RUGBY- Premiership: Northampton Saints 11-24 Wasps

Dan Robson sets Wasps on their way to victory

Premiership
Northampton: (3) 11
Try: Dickinson Pens: Myler 2
Wasps: (24) 24
Tries: Robson, Miller, Bassett Cons: Gopperth 3 Pen: Gopperth

Wasps comfortably defeated Northampton Saints in difficult conditions to win at Franklin's Gardens for the first time since 2005.

Scrum-half Dan Robson scored Wasps' first try when he found a gap and touched down on the post before Rob Miller crossed from close in.

Josh Bassett's score helped make it 24-3 to the visitors at the break.
Sam Dickinson scored in the corner for Saints in the second half, but Wasps go above them in the Premiership table.

Both sides came into the match on the back of reaching the European Champions Cup quarter-finals thanks to impressive victories last weekend.

But Saints, who made seven changes from their win over Scarlets, struggled to cope with a Wasps team who dealt with the wet conditions better to climb to fifth.

After Robson's impressive score, the visitors increased their lead to 17-0 on 25 minutes when Miller evaded Harry Mallinder's challenge to cross.

Wasps' decision not to pick international quartet Matt Mullan, Elliot Daly, Bradley Davies and Lorenzo Cittadini, despite all having been made available by their countries, looked to have paid dividends when full-back Miller turned provider for Bassett to score a try in just his second appearance of the season.
Stephen Myler kicked Saints' only points of the half, and he was on the scoreboard again after an infringement by Nathan Hughes which led to him being sin-binned.

But Saints failed to score with the numerical advantage, and in a scrappy second half only went over late on when Dickinson finished in the left-hand corner.

Northampton Saints: Mallinder; Elliott, Pisi, Burrell, Collins; Myler, Kessell; Waller, Haywood, Brookes,

Paterson, Matfield, Wood (capt), Harrison, Dickinson.

Replacements: Williams, Waller, Denman, Craig, Day, Dickson, Hanrahan, Wilson.

Wasps: Miller; Halai, Macken, Downey, Bassett; Gopperth, Robson; McIntyre, Shervington, Cooper-
 Woolley, Gaskell, Myall, Rieder, Smith (capt), Hughes.

Replacements: Johnson, Bristow, Swainston, Cannon, Young, Stevenson, Jackson, Tagicakibau.

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