Saracens 29-40 Wasps

Wasps brushed aside Saracens at Vicarage Road to take a huge step towards the Guinness Premiership play-offs. The win, which lifted Wasps to third, means Ian McGeechan's side have now claimed 14 points from three games in the past week, as well as winning eight games on the bounce.

Fly-half Danny Cipriani was pivotal in three of Wasps' five first-half tries, but it was Francisco Leonelli who opened the scoring, crossing the line for Sarries after a deft pass from Richard Haughton. Wasps hooker Raphael Ibanez replied from the restart, gathering the loose ball and barreling over the line after Joe Worsley had disrupted Hugh Vyvyan's attempt to claim Cipriani's kick-off.

And Wasps were in front two minutes later after an awful pass on his own line from Adam Powell went behind both Kevin Sorrell and Leonelli, whose failure to claim the bouncing ball allowed Tom Voyce to pounce. The onslaught continued as Cipriani dummied Sorrell and glided through a hole before feeding Dominic Waldouck who raced home.

The next 10 minutes were positively barren in comparison, but Cipriani had the travelling support on their feet again on 21 minutes when he collected a poor Neil de Kock clearance, looked over to the right wing and lofted an inch-perfect kick for Paul Sackey to seal the bonus point.

Leonelli hit back with his second just after the half-hour mark but Wasps had a fifth on the stroke of half-time when Cipriani snaked outside Haughton to again offload to Waldouck for his second. Eoin Reddan got in on the act after the break when he dummied Paul Gustard 40 metres out and raced home to take Wasps to the 40-point mark.

Leonelli kept Saracens's faint hopes alive by completing his hat-trick after 54 minutes, and the home side soon scored a fourth, Haughton capitalizing after James Haskell was sent to the sin bin. Saracens captain de Kock hauled them even closer when he wriggled from a clutch of bodies to scamper over and had Glen Jackson not missed three out of his five conversion attempts plus an early penalty this would have been a much tighter affair.