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Exeter Chiefs v Gloucester - Slade clinches Chiefs' Gallagher Premiership derby win at the death

Premiership / Regular
Sandy Park / 19.11.2023
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Adam Dickinson

Updated 19/11/2023 at 17:27 GMT


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EXETER CHIEFS STEAL STUNNING DERBY WIN
Henry Slade hit a dramatic penalty to clinch a victory for Exeter with the last kick of the game, capping a dramatic comeback for the Chiefs after they trailed Gloucester by nine points with just a few minutes to go at Sandy Park.
The visitors were very good value for their two league points in defeat, only taking the lead for the first time in the match with 12 minutes left on the clock before Seb Atkinson extended that lead just moments later.
However, Slade led an impassioned team talk under the posts and his side repaid the faith when Stu Townsend leapt over a ruck to score and give his centre a straightforward conversion, cutting the lead to two.
It had been an incredibly tight West Country derby throughout, but there was one final twist in the tale when Chris Harris was penalised for not rolling away and Slade showed nerves of steel to clinch the win.
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FULL TIME: EXETER CHIEFS 25-24 GLOUCESTER
Nerves of steel from Slade, Skivington looks sick. Exeter were nine points down with just a few minutes to go, how have they rescued that?
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KICK IS GOOD
EXETER WIN!!!
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EXETER PENALTY!!!
They've got it over halfway, Sandy Park is electric... and Harris gives away the penalty at the meeting of the ten and 15 metres lines on the left. Can Slade cap a remarkable comeback?
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TRY! EXETER 22-24 GLOUCESTER
Stu Townsend's been heavily involved for better and worse since entering the fray, this time he dives acrobatically over the ruck and touches down, conversion to come... And it's GOOD!!!
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EXETER RESPOND
Joe Hawkins is PUMPED! He snaffles a turnover penalty and though a second consectuive lineout goes awry Exeter charge it down to save the attack.
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TRY! EXETER 15-24 GLOUCESTER
Exeter never got organised in defence and Alemanno nearly crashed over combining brilliantly with Socino. But that stop just delays the inevtiable, Seb Atkinson dummies from the 9 position and leaps over, though Barton's conversion is wide.
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GLOUCESTER KNOCKING AGAIN
They've been a different side this second half, Gloucester's kick is touched in mid-air and Clement crashes up to the 22, the visitors are pouring forwards in waves...
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TRY! EXETER 15-19 GLOUCESTER
Rob Baxter predicted someone needed to take control of the game, and Rees-Zammit might've just done it. The wind steps up first-reciever, pirouettes away from Townsend then steps hard off his right to evade two more Chiefs and scores. Barton''s extras are inch-perfect too.
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TOWNSEND UNDOES HIS GOOD WORK
Stu Townsend's second album isn't so successful though, he box-kicks straight out then concedes another 10 metres arguiing his point with Ian Tempest.
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LAST ROLL OF THE DICE?
Vintcent replaces Roots and Olly Woodburn's also on... for a few seconds before he's called off for a HIA.
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GLOUCESTER BREAK FORWARD
Barton and Clement have been menaces at the lineout, again they combine to break into Exeter's 22.
Rees-Zammit can't reach the subsequent cross-field kick though and Townsend produces a superb 45-metre box-kick.
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MORE CHANGES
Lewis Pearson and Stu Townsend had joined the party for Exeter at second-row and scrum-half.
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PENALTY EXETER!
It didn't remain all square for long though, Gloucester concede the penalty and Slade makes no mistake from 45 metres out.
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TRY! EXETER 12-12 GLOUCESTER
Everything about that attack was better from Gloucester. Thorley makes a bustling carry from the lineout and Gloucester continue the momentum before swinging back left, Atkinson finds a glorious tip-on to Carreras and Thorley takes the spoils. Barton's conversion clangs against the upright though and we're all square.
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GLOUCESTER RESPOND
George Skivington fires his first tactical salvo with a new front row of Harry Elrignton, Kirill Gotovtsev and Santiago Socino who makes his first throw of the night to set up a Gloucester attack.
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BAXTER: WE NEED TO TAKE CHARGE
Exeter's Rob Baxter told TNT Sports what will make the difference in this game:
Somebody really taking charge of the game, it just feels like we're having moments but not quite seeing them off."
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