English Premiership round-up: London Irish failed at the death to send Bath packing in the English Premiership as they went down 16-20 at the Madjeski Stadium. Irish could have expected a good afternoon after they pushed Leicester to within two points at Welford Road but, almost from the start of the match, the Exiles were on the back foot.

It did not help head coach Toby Booth either that he had seven men out of action through injury, although that was no excuse for a first half in which Bath punished too many mistakes.

And although visiting fly-half Butch James, who saw all five kicks go wide in his team's first home league defeat to arch-rivals Gloucester last week, began in the same vein he did manage to land two goals, one from in front of the posts and another from 30 metres.

It was a day when the boot again was a dominant factor in the contest. For Irish full-back Peter Hewat and fly-half Eoghan Hickey both missed two shots at goal which, if successful, would have given their team the advantage.

Frenchman Julien Dupuy was Leicester's unlikely hero as Tigers maintained their unbeaten start with a 19-17 win over Worcester. The former Biarritz scrum-half stole Worcester's thunder in front of a record 10,500-plus Sixways crowd, scoring a late try that he also converted.

Dupuy, pressed into emergency kicking duty while Toby Flood served time in the sin-bin, provided an assured presence throughout a fast and furious contest.

Flood chipped in with four penalties, denying the Warriors a second notable scalp inside a week following their one-point win against champions Wasps last Sunday.

Worcester scored tries through prop Matt Mullan and number eight Netani Talei, and while fly-half Loki Crichton slotted two conversions and a penalty, Warriors were also guilty of four missed kicks.

It was Leicester's third successive win under their new South African coach Heyneke Meyer.

But Worcester, who lost star Australian full-back Chris Latham after he was on the receiving end of a crunching second-half collision, will feel it was a game that slipped away.

Gloucester made it back to back victories with a 24-20 win over Harlequins to knock their opponents off the top of the table after fly-half Chris Malone had an off day with the boot.

Malone missed out on 10 first-half points with some wayward kicking, failing to land two penalties and two conversions.