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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Aylwin at Ashton Gate

Saracens go top as Elliot Daly inspires thrilling comeback win over Bristol

Elliot Daly stretches to score the first of his two tries which kickstarted Saracens’s superb comeback win.
Elliot Daly stretches to score the first of his two tries which kickstarted Saracens’s superb comeback win. Photograph: Ryan Hiscott/Getty Images

Yet another match report with absolutely no hope of capturing everything that went on. Blame the players who keep raising the bar, even when clearing the last one seems too exhausting an idea to contemplate.

Headline is, Saracens won. They did it with a penalty, Alex Lozowski’s third, with the last kick of the match for a win by two points in a game featuring 72 of them. Lozowski did not miss a kick, but it says something that he was only mid-table in any ranking of individual performances.

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