Gloucester head coach George Skivington instructed BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
“I anticipated us to be good in defence, I anticipated us to attempt to again up what we did final week however nilling a crew is excellent and that exhibits character greater than something.
“The work Joel Tomkins [defence coach] has carried out to get the boys in that mindset is nice.
“The snapshot for me of the sport is after we are successful on the finish and we chase again as exhausting as we did to cease Quins getting a attempt – that is actually the character we’re in search of.
“All spherical fairly comfortable, I believe there’s a whole lot of issues we are able to do higher. We felt like that at half-time, that was what we talked about, and that is testomony to the group – they’re working unbelievably exhausting, theyre not glad.”
Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore stated:
“The efficiency was completely unacceptable and you aren’t going to win a sport with a 21-5 penalty rely in opposition to you.
“We fed the referee, which meant we struggled for possession, and so they had been in a position to get straightforward discipline place and had been in a position to launch 20 line-outs within the pink zone to our 5.
“At half-time we felt we may nonetheless do one thing however conceding two tries within the first 4 minutes after the interval took the wind out of our sails.
“That put the consequence past doubt and we spun uncontrolled afterwards as we tried to chase the sport.”
Gloucester: Barton; Thorley, Joseph, S. Atkinson, Loader; C. Atkinson, Englefield; Rapava-Ruskin, Lake (capt), Fasogbon, Kleyn, Clark, Thomas, Morgan, Trenholm.
Replacements: Innard, Bleuler, C. Knight, Clement, Ludlow, Robson, W. Knight, Denny.
Harlequins: Furbank; Anderson, Beard, Bradley, Murley (capt); Slevin, Porter; Hobson, Walker, Delgado, Dun, Browne, Kenningham, Evans, Carr.
Sin-bin: Evans (17 minutes)
Replacements: Riley, Wenger, Kerrod, Petti, Cunningham-South, Friday, Lang, Inexperienced.
Referee: Sara Cox.