Leicester Tigers Secure Play-Off Spot with Dominant Win Over Sale Sharks
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- Leicester Tigers secured their place in the Prem play-offs with a convincing 47-33 victory over Sale Sharks.
- The Tigers dominated for large periods, scoring multiple tries, while Sale managed a late bonus point but were outplayed for the majority of the match.
KI-generierte Zusammenfassung
Leicester Tigers secured their spot in the Prem play-offs with a comfortable 47-33 win over a defensively frail Sale Sharks at the CorpAcq Stadium.
The Tigers dominated much of the game, with Ollie Chessum, Jamie Blamire and Joaquin Moro crossing the whitewash early on.
Sale struck back through Tom Roebuck and Jacques Vermeulen before a slew of Tigers tries either side of half-time from Joe Heyes, Will Wand, Ollie Hassell-Collins and Archie van der Flier put the match beyond them.
With the game gone, Sale woke up, claiming a bonus point of their own through late tries from Ernst van Rhyn, Sam Dugdale and Arron Reed, but they will be left ruing a performance in which they were comprehensively outplayed for 60 minutes.
It took Leicester, fresh from their demolition of local rivals Northampton Saints last week, less than two minutes to put points on the board.
Following Will Wand's break down the wing, Leicester recycled down the short side with Hassell-Collins finding space before feeding Chessum to go over untouched.
Sale soon responded with a well-worked try of their own. Off the back of a ruck, Rekeiti Ma'asi-White accelerated away before feeding Joe Carpenter.
It appeared the full-back had held on to the ball for too long, but he eventually recycled it with Roebuck completing the move to score in the corner.
Blamire then restored Leicester's lead, rolling over from an attacking maul as Sale ran out of defenders.
Leicester found themselves once again in an attacking position soon after and as the Sale scrum splintered, Moro dived over to increase the lead to 16 points.
Having been camped in their own half for much of the first half, Sale got a break.
Leicester were penalised on their own scrum allowing the returning Raffi Quirke to scamper towards the try line, but after the scrum-half was hauled down, Vermeulen then spotted a gap and dived through for an unlikely score.
Undeterred, Leicester claimed their try bonus point on the verge of half-time when Joe Heyes, on his 100th club start, powered over from short range as Sale's red zone defence once again proved porous.
