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Flood boots Leicester into Premiership final

Article Published: Monday 17 May 2010

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England and Leicester Tigers fly half kicked five penalties as the Tigers beat Bath 15-6 and secured a place in the 2010 Guiness Premiership at Twickenham.
 
In the final Leicester will face Saracens who beat Northampton Saints in the earlier Semi-final. In round 22 (last week) Saracens beat Leicester at Welford Road.

Leicester Tigers will be number one seeds and will be the home team. Saracens as number three seeds will be the away team.

Olly Barkley put Bath ahead in the twelfth minute with his penalty kick before doubling the lead nine minutes later.

He had the opportunity to make it three but suffered a missed attempt to put his side on six points.

In the 23rd minute Toby Flood responded for the Tigers when he sent a penalty through the posts, and he levelled in the 36th with his second effort to make the scores even at 6-all at the break.

Flood added two more penalties midway through the second half after missing one in the opening minutes.

And with seven minutes of the clash remaining he kicked a third to see Leicester finish nine points ahead.

The win sets Leicester up for a Premiership final against Saracens, making it their sixth final in as many seasons.

Final Score Leicester Tigers 15 (6) Bath 6 (6)

Scorers

Leicester Tigers
Tries -
Pen - Flood 5
Con -
Drop -

Bath
Tries -
Pen - Barkley 2
Con -
Drop -

Referee: Chris White (179th Premiership game).
Assistant Referees: Paul Dix and Dave Pearson.
TMO: David Matthews.

Teams

Leicester Tigers : 15 Geordan Murphy (c) , 14 Scott Hamilton , 13 Matt Smith , 12 Anthony Allen , 11 Alesana Tuilagi , 10 Toby Flood , 9 Ben Youngs , 1 Marcos Ayerza , 2 George Chuter , 3 Martin Castrogiovanni , 4 Louis Deacon , 5 Geoff Parling , 6 Tom Croft , 7 Lewis Moody , 8 Jordan Crane

Replacements , 16 Joe Duffey , 17 Dan Cole , 18 Boris Stankovich , 19 Craig Newby , 20 Ben Woods , 21 James Grindal , 22 Jeremy Staunton , 23 Johne Murphy

Bath Rugby : 15. Nick Abendanon , 14. Joe Maddock , 13. Matt Carraro , 12. Olly Barkley , 11. Matt Banahan , 10. Butch James , 9. Michael Claassens (c) , 1. David Flatman , 2. Lee Mears , 3. David Wilson , 4. Stuart Hooper , 5. Danny Grewcock , 6. Andy Beattie , 7. Julian Salvi , 8. Luke Watson

16. Pieter Dixon , 17. David Barnes , 18. Duncan Bell , 19. Peter Short , 20. Ben Skirving , 21. Mike Baxter , 22. Ryan Davis , 23. Shontayne Hape

 
 
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