English Premiership: French scrumhalf Julien Dupuy kicked Leicester into the English play-off places with seven penalties which denied leaders Gloucester a second successive win at Welford Road.
Dupuy punished Gloucester for an undisciplined display, which included the sin-binning of scrum-half Rory Lawson and lock Alex Brown, with fullback Geordan Murphy putting the seal on victory by slotting a spectacular late drop goal from inside his own half.
Despite dominating for long periods Leicester could not breach a solid Gloucester defence but they did have two tries disallowed. Tom Croft’s was wiped out for a forward pass and Marco Wentzel’s for a foot in touch.
The only try of the match was an interception effort scored by Gloucester’s former England winger Iain Balshaw but the leaders, who struggled in the set pieces, were beaten 24-10.
Danny Care, meanwhile, did his best to show England manager Martin Johnson why he should keep faith with him by serving up a match-winning performance for Harlequins.
Care, under pressure for his England place after being sin-binned when he came off the bench against Ireland last week, provided the spark which led to Quins’ first try for prop Ceri Jones and scored a brilliant second to seal a 21-15 victory over Saracens.
