Louis Rees-Zammit scores solo try in comeback win

Gloucester scored 27 unanswered points in the second half to come back from 21-0 down and beat Wasps.

Louis Rees-Zammit ran the length of the field to turn the tide.

The visitors had two players in the sin-bin as Gloucester scored a penalty try to go 22-21 up, with FreddieClarke going over for a bonus point touchdown.

Burger Odendaal had scored a goal.

A minute's silence was held in memory of Queen Elizabeth II before the game began.

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Despite losing Matteo Minozzi to injury in the first half, Wasps played all their rugby.

The television match official ruled that Alfie Barbeary had not opened the scoring before the excellent Atkinson crossed under the posts.

The first time Gloucester had failed to score in the first half at home was in February 2020, when they were 21-0 down at the break.

The game should have been out of sight early in the second half, but an error allowed the Wales wing to sprint clear and score a world-class try.

The Cherry and Whites scored seven points when Biyi Alo stopped a Gloucester try after Tom Willis was yellow carded for collapsing a maul.

After the TMO showed the ball was not in the air, Gloucester successfully defended the final play to earn a seventh victory in eight over their opponents.

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The head coach of Gloucester told a radio station.

We were off in the first half, but we were only a tad off.

The score was not flattering at half-time, but we were a little off what we had tried to execute.

We got a bit sharper in the second half and were more at peace with how we were playing.

He can produce something that can turn a game, and sometimes you need that.

Lee Blackett is the head coach of the club.

We looked in full control, our discipline was second to none, and we were pretty clinical.

If you bought a ticket on the other side of the field, you got your money's worth, didn't you?

We have not walked away with the win but we have walked away with a point.

It would've been great to reward the support we've had from our supporters.

Gloucester: Evans, Harris, Thorley, Hastings Chapman, Elrington, Singleton, Balmain, Craig, Ackermann, and Taylor.

Socino, Rapava-ruskin, Ford-Robinson, Jordan, Tuisue, and Twelvetrees are replacements.

Minozzi, Spink, Odendaal, Bassett, Hislop, Hislop, Ryan, Launchbury, McDonald, T Willis, Sheilds, Barbeary.

Alo, Porter, Mills, Crossdale are replacements.

The referee was Anthony Woodthorpe.