Bath come from behind to beat Gloucester

Bath came from behind to beat Gloucester 6-15 and hand the Cherry and Whites their third loss at Kingsholm this season.

James Hook scored the only points of the first half as both teams tried to handle the wet conditions.

After the break Bath levelled the scores with a George Ford drop goal before Greig Laidlaw put Gloucester back ahead.

Anthony Watson scored the only try of the match and Laidlaw missed two penalties as Matt Banahan sealed the victory for Bath.

Final Score Gloucester (3) 6 Bath (0) 15

Scorers

Gloucester
Tries –
Pen – Hook, Laidlaw
Con –
Drop –

Bath
Tries – Watson, Banahan
Pen –
Con – Ford
Drop – Ford

Team

Gloucester: Hook; Sharples, Twelvetrees, Atkinson, Purdy; Burns, Laidlaw (c); McAllister, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Galarza, Moriarty, Rowan, Morgan.

Replacements: Dawidiuk, Thomas, Doran-Jones, Latta, Kvesic, Heinz, Scott, Halaifonua.

Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Brew, Banahan, Watson; Ford (co-captain), Fotuali’i; Catt, Dunn, Thomas, Ewels, Stooke, Garvey (co-captain), Ellis, Houston.

Replacements: Batty, Auterac, Palma-Newport, Attwood, Z Mercer, Cook, Jennings, Williams.