Leicester Tigers head coach Geoff Parling told BBC Radio Leicester:
“We have not started well in games repeatedly this season, and after 10 minutes it was a 14-0 lead [for Gloucester]. It felt like we hadn’t thrown a punch, so I felt very calm there.
“And then there were some really, really good bits in the rest of the game.
“We actually feel a bit deflated because of the end of the game, giving them those two bonus points, but again that is a sign of the want and desire in the team. We got five points in a big performance against a team that has been going well.”
Gloucester head coach George Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
“It was a tough game. It was a very physical game, a lot of big collisions out there today.
“We are a little bit frustrated, I don’t feel like we fired enough shots. Early on we got two opportunities and took them both and set ourselves up nicely. Then we weren’t quite accurate enough, we probably lost too many balls in the air, dropped a few balls and you don’t get many opportunities when you come to places like this and we let a few go in the first half.
“We didn’t quite get a hold of it, but at the end I thought the bench came on and had a real impact and to come away with two points is something. But right now, I’d have liked the game to be 20 minutes longer.”
Leicester Tigers: Steward; Hamer-Webb, Wand, Bailey, Hassell-Collins; Searle; Van Poortvliet (c); Van der Flier, Blamire, Heyes; Carnduff, Henderson, Wainwright, Reffell, Cracknell.
Replacements: Moli, Vunipola, Hurd, Thompson, Moro, Whiteley, Woodward, Radwan.
Sin-bin: Searle (2).
Gloucester: Redshaw; Thorley, Joseph, Atkinson, Loader; Atkinson, Englefield; Bleuler, Lake (c), Fasogbon; Kleyn, Thomas, Ludlow, Morgan, Trenholm.
Replacements: Innard, Bellamy, Knight, Clement, Gwynne, Robson, Llewellyn, Barton.
Sin-bin: Thomas (50)
Referee: Karl Dickson.