Carreras magic lights up Bath win over Harlequins

Bath caput of rugby Johann van Graan speaking to BBC Radio Somerset:

"I thought we started truly well. I deliberation we managed the archetypal fractional truly good and to spell into the changing country up, distant from home, successful your archetypal league game, that's thing we were truly blessed about.

"We stuck to our DNA, we were pugnacious to bushed and yet we've got to beryllium blessed with that performance. Loads of things to enactment connected but we'll instrumentality an distant triumph successful circular one. We had loads of opportunities.

"Importantly we didn't springiness them a bonus due to the fact that 1 constituent is the biggest and smallest borderline arsenic who knows what volition hap astatine the backmost extremity with points difference."

[On Carreras' try] "That was axenic magic. He's been connected occurrence and I'm truthful gladsome for him. That mightiness beryllium the effort of the play successful circular one. The kick, the regather, the pace, I loved that infinitesimal and it was surely the infinitesimal of the game."

[On Sam Underhill injury] "It looks similar a bicep wounded and helium mightiness beryllium retired for immoderate time."

Harlequins caput manager Jason Gilmore said:

"I'm truly blessed with the grit and the combat that they showed, peculiarly successful the 2nd half.

"We had immoderate monolithic antiaircraft sets connected our extremity line, which we withstood.

"I'm frustrated that we created a batch of enactment breaks but we panicked a small spot astatine the extremity of them and turned implicit acold excessively overmuch shot which released unit disconnected Bath."

Harlequins: Green; Anderson, Beard, Bradley, Murley (c); Slevin, Porter; Hobson, Walker, Delgado, Dun, Browne, Kenningham, Evans, Cunningham-South.

Replacements: Riley, Wenger, Johnson-Holmes, Treadwell, Petti, Friday, Bellamy, Isgro.

Sin-bin: Riley (53)

Bath: Carreras; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Ojomoh, De Glanville; Russell, Carr-Smith; Obano, Frost, Stuart, Hill, Ewels (c), Bayliss, Underhill, Du Preez.

Replacements: Tuipulotu, Kirk, Griffin, Richards, Pepper, Van der Linde, Redpath, Reid.

Referee: Karl Dickson