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Meehan - it's up for grabs now

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Bath coach Steve Meehan believes back-to-back wins over Glasgow have given his side a great chance of reaching the knockout stages.

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Bath coach Steve Meehan believes back-to-back wins over Glasgow have given his side a great chance of reaching the knockout stages. The Premiership side won 25-19 win at Firhill to move to within two points of leaders Toulouse in Pool Five. Meehan said: "We had more control of the game this time round compared to last week's match at The Rec. "But Glasgow are a very, very good side and any team who fails to give them due respect will come unstuck. "We now have a long wait for the Newport meeting and it will be a key fixture for us. "It is up in the air who will qualify from this group, but with our injury situation improving all the time, I have to be confident about our prospects of moving forward." Glasgow boss Sean Lineen admitted his side failed to do themselves justice. "You can't give a team as strong as them that amount of ball and expect to beat them," he said. "We never established a platform and in the second half we were unable to create a meaningful try opportunity. "We were buzzing at half-time, but we didn't win enough possession after the restart to mount any real threat. "Our scrum was not as good as it should have been and at times the lineout did not function. "When we did get the ball, we couldn't keep it long enough to put Bath under pressure."