Stubborn Wasps stun Northampton Saints

Wasps 20 Saints 16

Tense, niggly, hard, fascinating.

Wasps edged this toe-to-toe contest with a
purple patch on the hour when they scored two tries in three minutes.

The
story of the match, though, was less their flutter of points-scoring, but
the way they stopped Saints from matching them.



Wasps had not beaten Saints for 11 matches, a stretch going back to October
2009.

You could tell afterwards how much the victory meant.



It was a massive defensive effort by Wasps.

Saints were the stronger from the
off and dominated periods of possession in Wasps’ 22.

But that was an…