• George Ford’s kicks prove decisive
Few will remember this contest with affection but winning ugly, at this precise moment, is perfectly fine with Leicester. Had they lost at home to the league’s basement dwellers Sale and recorded a fourth defeat in five games a proper East Midlands crisis would have had to be declared. As it is, the Tigers now lie seventh in the table, no cause for celebration but enough to call off the hounds for the time being.
To describe this as a revival, though, would be strictly relative. Leicester were outscored by three tries to one and had the Sharks shown even a fraction more composure in their opponents’ 22 the outcome would have been very different. Without George Ford’s all-round influence, Kyle Eastmond’s 13th-minute try and the unceasing efforts of, among others, Guy Thompson and Graham Kitchener, the Tigers might have endured another sorry Sunday.
Written by Robert Kitson at Welford Road
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/30/leicester-sale-premiership-match-report under the title “Kyle Eastmond try helps Leicester pin Sale to the bottom of Premiership”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
