Ibitoye makes the magic we like says Gustard

TWO-TRY winger Gabriel Ibitoye was described as “a special talent” by Harlequins director of rugby Paul Gustard.

“He's been working hard on his defensive positioning, on his oneon- one tackles and his aeriel game and going forward he's special,” said Gustard. “What we ask of our back three is to be special and make magic and we give them the licence to pop up and be a bit random. “That fits the DNA of the club and we did that pretty well today.”

Gustard added: “We have to look at a lot of the positives today. Our defence was outstanding against a team who regularly top the try-scoring over a domestic season.

“Our setpiece functioned really went well against an Exter team who pride themselves on their setpiece. We showed the competitive attitude and desire and if we do that we'll win more games than we'll lose.”

Scotland full-back Stuart Hogg, who watched the match, could be in line for an early Exeter debut at Bath on Friday night. “We've had a couple of training days with him and assessed him,” said Exeter head coach Ali Hepher.

“He looks very keen so we'll have to assess things in the week and put our best options out there against Bath.”