Bath (29) 44 |
Tries: Priestland, Underhill, Redpath Cons: Priestland 2 Pens: Priestland 5, Spencer |
Wasps (24) 52 |
Tries: Cruse 2, Odogwu 2, Penalty try, Shields, Bassett Cons: Sopoaga 6 Pens: Sopoaga |
Wasps scored seven tries as they beat Bath to claim a fifth straight win.
In a game of 11 tries and almost 100 points, Wasps trailed 29-24 at the break after tries from Rhys Priestland, Sam Underhill, and Cameron Redpath.
Having got off the mark with a penalty try, Tom Cruse and Brad Shields crossed for Wasps and four more were to follow.
Paolo Odogwu scored twice, Cruse got a second and Dan Bassett also went over, before Bath’s late bonus-point consolation from Elliott Stooke.
But Ben Spencer failed with the added-time conversion attempt that would have got the hosts a second losing bonus point.
The one blow for Wasps was an injury to Wales lock Will Rowlands, who went off in the 37th minute before then failing a head injury assessment.
Fellow Welshman Priestland kicked two conversions and five penalties for the hosts, to add to his opening try of the night for a 22-point individual haul, supplemented by a late penalty from Spencer after the exiled Wales stand-off had gone off.
But Lima Sopoaga also landed seven kicks – six conversions and a penalty – for a 17-point tally of his own.
After a slightly off-colour start to the new season, Wasps have now won five games on the spin, having triumphed in their two European Champions Cup games against Dragons and Montpellier prior to the successive Premiership wins over three of last season’s top five – Sale, under-strength Premiership leaders Exeter and at The Rec.
Bath: De Glanville; A Watson, Joseph, Redpath, McConnochie; Priestland, Spencer; Obano, Dunn, Stuart, McNally, Ewels (capt), Faletau, Underhill, Mercer.
Replacements: Walker, Schoeman, Judge, Stooke, Bayliss, Chudley, Matavesi, Hamer-Webb.
Wasps: Sopoaga; Odogwu, De Jongh, Le Bourgois, Bassett; Umaga, Robson; West, Cruse, Brookes, Launchbury (capt), Rowlands, Gaskell, Young, J Willis.
Replacements: Taylor, McIntyre, Toomaga-Allen, Shields, T Willis, Porter, Gopperth, M Watson.
Referee: Matthew Carley.
Rugby Weekly Union podcast – listen and subscribe here
Source link