Exeter 29-6 Wasps: Ignacio Mieres swats Wasps aside with dream debut

Argentina fly-half Ignacio Mieres kicked 19 points on his first appearance for Exeter to help secure a well-deserved victory over Wasps in the their first match in the LV= Cup

He kicked five penalties and converted tries from centre Sireli Naqelevuki and left wing Matt Jess, while Wasps' points came through a penalty in each half from their young outside centre Elliot Daly.

The match was played in autumn sunshine and the Chiefs applied the early pressure, pinning the visitors into their own half. Mieres put the home side into the lead after seven minutes with a 40-metre penalty on his senior Chiefs debut.

Wasps fly-half Mark Van Gisbergen missed the opportunity to level the scores three minutes later when his 22-metre kick from the left sailed past the right upright.

But when the visitors had a second attempt a couple of minutes later, up stepped 18-year-old schoolboy Daly to take the kick from 40 metres and he neatly slotted it between the uprights on his senior debut.

It was the Chiefs who scored the first try of the game starting from a lineout 30 metres out.

They drove on and then when the ball was released centre Sereli Naqelevuki, who was due to join up with the Fiji squad after the game, who brushed aside a couple of tackles to touchdown with Mieres adding the extras.

The Chiefs created a try from deep in their own half in the second period, Matavesi kicking into the Wasps 22 and wing Jess chasing the ball down and beating the last defender to it before going over the line.

Mieres added the conversion and a penalty from out wide but Daly landed a second penalty, also from out wide, only for Mieres to kick a third penalty, leaving Wasps requiring to score three times in the final quarter to steal the game.

Mieres landed his fourth penalty and then, after missing for the second time in the game, he sublimely dropped his fifth on the stroke of full-time.