London Irish: 22 (15) Try: Staniforth Con: Everitt Pens: Everitt (5) Leicester: 39 (19) Tries: Corry, Rabeni, B Deacon, Goode, Healey Cons: Goode (4) Pens: Goode (2)

Corry crossed on 26 seconds following an error from Kieran Roche while Seru Rabeni added another soon after.

Five penalties from Exiles fly-half Barry Everitt kept Irish in the hunt only for Brett Deacon and Andy Goode to score either side of the break.

Irish never gave up but Austin Healey's 68th-minute try sealed victory.

The home side were stunned as Corry crossed early on and when Rabeni crossed from close range on eight minutes, it looked as if Leicester would cruise to victory.

However Martin Johnson was sin-binned and Everitt landed five penalties to give Irish a brief 15-12 lead.

Leicester though responded with a moment of magic from full-back Geordan Murphy who created a try for flanker Deacon who was in support.

Goode kicked a 51st-minute penalty before converting his own try soon after to give Leicester a 29-15 lead.

I was pleased with the variation in our game Leicester coach John Wells

Scott Staniforth gave Irish a glimmer of hope with a try on 63 minutes but Healey's try and a late penalty from Goode ended the contest.

Exiles coach Gary Gold says he has seen enough to believe Leicester will win the Premiership title this season.

"They are a great team. They are my tip to win it," he said.

"We have lived with Leicester's physicality before but we need to have that physicality for 80 minutes, not 50 minutes, which is just not good enough.

"Certain players left our collective physical presence but the character of the team is very encouraging."

Leicester coach John Wells expressed his delight with his side's second victory in the first three games of the season.

"I am pleased and so are the players and so they should be," he said.

"At one point, Irish were 15-12 ahead and it was getting a little bit frustrating but we came through that and got some tremendous scores.

"I was pleased with the variation in our game and I thought Brett Deacon was tremendous in the first 30 or 35 minutes of the game."

London Irish: Armitage; Sackey, Appleford, Catt, Staniforth; Everitt, Edwards; Hatley, Flavin, Hardwick; Kennedy, Casey, Strudwick, Dawson, Roche.
Replacements: Durant, Paice, Danaher, Murphy, Mordt, Hodgson, Mapletoft.

Leicester: Murphy, Healey, Lloyd, Gibson, Rabeni; Goode, Ellis; Rowntree, Chuter, White, M Johnson (c), L Deacon, B Deacon, Back, Corry.
Replacements: Buckland, Morris, Kay, Abraham, H Tuilagi, Bemand, A Tuilagi