Gloucester close out Harlequins as Hathaway and Clement seal 3rd directly win

Gloucester Rugby recorded a 3rd consecutive Gallagher Premiership victory with a 14-0 win in opposition to Harlequins due to first-half tries from Josh Hathaway and Jack Clement.

After beating protecting champions Northampton Saints of their earlier Premiership come across, a sold-out Kingsholm used to be anticipating a aggressive conflict in opposition to Quins.

The ability of the Cherry & Whites forwards used to be obvious from the outset, placing their guests onto the again foot.

Kingsholm used to be handled to a Twelfth-minute opening attempt when Max Llewellyn’s dummy ended in Hathaway working over.

The second one attempt used to be additionally similarly as spectacular as from a line-out, a using maul with tempo ended in Clement crossing the whitewash.

Gloucester will have to had been additional forward through the belief as Santiago Carreras noticed a penalty hit a publish, and Hathaway failed to complete when he used to be kicked via.

The end result sees Gloucester put additional force at the most sensible 4, whilst Quins drop to 5 issues outdoor the play-offs ahead of the remainder of the weekend’s fixtures.

Subsequent week sees Harlequins have every other tricky conflict at house to Leicester, whilst Gloucester shuttle to Exeter Chiefs.

A victory final month in opposition to Northampton adopted through a win at house to Harlequins has put Gloucester at the verge of the Gallagher Premiership most sensible 4.

With a shuttle to backside facet Exeter and a house conflict in opposition to Sale to observe, lovers at Kingsholm are beginning to consider one thing particular is development.

Gloucester have secured six attempt bonus issues from 8 video games this season, however it’s their defence which is beginning to stand out.

For the primary time in 10 years, Harlequins failed to attain some degree right through a sport, regardless of having a number of visits into the Gloucester 22.

Quins will replicate on some elementary mistakes which passed ownership again to their fighters, however Gloucester will take nice satisfaction from their cussed defence and strong scrummage.

Gloucester had been with out scrum-half Williams since he injured his shoulder whilst enjoying for Wales within the Autumn International locations Sequence.

Williams overlooked his facet’s earlier Gallagher Premiership win in opposition to Northampton Saints, however performed a key position of their win over Harlequins.

The Wales global used to be influential in his facet’s opening attempt after which had the foresight to kick Hathaway via overdue within the fit, for what will have to had been his 2nd attempt.

Gloucester Rugby: Carreras 7, Wade 7, Llewellyn 8, Atkinson 8, Hathaway 7, Anscombe 7, Williams 8, Knight 7, Blake 7, Fasogbon 7, Thomas 7, Alemanno 7, Clement 7, Ludlow 7, Ackermann 7. Replacements: Singleton 6, Vivas 6, Gotovtsev 6, Jordan 6, Tuisue 6, Barton 6

Harlequins: Inexperienced 6, Isgro 6, Beard 6, Anyanwu 6, Murley 6, Smith 6, Porter 6, Baxter 6, Walker 6, Kerrod 6, Lamb 6, Hammond 6, Cunningham-South 6, Evans 6, Dombrandt 6. Replacements: Riley 6, Jones 6, Lewis 6, Herbst 6, Chisholm 6, Care 6, Evans 6, David 6.

12’ – TRY! GLOUCESTER (HATHAWAY) 7-0 HARLEQUINS: Llewellyn with a dummy run ahead of feeding the ball in the back of him and Anscombe spots the run of Hathaway out extensive to attain the hole attempt. Carreras kicks the conversion directly down the center.

29’ – TRY! GLOUCESTER (CLEMENT) 14-0 HARLEQUINS: Fasogbon is in reality thriving within the scrum this night and he wins every other scrum penalty. The next line-out ends up in a decent using maul which spins and lets in Clement to the touch the ball down. Carreras curls house his 2nd conversion of the night time.

66’ – CARRERAS HITS POST: The Gloucester kicker opts for a penalty to take his facet’s benefit past two transformed tries. Then again, his effort rattles the publish.

68’ – HATHAWAY BIG CHANCE: Williams sends a very good kick out extensive for Hathaway who is thru at the try-line. Then again, as a substitute of catching the ball he tries to kick it on and as he tries to assemble the ball his shoulder falls into contact.

• Gloucester made 155 tackles to their opponent’s 97 and all sides had a take on accuracy of 79%.