Heenan struck late.

Gloucester 36-20 Sale Sharks

Wales worldwide Max Llewellyn scored two tries as Gloucester emphatically ended Sale Sharks’ latest resurgence.

Llewellyn struck in every half, with Gloucester securing a most 5 factors to maintain themselves in play-off rivalry.

Sale’s hopes of securing a fourth successive Premiership victory have been dashed when a stellar first-half show from Gloucester produced tries for Llewellyn, full-back Santi Carreras and winger Josh Hathaway.

Sale have been 22-3 down after 26 minutes and it proved too tough for them to get well regardless of tries from skipper Ben Curry, hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie and winger Tom Roebuck, with heart Rob du Preez additionally scoring a penalty and a conversion.

Llewellyn’s Sixtieth-minute rating and a late Tomos Williams landing lastly noticed Gloucester residence, with Carreras finishing an achieved efficiency by touchdown a penalty and 4 conversions for a complete of 16 factors.

Sale suffered a late blow when scrum-half Raffi Quirke was taken off as a precaution.

Leicester Tigers 28-15 Exeter Chiefs

Leicester fought again to safe a well-deserved, however unconvincing, victory over struggling Exeter in a dour contest.

The Tigers have been the higher crew within the first half, however the guests dominated the second half till Will Rigg was taken off and it was unlucky to not come away with at the very least a degree.

Olly Cracknell, Cameron Henderson, Ollie Hassell-Collins and Ben Youngs scored Leicester’s tries, with Handre Pollard changing all 4.

For Exeter, two items of magic from Henry Slade created a pair of tries for Tom Wyatt, with Josh Hodge changing one. Slade additionally added a penalty.

Exeter took an early lead with a Slade penalty within the fourth minute, however of their first interval of stress Leicester responded with a Cracknell attempt when the No.8 proved unstoppable from a five-yard scrum .

After 31 minutes, Leicester prolonged the lead when a half-break from Pollard gave Henderson the chance to crash beneath the posts. Pollard transformed, however missed a long-range penalty as his aspect held a deserved 14-3 lead on the break.

Two minutes after the restart Exeter scored a wonderful attempt with Slade’s cross kick collected by Wyatt for the wing to cross, whereas shortly after Stu Townsend and Slade mixed completely to supply Wyatt one other walk-in rating.

With quarter-hour remaining, Exeter misplaced substitute Rigg to the dustbin for taking out Freddie Steward within the air and the Tigers instantly capitalized with a Hassell-Collins attempt, whereas Youngs scored late on to earn a bonus level to deserved punishment.

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