Impressive Gloucester beat rivals Bath in Prem

Gloucester secure a 23-5 victory over Bath in the Premiership, their first win over their rivals at Kingsholm since April 2022.

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Gloucester had not beaten Bath at Kingsholm in the league in four and a half years. The Cherry and Whites were down to 13 men for a period of the first half but led 9-5 at half-time, having repelled wave after wave of Bath pressure on their tryline.

George Barton then kicked three successive penalties to put the hosts 9-0 up before Kepu Tuipulotu pulled a try back just before the break from a driving maul. Freddie Thomas scored under the posts to stretch Gloucester's lead further midway through the second half and Max Llewellyn had Kingsholm raucous when he rolled over with two minutes to go for a famous victory.

This was Gloucester's first victory over their oldest rivals since their 64-0 thrashing of Bath more than four and a half years earlier, months before Johann van Graan took over at The Rec and transformed the Bath team.

For Bath, it is a third defeat in a row in all competitions, their lowest amount of Prem points scored under Van Graan, and all compounded by the losses of full-back Santiago Carreras to a possible anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, while flanker Guy Pepper also went off injured.