GLOUCESTER 21 WASPS 27 Robson drops in to clinch it

TRY TIME: Charlie Atkinson scores the third for Wasps

WASPS boss Lee Blackett insisted Dan Robson is the man for a crisis after his drop goal kept his side’s play-off hopes alive and dented Gloucester’s.

Scrum-half Robson landed a 45-metre kick to nudgewasps ahead with seven minutes left.

Jimmy Gopperth nailed a late penalty to make it a six-point game and Gloucester spent the dying seconds camped on the Wasps line looking for a winner.

Wasps sealed their first league win at Kingsholm since 2014 and former Gloucester player Robson his first at the ground in a black jersey.

Blackett said: “That drop-kick probably won us the game in the end. If there is one player in our team I would want to take a drop-kick, Dan Robson is 100 per cent that player.

“If you went out at the start and end of training, you would see him do about 50.

“We put him on when things could have gone either way and he showed his maturity.”

Gloucester were 6-0 up after a dire first half but the second half exploded into life thanks to Jacob

Umaga’s 75-metre try from a chargedown.

Wasps led 14-11 when Robson arrived on the scene before Adam Hastings levelled it up for the hosts.the visitors went ahead again when Robson put Charlie Atkinson through a hole, while Gloucester were down to 14 men thanks to Louis Rees-zammit’s sin-binning.

Gloucester won a penalty try,wasps had replacement hooker Dan Frost yellow-carded and Robson and Gopperth did their stuff to deny the hosts.

Gloucester boss George Skivington moaned: “I thought the better team won.we created a lot of pressure in the first half and didn’t come away with the points we needed.”

Exeter Chiefs trailed at half-time, then scored 21 points without reply to beat Bath 42-22.

Tom Collins scored two of Northampton Saints’ five tries in the 39-22 home victory over Bristol.