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Cheika: Tough feeling but one that will help us going forward

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Leicester Tigers head coach, Michael Cheika has reacted to Tigers' 20-15 defeat at home to Bath. 

Cheika admitted errors cost Tigers the game.

"It was pretty obvious to see that there were back to back errors that really hit us," Cheika said.

"Some of those things in isolation you can get away with but we went one, two, three in a row and it put us in some bad field positions.

"In the second half, we started looking at the scoreboard a bit instead of just getting after the game and it takes a bit of time to build that confidence. It’s a tough feeling but one that will help us going forward as it’s not a feeling we want to have."

Tigers went into the changing rooms at half-time with a lead thanks to some gritty defence and fantastic Jack van Poortvliet try.

"The positives are about a continual evolution for us," Cheika said.

"The resilience we showed in the first half, with our goal line defence, really continued what we saw last week and then we put ourselves in a difficult position.

"The game’s played over two halves. No point being happy about the first unless you go on and finish it in the second. There were good signs in the first half but the second half I thought the opposition dictated the tempo of the match, as I said, when we should have been going at them."