Northampton Saints head coach Sam Vesty told BBC Radio Northampton:

"[It was] a really satisfying win, a real contest of attack and defence, where both defences were tested but stood up.

"We started doing a lot of things better with 10 minutes to go in the first half. We moved off the ball better, created opportunities and we got that try just before half-time which is always a good time to score.

"In a game where defences are strong, you have to be pretty ruthless and we were alive to the opportunities, which was good to see."

On Alex Mitchell's injury:

"He felt something in his hamstring, we can't know more than that. It may not be too bad but then nobody who pulls their hamstring thinks it's bad."

Gloucester head coach George Skivington told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:

"We came out of the blocks well, attacked the game, but we just weren't accurate enough especially at the back-end of the first-half.

"We had some real opportunities and could've come in 14 or even 21 nil up, but we gave away a couple of penalties, they scored too easily and suddenly it was 14 all.

"We didn't get the launches and the ball through the hands the way we wanted to. The boys stayed in the fight, kept trying, but a lot of our play was scrappy balls, picking balls off the floor and Saints took their opportunities really well.

"There will be some good learnings here."

Northampton: Pater; Sleightholme, Freeman, Dingwall (c), Hendy; Belleau, Mitchell; Iyogun, Langdon, Kundiona; Coles, Prowse, Kemeny, Pearson, Chick.

Replacements: Smith, Fischetti, Neculai, Van Der Mescht, Lockett, Pollock, Weimann, Hutchinson.

Gloucester: Barton; Joseph, Llewellyn, S Atkinson (c), W Knight; C Atkinson, Englefield; Rapava Ruskin, Blake, Fasogbon; Kleyn, Clark, Thomas, Gwynne, Clement.

Replacements: Lake, Bleuler, C Knight, Trenholm, Morgan, Ludlow, Robson, Redshaw.

Referee: Sara Cox.