Bath Oust Edinburgh To Reach Challenge Cup Final

Challenge Cup

Edinburgh (10) 24

Tries: Tuipulotu, Price, Penalty Cons: Thompson 2 Pen: Thompson

Bath (12) 49

Tries: Underhill, Dunn 2, Barbeary, Annett, Pepper Cons: Russell 3 Pen: Russell

Bath kept their hopes of a home and European double connected way by beating Edinburgh to seal their spot successful nan Challenge Cup final.

Sam Underhill and Tom Dunn crossed for first-half tries, pinch a Mosese Tuipulotu people and 5 points from nan footwear of Ross Thomson keeping Edinburgh successful touch.

A punishment effort aft nan break edged Edinburgh successful beforehand earlier a 2nd from Dunn and 1 from Alfie Barbeary regained nan inaugural for Bath, and while Ali Price's effort gave Sean Everett's broadside hope, Niall Annett and Guy Pepper touched down precocious connected to spot Bath home.

Bath will look nan winners of Sunday's semi-final betwixt Lyon and Racing 92 successful nan last connected Friday, 23 May successful Cardiff.

The lucifer started successful frantic manner and Price passed up a chance to onslaught early for nan hosts erstwhile he hacked up a loose ball, but reasoning he had put excessively overmuch connected it he momentarily gave up nan chase. The bounce kept nan shot successful nan in-goal area but that hesitation allowed Finn Russell to nip successful up of Price and touch down for a goal-line dropout.

Thompson past sent a reasonably straightforward punishment effort crashing disconnected nan station and moments later Bath struck nan first rustle erstwhile Underhill collapsed complete from adjacent range.

The visitors looked for illustration they were settling into their stride until they were caught retired by a speedy lineout, which led to Tuipulotu going complete and Thomson converting to level things up.

The location broadside were having to do astir of nan defending and nan Bath powerfulness started to show. They were gaining ascendency successful nan scrum and hooker Dunn regained nan lead erstwhile he dotted down aft a beardown rolling lineout maul.

Thomson kicked a punishment to support Edinburgh wrong 2 astatine nan break and they sewage their noses successful beforehand early successful nan 2nd half.

They engineered an overlap retired wide and Wes Goosen looked group to put Darcy Graham complete successful nan area until a cynical knock-on by Tom de Glanville. Yellow paper for De Glanville, a punishment effort and Edinburgh led 17-12.

Bath went backmost down nan different extremity and hammered astatine nan Edinburgh line. They went complete done Beno Obano but a TMO involution showed he had been held up and nan effort was ruled out.

The location broadside were nether immense unit and it was only a matter of clip earlier their defence was breached. Dunn yet went complete for his 2nd try, a c transcript of his first aft a powerful lineout maul.

The Premiership leaders were good connected apical now and substitute Barbeary dived complete for their 4th effort to springiness them a one-score cushion connected nan scoreboard.

Russell kicked 3 points to put Bath 10 points to nan good, but conscionable arsenic nan lucifer appeared to beryllium drifting distant from nan location side, they struck pinch a cracking try.

Thomson ghosted done a spread successful nan midfield and recovered Price moving a awesome support statement to hit nan screen defence and people to bring his broadside backmost wrong three.

The push to snatch a melodramatic triumph did not materialise from Edinburgh and Bath yet made their superiority count pinch precocious tries from substitute Annett and back-row Pepper to seal a deserved victory.