Match Centre: Leicester Tigers 28-13 Gloucester Rugby

Leicester Tigers 28-13 Gloucester Rugby, Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium

Anthony Watson scored a double as Leicester Tigers secured a 28-13 victory over Gloucester in Richard Wigglesworth's first game as interim head coach at Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium on Saturday.

The result also meant Leicester have claimed the inaugural Slater Cup as they climb to the fourth position in the table while Gloucester are at fifth position.

Adam Hastings kicked a seventh minute penalty goal to get Gloucester off the mark but three minutes later they lost Louis Rees-Zammit to an ankle injury.

Freddie Burns with back to back penalties in the 13th and 19th minutes put Leicester in front. Hastings had an opportunity to level the scores in the 31st minute but his three-pointer drifted wide.

With five minutes left for the break, the Tigers thought they got their first try when Jack van Poortvliet broke from the back of a breakdown and put away Dan Kelly to dive but the TMO had ruled it out after Dan Cole seemed to have obstructed a Gloucester player.

Nevertheless, Gloucester managed to get the lead back at the end of the opening half as Albert Tuisue dived over at the back of a driving maul but Hastings missed out on the conversion.

Leicester were the quickest to get off the block in the second half as Guy Porter dummied his way through for their first try and Burns kicked the extras and followed it with a 53rd minute penalty to extend their lead to 16-8.

The lead further extended to 15 points as Watson dived from close range for the first of his two tries in the 57th minute and soon got his second in the 65th minute when with a dive in the corner to make it 28-8. With the closing stage approaching, Jonny May scored his first try of the season but it did not matter as Leicester completed a 15-point victory.

Team line up:

Leicester: Steward, Watson, Porter, Kelly, Potter, Burns, Van Poortvliet; Whitcombe, Clare, Cole, Wells, Chessum, Liebenberg (c), Refell, Cracknell.

Reserves: Oghre, Leatigaga, Heyes, Green, Jansen, Youngs, Atkinson, Ashton.

Gloucester: Carreras, Rees-Zammit, Harris, Atkinson, May, Hastings, Varney; Rapava-Ruskin, Socino, Gotovtsev, Clarke, Alemanno, Ackermann, Ludlow (c), Tuisue.

Reserves: McGuigan, Seville, Knight, Craig, Morgan, Chapman, Kveseladze, Evans