Premiership: Bristol Bears 26-28 Leicester Tigers

Guy Porter (left) dived over for Leicester to spark celebrations

Leicester scored an 84th-minute try with 14 men to win at Bristol and make it 10 wins from 10 Premiership matches.

Fitz Harding finished a Bristol counter but Nemani Nadolo scored after fine footwork to leave Tigers three behind.

Ioan Lloyd's try put Bristol 23-13 up but Julian Montoya went over from a rolling maul and George Ford marshalled play for Porter to give Tigers victory.

At 26-23 down a drop-goal would have been enough for Leicester to preserve their unbeaten record this season but, despite having Jasper Wiese sin-binned for the closing stages, they played phase after phase until Porter was able to profit for his first Premiership try.

The four-point triumph keeps Steve Borthwick's side well clear at the top, while a losing bonus point will be little consolation for Bristol, who remain second-bottom after just three wins from 10 games.

There was a great scrum battle throughout between home prop Kyle Sinckler and Leicester captain Ellis Genge, who will join the Bears next season, which stoked up an already-raucous 20,761-strong crowd at Ashton Gate.

The impressive Harry Randall swooped on a dropped Tigers ball on halfway and rode a challenge to set up Harding for the game's opening try and, while Bristol absorbed pressure well, they could do nothing to stop Matias Moroni deftly teeing up Nadolo for an excellent kick and finish.

Quick-thinking from England scrum-half Randall allowed the returning Semi Radradra to offload for Lloyd to put Bristol in a commanding position, but Leicester fought back to 23-23 to set up a grandstand finish.

When Wiese was sin-binned for a late tackle on Sheedy - who slotted the resulting penalty after missing his previous two kicks at goal - it looked a long way back for Tigers, but they dug deep to make it 14 wins out of 14 in all competitions, with this the most satisfying.

Bristol: Piutau; Fricker, Radradra, Bedlow, Lloyd; Sheedy, Randall; Thomas, Thacker, Sinckler, Joyce, Vui, Luatua (capt), Jeffries, Harding.

Replacements: Capon, Woolmore, Lahiff, Hawkins, Heenan, Uren, O'Conor, Purdy.

Leicester: Steward; Potter, Moroni, Kelly, Nadolo; Ford, B Youngs; Genge (capt), Montoya, Cole, Wells, Green, Martin, Reffell, Van Staden.

Replacements: Dolly, Leatigaga, Heyes, Chessum, Wiese, Wigglesworth, Hegarty, Porter.

Sin-bin: Wiese (72 mins)

Referee: Tom Foley.