George Skivington hailed Gloucester’s rare victory in France as a big step forward as his injury ravaged side recovered from last week’s home thumping by Leinster to make the last 16.
Gloucester were without a number of leading players including Louis Rees-Zammit, Chris Harris, Adam Hastings, Santi Carreras, Fraser Balmain, Ruan Ackermann and Ben Morgan, but recovered from a shaky start to dominate.

“I am really pleased,” said Gloucester’s director of rugby. “It is tough coming here but we showed the application to stay on task and remain composed through some tricky moments.

“They had on...