{"id":47609,"date":"2026-09-26T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-prem-harlequins-17-33-bath-carreras-magic-lights-up-opening-night-win-bath\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T05:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:12:55","slug":"the-prem-harlequins-17-33-bath-carreras-magic-lights-up-opening-night-win-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-prem-harlequins-17-33-bath-carreras-magic-lights-up-opening-night-win-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prem: Harlequins 17-33 Bath: Carreras magic lights up opening night win Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan speaking to BBC Radio Somerset: <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought we started really well. I think we managed the first half really well and to go into the changing room up, away from home, in your first league game, that&#8217;s something we were really happy about. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We stuck to our DNA, we were tough to beat and ultimately we&#8217;ve got to be happy with that performance. Loads of things to work on but we&#8217;ll take an away win in round one. We had loads of opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Importantly we didn&#8217;t give them a bonus because one point is the biggest and smallest margin as who knows what will happen at the back end with points difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">[On Carreras&#8217; try] <\/b>&#8220;That was pure magic. He&#8217;s been on fire and I&#8217;m so glad for him. That might be the try of the season in round one. The kick, the regather, the pace, I loved that moment and it was certainly the moment of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">[On Sam Underhill injury]<\/b> &#8220;It looks like a bicep injury and he might be out for some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy with the grit and the fight that they showed, particularly in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had some massive defensive sets on our goal line, which we withstood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m frustrated that we created a lot of line breaks but we panicked a little bit at the end of them and turned over far too much ball which released pressure off Bath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harlequins: <\/b>Green; Anderson, Beard, Bradley, Murley (c); Slevin, Porter; Hobson, Walker, Delgado, Dun, Browne, Kenningham, Evans, Cunningham-South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements: <\/i>Riley, Wenger, Johnson-Holmes, Treadwell, Petti, Friday, Bellamy, Isgro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sin-bin:<\/b> Riley (53)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bath: <\/b>Carreras; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Ojomoh, De Glanville; Russell, Carr-Smith; Obano, Frost, Stuart, Hill, Ewels (c), Bayliss, Underhill, Du Preez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements:<\/i> Tuipulotu, Kirk, Griffin, Richards, Pepper, Van der Linde, Redpath, Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Referee: <\/b>Karl Dickson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cv4g5y8y3582o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan speaking to BBC Radio Somerset: &#8220;I thought we started really well. I think we managed the first half really well and to go into the changing room up, away from home, in your first league game, that&#8217;s something we were really happy about. &#8220;We stuck to our DNA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47611,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47609\/revisions\/47611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}