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Gloucester end losing run with victory over Black Lion in Georgia
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George Barton ended Gloucester’s losing streak by kicking five penalties to clinch a 15-10 European Challenge Cup victory over tournament debutants Black Lion in Tbilisi.
Gloucester made the trip to Georgia after suffering six successive Gallagher Premiership defeats – a sequence of results that had ramped up external pressure on rugby director George Skivington.
But they prevailed in a tense encounter at the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, with fly-half Barton the match-winner.
Barton booted two early penalties before Black Lion went ahead through a Luka Matkava try that he also converted, but Barton completed a hat-trick before the break.
The second period proved try-less, but two more Barton penalties to one from Matkava meant that Gloucester rediscovered a winning formula.
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