Exeter Chiefs ran in seven tries as they beat Pool 1 rivals Gloucester to guide their place within the Premiership Rugby Cup semi-finals.
They now end high of Pool 1, joined within the final 4 by Pool 2 winners Sale and Pool 3 leaders Northampton.
Saints can nonetheless be caught by London Irish, however have already got sufficient factors to qualify as the most effective of the second-placed sides.
Exeter booked their place in a sport of 12 tries with Gloucester at Sandy Park.
The hosts had their bonus level earlier than the break with 4 tries, three from their wingers, two for Facundo Cordero, one for new boy Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and the opposite from Rus Tuima.
Flanker Tuima bought a second after the break, when hooker Dan Frost additionally crossed twice.
Gloucester, who had overwhelmed Northampton within the Premiership 24 hours earlier, made 21 modifications to their squad. Solely England’s Billy Twelvetrees, who had been an unused alternative on the bench on Saturday, performed, as a late substitute at centre for Morgan Adderly-Jones.
Their 5 tries got here from scrum-half Ben Meehan and hooker Seb Blake, then three extra within the second half from wingers Jake Morris and Alex Morgan, and centre Jack Reeves.
Exeter have been boosted earlier on Sunday following the announcement that they’d been awarded a 28-0 victory by Premiership Rugby for his or her cancelled assembly with suspended, relegated Worcester Warriors.
The Cherry and Whites can nonetheless guide the ultimate place within the final 4 however, if final season’s overwhelmed finalists London Irish get two factors from their rearranged sport in opposition to Sale then Gloucester would miss out to the Exiles.
This season’s competitors has been badly disrupted by the lack of each Worcester and fellow disaster membership Wasps, who have been additionally suspended and relegated after going into administration.
