Northampton Saints head coach Sam Vesty told BBC Radio Northampton:<\/p>\n
“Both teams took opportunities pretty quickly and I think both teams will be slightly disappointed in how they exited their end, in terms of when they’ve got the ball and got control of it.<\/p>\n
“We gave it up quite a lot to them and put ourselves defensively under pressure We’re not happy with the 48 part of that scoreline. <\/p>\n
“We don’t want it to be basketball. Obviously lots and lots of very good stuff but there’s a good couple of areas for us to focus to be better – a more ruthless Bath and that’s a very different game.<\/p>\n
[On the attack] “We were so clinical with our execution of what we were doing. Absolutely fantastic. <\/p>\n
“I thought our breakdown was very good, lots and lots of positives but we need to be better coming out of our end.”<\/p>\n
Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Bristol:<\/p>\n
“It’s dsappointing if you score 48 points away from home and lose the game.<\/p>\n
“I think we lost control between minutes 50 and 60. The back end of both halves we conceded a yellow card and against a team like Saints it’s difficult to contain them.<\/p>\n
“But look at the positives, we played some fantastic rugby today.”<\/p>\n
Northampton: Pater; Freeman, Hutchinson, Dingwall (c), Sleightholme; Smith, Mitchell; Iyogun, Langdon, Kundiona; Coles, Van Der Mescht, Kemeny, Pollock, Chick.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Smith, Fischetti, Neculai, Lockett, Prowse, Taylor, McParland, Belleau.<\/p>\n
Bath: Carreras; Cokanasiga, Ojomoh, Redpath, C. Griffin; Russell, Carr-Smith; Kirk, Tuipulotu, A. Griffin; Jeanes, Molony, Bayliss, Reid (c), Green.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Dunn, Obano, Stuart, Ewels, Hill, Davies, Lawrence, Coetzee.<\/p>\n
Sin bin: Bayliss (26) Lawrence (62)<\/p>\n
Referee: Matthew Carley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints head coach Sam Vesty told BBC Radio Northampton: “Both teams took opportunities pretty quickly and I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798571","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=798571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}