Premiership: Exeter Chiefs 24-15 Gloucester - Chiefs end three-game losing streak

Exeter winger Olly Woodburn scored his second try in his past three games

Exeter ended a three-game losing run in style with a 24-15 win over Gloucester.

Freddie Clarke put Gloucester ahead with their first attack, but Exeter drew level when Jack Innard scored.

Patrick Schickerling's try for Exeter nine minutes after the break came after Billy Twelvetrees had been sin-binned.

Olly Woodburn went over with the extra man and Tom O'Flaherty secured a bonus point before Santiago Carreras and Charlie Chapman's tries after a yellow card for Exeter's Dafydd Jenkins.

Exeter, who had lost to Wasps, London Irish and Montpellier in the past three weeks, avoided four successive defeats for the first time since November 2016 and move back into the Premiership's top six.

Gloucester remain third but have played a game more than the sides either side of them.

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Exeter almost went in front inside three minutes, but Don Armand failed to gather Joe Simmonds' crossfield kick from five metres out with the tryline beckoning.

Gloucester struck with their first chance - Ollie Thorley's break set up field position and Clarke went over in the corner after quick passing to the right.

Despite going behind Exeter dominated early possession and had long periods on the Gloucester line. They were held up by some excellent defending as they tried to go over time and again, with the pressure eventually telling as Innard was mauled over from a line-out 13 minutes before the break.

Exeter started the second half in a similar vein - Twelvetrees was yellow-carded after a series of infringements by Gloucester with Exeter in close, and soon after Schickerling crossed for his second Chiefs try.

Simmonds' perfectly-weighted kick into the space left by Twelvetrees allowed Woodburn a simple try and O'Flaherty scored for the second successive week nine minutes after that following a fantastic break by replacement scrum-half Jack Maunder.

Exeter had Dafydd Jenkins yellow-carded for pulling down a maul 14 minutes from full-time and Gloucester struck - Thorley was again at the centre of the action as his pass set Carreras free before Chapman pounced on an error to score with six minutes left.

Exeter head coach Ali Hepher told BBC Radio Devon:

"It's not really about today, it's been how we've been training, the buzz around the place, the energy that we've put into training.

"We should have closed out last week and we were disappointed but credit to the guys, to put that emotion back into another game is sometimes the hardest thing to do, especially against a real quality side in Gloucester.

"I can't say enough about these boys, the energy that they're putting into training and the feel around the place is really exciting and we move forward."

Gloucester head coach George Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:

"I thought Exeter were very smart today, I think we probably made a few poor decisions, particularly in the first half, that put ourselves under massive pressure.

"I think we had four minutes of possession in that whole first half so I think that was a fair reflection of the game.

"They probably understood the wind a little bit better and took advantage of their moments better than we did."

Exeter: Hodge; Woodburn, Whitten, Hendrickson, O'Flaherty; J Simmonds (capt), Hidalgo-Clyne; Hepburn, Innard, Schickerling, Kirsten, Jenkins, Armand, Capstick, Grondona.

Replacements: Yeandle, Keast, Street, Ewers, Leatherbarrow, J Maunder, H Skinner, Cordero.

Sin-bin: Jenkins (66)

Gloucester: Moyle; Carreras, Kveseladze, Twelvetrees, Thorley; Evans, Meehan; Ford-Robinson, Singleton, Balmain, Clarke, Alemanno, Reid, Ludlow (capt) Ackermann.

Replacements: Socino, Elrington, Gotovtsev, Davidson, Clement, Chapman, Hastings, Seabrook.

Sin-bin: Twelvetrees (47)

Referee: Tom Foley (RFU).