- Wasps 16-13 Leicester
- Fly-half Jimmy Gopperth kicks hosts to victory
So Leicester are beatable after all. Few would have predicted that an injury-ravaged Wasps would be the team to end the sequence but, at the 16th time of asking in all competitions, the rampant Tigers have finally been tamed. It was a deserved outcome, too, for a Wasps side who lacked 16 front‑line players and had to display serious character to weather a concerted late siege on their own line.
While one result does not entirely level the Midlands playing field – Leicester remain eight points ahead at the top – it will do wonders for Wasps’ self-image after a horrendous run of luck that has deprived them of many of their biggest names. On this occasion, though, they steadfastly refused to bow to the seemingly inevitable in the final quarter after three second-half penalties from Jimmy Gopperth had put them ahead with 11 minutes of an absorbing contest remaining.
