Vermeulen double inspires Exeter to emphatic victory against Gloucester

Gloucester 17-38 ExeterPlayoff chasers score five tries in bonus-point win

A glance at the team sheet suggested this might be a difficult afternoon for Gloucester and so it proved. Exeter’s international contingent, led by Wales’s Dafydd Jenkins and spearheaded by virtuouso displays by England internationals Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Henry Slade, kept their playoff hopes alive with a fluent bonus-point victory.

Slade kicked 13 points – a perfect six out of six – and stylishly contributed to a fluid attacking display from Rob Baxter’s men, who scored five tries. Jacques Vermeulen got two, one in each half, while Dan John and Olly Woodburn crossed before the break and Feyi-Waboso sealed the bonus point after it. Exeter host Harlequins at Sandy Park in a couple of weeks’ time before a final Premiership assignment away against Leicester at Welford Road. While the attack functioned well in this South-West derby, they will need to sharpen up defensively to force their way into the playoffs.

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