Sale secure home play-off with win at Gloucester

Sale's Jono Ross dives scored his side's second try in the win over Gloucester

Sale secured a home play-off semi-final with a hard-fought victory over Gloucester who have now lost five Premiership games in a row.

The visitors lost Tom Curry and Manu Tuilagi to yellow cards before Gloucester took the lead through Lewis Ludlow and Louis Rees-Zammit.

But Jono Ross and Sam James earned victory before Jonny May's late try.

The win means Sale, in second, cannot be caught by third-placed Leicester, while Gloucester, who were very much in the play-off picture not too long ago, now find themselves 10th after a poor end to the campaign.

More to follow.

Gloucester: Carreras, Rees-Zammit, Harris, Atkinson, May, Hastings, Varney; Vivas, McGuigan, Gotovtsev, Clarke, Alemanno, Clement, Ludlow, Morgan.

Replacements: Blake, Elrington, Ford-Robinson, Jordan, Thomas, Chapman, Twelvetrees, Hearle.

Sale: Carpenter, Roebuck, R du Preez, Tuilagi, Reed, Ford, Warr; McIntryre, van der Merwe, Schonert, JL du Preez, Hill, T Curry, B Curry, Ross.

Replacements: Ashman, Rodd, Oosthuizen, Beaumont, Dugdale, Quirke, James, McGuigan.

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