Bristol v Exeter Chiefs predictions and Gallagher Premiership tips: Bears to exploit Chiefs' away issues

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Bristol v Exeter Chiefs predictions

Exeter's home form is masking their issues on the road and improving Bristol could take advantage of the Devonian's travel woes at Ashton Gate.

The Chiefs extended their unbeaten run on home soil to 23 matches with a 29-10 win over Leicester last weekend, but they are a difficult side to trust away from Sandy Park.

Although Exeter won at Toulon in the Champions Cup recently, the Chiefs' sole away victory in this season's Premiership came at lowly Newcastle and that is their only league success on the road since October 2022. 

Bristol were the latest team to take advantage of the Falcons' wretched form, winning 21-13 at Kingston Park a week ago.

That was their third victory in four outings and the Bears appear to have found some consistency after a couple of stop-start seasons that have called the future of coach Pat Lam into question.

A bumper crowd of 24,000 are set to be in attendance for the visit of Exeter so there should be a raucous atmosphere inside Ashton Gate.

And after losing November's reverse fixture 29-20 at Sandy Park, Lam's hosts, spurred on by a vociferous support, could gain a measure revenge by a similar margin.

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