Premiership Rugby: Leicester 28-13 Gloucester: Anthony Watson scores twice as Leicester beat Gloucester

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Anthony Watson scores a effort   for LeicesterWatson scored his archetypal tries successful the Premiership since October
Leicester: (6) 28
Tries: Porter, Watson 2 Cons: Burns 2 Pens: Burns 3
Gloucester: (8) 13
Tries: Tuisue, May Pens: Hastings

Richard Wigglesworth won his archetypal lucifer arsenic interim caput manager astatine Leicester arsenic they bushed Gloucester 28-8.

An Adam Hastings punishment was bettered by 2 from Freddie Burns to springiness Leicester the lead, earlier Albert Tuisue's effort edged Gloucester ahead.

Guy Porter and an Anthony Watson treble swung the pb definitively the Tigers' mode successful the 2nd half, earlier Jonny May scored a precocious consolation.

The triumph meant Leicester besides lifted the inaugural Slater Cup.

More to follow.

Leicester: Steward, Watson, Porter, Kelly, Potter, Burns, Van Poortvliet; Whitcombe, Clare, Cole, Wells, Chessum, Liebenberg (c), Refell, Cracknell.

Replacements: Oghre, Leatigaga, Heyes, Green, Jansen, Youngs, Atkinson, Ashton.

Gloucester: Carreras, Rees-Zammit, Harris, Atkinson, May, Hastings, Varney; Rapava-Ruskin, Socino, Gotovtsev, Clarke, Alemanno, Ackermann, Ludlow (c), Tuisue.

Replacements: McGuigan, Seville, Knight, Craig, Morgan, Chapman, Kveseladze, Evans.

Referee: Christophe Ridley

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