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Watson at the double as Wasps hold off Bath
By Peter Hanson
Marcus Watson scored twice and was sin-binned as Wasps ran in five tries to Bath's four to secure a hard-fought 31-26 triumph at The Rec.
In form Wasps, who have now won six straight Premiership matches, came flying out the blocks as winger Watson dotted down from Willie Le Roux's excellent offload.
Dan Robson then went over from close range, before Watson had a second after a slick Wasps move on Friday.
Bath grasped the initiative when Watson saw yellow for deliberate knock on, and the hosts made the most of the extra number as Rhys Priestland and James Wilson touched down to leave them trailing 19-14 at the break.
A topsy-turvy second half saw Juan de Jongh and Gabiriele Lovobalavu dot down for Wasps, only for Paul Grant and Zach Mercer to respond - the latter while Le Roux was in the sin-bin.
But Wasps clung on amid late pressure to move up to second in the table, albeit Saracens can reclaim the spot by beating Worcester, while Bath have now lost three on the spin.
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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