MOSELEY wing Ed Styles is hoping lightning will strike twice in less than a month when Moseley return to Old Deer Park to face London Welsh on Saturday.

The Championship strugglers go to the capital having not won since their last visit when they stunned the high-rolling Exiles with their best performance of the season.

Nineteen unanswered second-half points and four brilliant tries gave the visitors a 24-21 victory and sweet revenge for the 68-point drubbing inflicted by the same opponents only a few weeks previously.

But that was on December 11 and in the British & Irish Cup, a competition on which Styles and his team-mates have no designs. Indeed, it was almost as if they were liberated by the fact league points weren’t up for grabs.

They certainly will be tomorrow and with a nine point gap between themselves and safety Styles, who scored his one and only Moseley try that day, has called for a repeat performance and a repeat result.

“We went there last time wanting to play some rugby,” the 21-year-old recalled.

“We had got to a point in the season where everyone just wanted to go out there and play and we ended up playing well.

“We had made a few changes and the mindset was very different, we were a lot more ambitious than we had been because there was not the pressure of the league. We made lots of breaks, there were lots of players in support and all the off-loads went to hand.”

Which is what did not happen against Nottingham last weekend. Mose enjoyed lots of possession and territory in the first half against the Green and Whites but only once did they find a way across the line.

Styles had a clear-cut opportunity early on and although he could not get round a corner-flagging defender, he remains convinced Moseley have the ability to convert their chances against fourth-placed Welsh.

“Nottingham were a good side and defended well but we have to be a bit more clinical,” he added.

“We have got the players to do that, we showed it the last time we went to London Welsh, we just need to do it again.”

Styles is likely to retain his place on the wing and Mike Ellery is set to return at No.8.