Premiership: London Irish 43-12 Worcester Warriors - Exiles romp to seven-try win

Worcester old boy Agustin Creevy is the Premiership's leading try scorer after taking his London Irish try tally to 11 this season

London Irish moved into the Premiership top four as they crushed 14-man Worcester with a seven-try display.

Scores from Argentine trio Gus Creevy, against his old club, Lucio Cinti and Juan Gonzalez helped Irish to a 17-0 lead before Noah Heward replied for Worcester on the stroke of half-time.

Creevy added a second before Worcester lost Duhan van der Merwe to a red card for a forearm to the face of Kyle Rowe.

Curtis Rona, Paddy Jackson and Ben White crossed before Heward's second.

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Irish, who lost at Worcester on the opening weekend of the season, are on a four-game unbeaten Premiership run, their best since October 2010, having completed four straight home wins for the first time since the spring of 2011.

Warriors' biggest defeat under new boss Steve Diamond sent them to the bottom of the Premiership after being overhauled by Bath's dramatic derby victory over Bristol.

It was the 20th loss of a 21-match away winless Premiership run, and the sixth time they have conceded 35-plus points in nine away trips this season.

Curtis Rona scored London Irish's fifth try at the Brentford Community Stadium

Gusty and wet conditions dictated a scruffy first half as Worcester started well but wasted several promising spells by conceding penalties.

After Billy Searle scuffed an early Worcester penalty attempt wide, a turnover sparked Irish into life, when Creevy forced his way over.

Indiscipline cost Warriors dear when Chris Judge was shown a yellow card and moments later, Nick Phipps' sublime no-look pass behind his back created a two-on-one to give Cinti a simple finish.

Gonzalez completed an Argentine hat-trick before Heward spotted a gap when Warriors finally capitalised on a good spell to earn some momentum going into the break.

It stung the hosts into action, as a fired-up Irish extended their lead moments into the second half, when Creevy went clear as top Premiership try scorer this season with his 11th of the campaign.

The game was up for Worcester when Scotland and Lions wing Van der Merwe was sent off six minutes into the second half and, when James Stokes sprinted away to tee up Rona, Jackson picked up a loose ball to stroll in.

Ben White added a seventh try from close range, but Warriors had the final say through Heward's acrobatic finish - his fourth of the campaign, to tie him with van der Merwe and Ash Beck as Warriors joint top scorer, and his third in two games.

But, if Van der Merwe picks up any sort of suspension as a result of his red card at Tuesday's forthcoming disciplinary hearing, it could sideline him for both Worcester and Scotland, who play Italy in Rome next Saturday.

London Irish head coach Les Kiss told BBC Radio London 94.9:

"We've got to be happy. It's a scoreline we haven't put on for a while.

"The 17-5 score at half-time probably reflected that we didn't play our game well enough.

"Our intensity was a bit down but, in the second half the boys certainly fixed that.

"If there's anything I'm disappointed with, it was when the card happened we were probably a little bit shabby, tried to play a little bit to the edges rather than being direct, but the boys got a little excited I guess and wanted to put on a big score which they did."

Warriors boss Steve Diamond told BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester:

"It was probably a harsh red, but was definitely a yellow. But I don't think that was really the difference. It was done and dusted either side of half-time.

"You can blame the referee however much you want, but the referee didn't make half as many mistakes as we did. Our heads went down and that's when you realise the calibre of people.

"I am disappointed really. I thought we had grown over the last two or three weeks but our discipline and work-rate let us down.

"I know where we're at in certain positions, and the jury is out with three or four others. They are going to be difficult decisions, but I think they've got to be made."

London Irish: Stokes; Rowe, Rona, van Rensburg, Cinti; Jackson, Phipps (capt); Gigena, Creevy, Hoskins, Munga, Simmons, Cracknell, Gonzalez, O'Brien.

Replacements: Cornish, Dell, Van der Merwe, Nott, Tuisue, White, Cokanasiga, Arundell.

Worcester: Heward; Humphreys, Beck, Atkinson, Van der Merwe; Searle, Heinz; Waller, Miller, Judge, Clegg, A Kitchener, Batley, Hill (capt), Vailanu.

Replacements: Cutting, Owen, Owlet, Forsythe, Kvesic, Simpson, Smith, Hearle.

Sin-bin: Judge (25).

Sent off: van der Merwe (46).

Referee: Jack Makepeace (RFU).

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