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Last Updated: Saturday, 22 September 2007, 18:03 GMT 19:03 UK

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Harlequins 39-15 Leeds

Harlequins: (13) 39
Tries: Penalty, Guest, Turner-Hall, Malone, Keogh
Con: Malone 4
Pens: Malone 2

Leeds: (3) 15
Tries: Oakley, Ma'asi
Con: Welding
Pens: Hinton

Chris Malone helped Harlequins to continue their winning start to the new season with a comfortable win over Leeds at The Stoop.

Malone scored 18 points as Quins dominated the game from the first half.

They opened the scoring with a penalty try, before more scores from Tom Guest, Jordan Turner-Hall and Simon Keogh.

The visitors produced a better performance in the second half, Rhys Oakley and Vili Ma'asi adding scores, to reduce the deficit.

Harlequins director of rugby Dean Richards:

"Having the smallest squad in the Premiership obviously impacts on us more than anyone.

"But we are comfortable with our squad and the players we have brought in. I wouldn't change anyone."

"If we continue with the performances we are showing, we might get somewhere this year, but we are going to give a lot of people a run for their money."

Leeds coach Stuart Lancaster on the loss of back-row forward Jon Dunbar to injury in the opening minutes:

"It was a blow to us but we have got to move on from this, and learn from our mistakes.

"We struggled in the set-pieces in the first half, but I thought we did better in the second.

"There are areas we have got to look at before next week."

Harlequins: Brown, Williams, Luscombe, Turner-Hall, Amesbury, Malone, Keogh, Jones, Croall, Ross, Kohn, Evans, Robshaw, Volley, Guest.
Replacements: Laurent, Nebbitt, Spanghero, Skinner, Fulton, Masson, Stegmann.

Leeds: Hinton, Holtby, Hepworth, Welding, Biggs, Brooks, Bedford, Cusack, Rawlinson, Hopcroft, Hooper, Myall, Dunbar, M. Lock, Oakley.
Replacements: Noon, Ma'asi, Lund, Sticher, Aspinall, Goodridge, Blackett.

Referee: Roy Maybank (Kent)

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