Premiership: Worcester Warriors 5-34 Leicester Tigers

Warriors try scorer Alofoti Fa'osiliva also crossed the whitewash in the win over the Tigers at Welford Road in November

Leicester boosted their hopes of a top-four finish as they claimed a third-straight Premiership win with a bonus-point victory at Worcester.

Wing Jonah Holmes and prop Greg Bateman both ran in first-half tries either side of Alofoti Fa'osiliva crossing for the Warriors for a 12-5 interval lead.

After Matt Toomua's penalty, Leicester stretched clear with three late tries.

Full-back Telusa Veainu went in for two of them, either side of one for Manu Tuilagi.

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The bonus point gained from those three tries in the final 12 minutes lifts the Tigers three places to fifth, within three points of fourth-placed Newcastle.

Worcester caused an upset when they won 31-27 at Leicester in November, their first win at Welford Road. But, after home flanker Fa'osiliva had quickly cancelled out Holmes' early try and Bateman had put the Tigers in front, the visitors always looked likely to gain revenge.

Toomua's penalty stretched them two scores clear and it was the Australian's clever chip over the top that finally opened the floodgates 12 minutes from time when Veainu galloped in to score.

England centre Tuilagi again offered a nudge to national team head coach Eddie Jones with a fourth for the extra point - and there was still time almost straight from the restart for Veainu to race clear for his second.

On a day when academy centre Will Butler came off the bench to replace the injured Ryan Mills for his Premiership debut, defeat leaves 11th-placed Worcester still 12 points clear of bottom club London Irish - but now with just five games left.

Worcester director of rugby Alan Solomons:

"We have got to be aware of where London Irish are, so them losing with no points is obviously of benefit to us.

"After last week's disappointing effort at London Irish, it was a much better performance from us, but we made too many mistakes, gave away crucial penalties and spent a lot of time pinned deep in our half.

"The final score didn't reflect play or our effort, but they played an attritional game and it worked well for them."

Leicester head coach Matt O'Connor:

"I'm really proud of our efforts as our attitude after last week's win was fantastic. We are getting better week by week. We were pretty proficient in that second half.

"It was a tough game and it was close with 15 minutes to go but we had the stronger bench and were the more accurate.

"We are building momentum ahead of the final six-week block, but I'm glad we've now got a break so we can freshen the players up and prime them for the run-in."

Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Willison, Mills, Adams; Shillcock, Arr; Waller, Singleton, Schonert, Barry, Spencer, Denton, Fa'osiliva, van Velze (capt).

Replacements: Butler (for Mills, 18), Baldwin (for Arr, 53), Bower (for Waller, 53), Hammond (for Baldwin, 60), Milasinovich (for Schonert, 65), O'Callaghan (for Barry, 65), Cox (for Denton, 68),

Not used: Haupt.

Leicester Tigers: Veainu; Thompstone, Tuilagi, Tait, Holmes; Toomua, Harrison; Bateman, Youngs (capt), Mulipola, Fitzgerald, Kitchener, Williams, O'Connor, Kalamafoni.

Replacements: Polota-Nau, Rizzo, Cilliers, Wells, Hamilton, Simmons, Ford, Malouf.

Referee: Luke Pearce.