{"id":359158,"date":"2025-12-19T22:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359158\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:19:16","slug":"england-star-scores-on-return-as-tigers-pile-points-on-gloucester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359158\/","title":{"rendered":"England star scores on return as Tigers pile points on Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

England<\/a> lock Ollie Chessum<\/a> scored on his return from injury to cap a comfortable 45-14 win for Leicester<\/a> against Gloucester<\/a> in the Gallagher PREM.<\/p>\n

The Tigers moved level on points with leaders and defending champions Bath<\/a> at the top of the table after scoring seven tries at Mattioli Woods Welford Road against the struggling Cherry and Whites.<\/p>\n

A 20-minute red card for replacement hooker Charlie Clare<\/a> was the only negative of the night for the hosts, but this was the perfect way to bounce back from back-to-back defeats in the Investec Champions Cup.<\/p>\n

Leicester were ahead after 12 minutes when an arcing run from Solomone Kata<\/a> took them close before Tom Whiteley<\/a> recycled for James Thompson<\/a> to burrow his way over from about a metre out.<\/p>\n

Billy Searle tagged on the conversion, and having set up the opening try, Kata scored the second himself as he breezed through a yawning gap in the Gloucester defence before charging in down the right wing.<\/p>\n

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A chance for the Cherry and Whites to bring themselves back into the game went begging when Ollie Thorley<\/a> was held up in-goal after the ball went through the hands of Ross Byrne<\/a> and Seb Atkinson.<\/p>\n

Leicester were then awarded a penalty try right at the end of the first half when Charlie Atkinson<\/a> illegally tackled Ollie Hassell-Collins<\/a> as he looked to ground the ball after the winger had been tap-tackled by the Gloucester full-back.<\/p>\n

Atkinson was sin-binned as a result, giving the visitors an even steeper mountain to climb after half-time, with the Tigers leading 19-0.<\/p>\n

After just 42 seconds of the second half, they had their bonus point when Freddie Steward<\/a> went on a rampaging run down the left before passing inside to send Whiteley under the posts.<\/p>\n

It was turning into a miserable night for the Cherry and Whites and it took another turn for the worse when Josh Hathaway<\/a> was unable to mop up Whiteley\u2019s chip ahead, allowing Leicester skipper Tommy Reffell<\/a> to steal in and score.<\/p>\n

Gloucester were finally on the board after 58 minutes, and it was a happier moment for Hathaway as the young Wales<\/a> winger was able to weave his way over down the right.<\/p>\n

But their defence was at sixes and sevens again when Searle was able to step into open space with ease before shrugging off a flimsy attempt at a last-ditch tackle to score Leicester\u2019s sixth try.<\/p>\n

Clare was then shown a 20-minute red card in the 67th minute for his shoulder making contact with Jack Clement\u2019s head at a ruck.<\/p>\n

Despite his side being a man light, Chessum delighted the crowd with his comeback try before Clement scored Gloucester\u2019s second of the night off a driving maul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England lock Ollie Chessum scored on his return from injury to cap a comfortable 45-14 win for Leicester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-359158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}