{"id":209493,"date":"2025-10-18T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209493\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:46:08","slug":"the-prem-leicester-tigers-22-20-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209493\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prem: Leicester Tigers 22-20 Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the clubs’ first meeting since Bath won a closely fought Twickenham showpiece<\/a> in June, it was the away side who struck first.<\/p>\n

Santi Carreras, in his first Bath start, kicked forward in midfield for his team-mates to chase. The ball was spilled by Adam Radwan, allowing the Argentina international to kick ahead once more. <\/p>\n

Henry Arundell was first on the ball before off-loading to Frost to score a try on what was also his first start in the blue, black and white.<\/p>\n

But that lead was not to last for long.<\/p>\n

Bath were penalised in the scrum, giving Tigers a tap and go from the five-metre line.<\/p>\n

Following a couple of repelled thrusts, it was Cracknell who forced his way over the line, before James O’Connor added the extras.<\/p>\n

Stung, Bath responded in kind.<\/p>\n

Following another break from Carreras that drove deep into Tigers territory, the visitors recycled allowing Underhill to pirouette his way over the try line despite the despairing tackle of O’Connor.<\/p>\n

Bath then extended their lead further through Redpath, the centre benefitting from the searing pace of Arundell down the touchline.<\/p>\n

With Freddie Steward coming across, the Scot produced a perfectly timed dummy to go over untouched.<\/p>\n

With the game ebbing and flowing it was no surprise when Leicester responded.<\/p>\n

They thought they had converted a counter-attack of their own, Hanro Liebenberg diving over in the corner, only for the try to be ruled out for a forward pass, but it proved to be only a temporary setback.<\/p>\n

With Bath struggling horribly in the scrum, Leicester kicked for the corner and the resulting rolling maul proved unstoppable, with Reffell ultimately emerging with the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the clubs’ first meeting since Bath won a closely fought Twickenham showpiece in June, it was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-209493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}