GUTTED Glasgow scrum-half Ali Price has insisted the Warriors can still qualify for the last eight of the Champions Cup despite their 14-12 defeat by Munster on Saturday. The Scotland international knows his team will be underdogs when they visit Leicester on Saturday for their final Pool One match, but thinks it will be a more open kind of game that suits their style better.

“We'll look at Leicester quite a bit at the beginning of the week and find ways of getting a result,” Price said after Munster booked their place in the last eight with their third win of the season over Glasgow. “We'll go to Welford Road confident.

“We can still get out of the group and make it to the quarter-finals. I think if we can just execute a bit better when we have the ball in the opposition 22 against Leicester then I'm sure we can get a good result.”

Leicester’s loss to Racing 92 later on Saturday means that Glasgow will definitely finish second in the pool. With the three best runners-up from the five groups joining the winners in the quarter-finals, the Warriors still have a chance of getting into the last eight - especially if they take the full five points against the English club.

In a tense, tight match on Saturday night, neither side ever looked like coming close to getting five points for four tries or more. In the end there was only one touchdown in the game - for Munster substitute Francis Saili late on after Warriors full-back Stuart Hogg had been sinbinned for a high tackle. Tyler Bleyendaal, who had earlier been on target with three penalties, failed to convert Saili’s score, but it was still enough to put Munster in front for the first time in the match.

The Warriors, who had led 12-9 with three penalties from Finn Russell and another from Hogg, had time to attack after going behind. Deep inside the Munster half, they had a couple of chances to go for the drop-goal through Russell, but instead decided to keep pressing forward. With the benefit of hindsight, Price accepted that was probably the wrong decision.

“Me and Finn talked about it after and looked at each other,” he added. “It’s just one of those things.

“Looking back now, should we have had a crack? Maybe. But when you're in the game and in the moment we just carried on playing.

“We eventually coughed up the ball. Could we have taken a shot? Yes I guess we could have.

“We wanted to have a bit of ball in their 22 and get through the phases. We were confident we could break them down. I saw him back in the pocket. If the call was there I would have given it to him, but in hindsight it's easy.

“If we’re in tight games we’ve got a drop-goal routine or shape we form into. The boys are very aware of that. Maybe we should have gone into it.

“That's probably on me and Finn as half-backs to organise that. But when we're in their 22 I feel like we can break down any defence and ultimately get a try.”

Meanwhile, Glasgow are shortly expected to announce the signing of Adam Hastings from Bath for next season. The stand-off is the son of former Scotland captain Gavin Hastings.