EXETER’S director of rugby Rob Baxter admitted his side were second best. He said: “In the Premiership you get the result you deserve and today we deserved nothing.
“It’s rare for us to score only five points so great credit to Worcester, who were more physical than us and won the breakdown.
“I don’t know how we got so close as they had far more composure than us.”
Exeter gave their leading players two weeks off during the Anglo-Welsh competition and Baxter said: “Maybe in hindsight it was a mistake to rest players but last year we did exactly...