Gloucester comfortably beat scoreless Harlequins

Gallagher Premiership

Gloucester (14) 14

Tries: Hathaway, Clement Cons: Carreras 2 Pens:

Harlequins (0) 0

Two first-half tries were enough to secure a comfortable Premiership victory for Gloucester against under-par Harlequins at Kingsholm.

Converted scores from Josh Hathaway and Jack Clement gave Gloucester a 14-0 lead at the break.

The hosts dominated at the breakdown and scrum for most of the game but missed chances to close the match out, while the visitors made a series of mistakes in offence as both sides failed to score in the second half.

Harlequins failed to score a point in a Premiership game for the first time in more than 10 years.

The result leaves the Cherry and Whites fifth in the table and level on points with fourth-placed Saracens, while Harlequins stay seventh with 19 points from seven games.

More to follow.

Gloucester: Carreras; Wade, Llewellyn, Atkinson, Hathaway; Anscombe, Williams; Rapava-Ruskin, Blake, Fasogbon; Thomas, Alemanno, Clement, Ludlow, Ackermann

Replacements: Singleton, Knight, Gotovtsev, Jordan, Tuisue, Englefield, Harris, Barton

Harlequins: Green; Isgro, Beard, Anyanwu, Murley; Smith, Porter; Baxter, Walker, Kerrod; Lamb, Hammond; Cunningham-South, W Evans, Dombrandt

Replacements: Riley, Jones, Lewis, Herbst, Chisholm, Care, J Evans, David

Referee: Christophe Ridley