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Michael Cheika at half-time behind Leicester’s counter-attack

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Michael Cheika at half-time behind Leicester’s counter-attack

Leicester boss Michael Cheika revealed a rocket at half-time helped his side overcome an eight-try thriller against Gloucester.

The visitors, playing some high-quality and enterprising rugby, raced into a 19-8 lead at the interval with Max Llewellyn, likely to be included in the Welsh squad for their autumn internationals, scoring a hat-trick essays

Freddie Thomas got the other, with Santi Carreras adding three conversions as his attacking style rocked the Tigers.

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However, it was a completely different story after the interval as the home side took control to score four tries from Josh Bassett, Dan Kelly, Ollie Hassell-Collins and Handre Pollard, who also kicked a penalty and three conversions for a game tally of 14 points.

After watching his side claim the Ed Slater Cup, Cheika said: “I spoke the truth at half-time as we seemed to have the idea that victory was going to be handed to us and it didn’t happen that way.

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“Gloucester are a good team and if you get away from them and let them play, they will hurt you and that’s what we did.

“We showed a lot more physicality in the second half and tackled aggressively, so Handre (Pollard) was able to have a platform to show what he could do with more possession.

“However, we should have started when we were 10 points up, but credit to Gloucester for hanging on and stopping us.”

Gloucester manager George Skivington was frustrated that his side had managed just two points.

“Before the season started we probably would have taken two points but I think that was a missed opportunity not to have taken more,” he said.

“Our attack was very good but we still gave up three or four tries and individual mistakes at crucial times cost us.

“The Tigers came out firing in the second half, but in that first 10-minute period our mistakes put them in a position where they could really make it count.

“Our lineout was bad last week and we missed a few today but I’m still frustrated with just two points as I think we were better than that.”

Skivington also praised hat-trick hero Llewellyn ahead of tomorrow’s Wales squad announcement.

He said: “I’m incredibly happy with how he’s developed in the last 12 months and all I can say is that Wales must have strong values ​​if they can’t find room to elect him.”

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