Fourth versus fifth within the desk and with a bunch of shut and entertaining conferences prior to now, this was a tricky one to name.
Warriors have been unbeaten at dwelling all season, whereas the Stormers had picked up steam with 4 straight victories to finish the common season.
Glasgow stole a line-out on 10 minutes and a few sensible dealing with within the back-line sliced the Stormers open, however the closing cross from Cancelliere was fumbled ahead by Horne with the try-line ready.
It was a golden likelihood and one the house crowd hoped wouldn’t come again to hang-out their aspect.
Because the wind and rain swirled round Scotstoun, Libbok was off-target along with his first penalty try earlier than Horne confirmed him the way it was performed to get Glasgow up and operating.
Libbok pulled one other penalty broad because the World Cup-winning fly-half struggled to seek out his vary and the sport as a complete, whereas ferociously bodily, was struggling to get into any form of move because the slippy ball made dealing with troublesome for either side.
Horne banged over one other penalty and, whereas the house aspect needed to face up to a interval of stress close to their very own line, they went in on the break 6-0 to the great.
Glasgow’s Huw Jones scorched by way of a niche early within the second half however ignored the 2 assist runners on his exterior and the transfer fizzled out.
Stormers had barely existed as an attacking pressure and their trigger was not helped when captain Salmaan Moerat was sin-binned for a head-on-head collision with Nathan McBeth.
The 14 males have been undeterred and a few slick back-line play led to Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu slipping Loader in to dive over within the nook. Libbok didn’t convert and Glasgow remained forward by one.
That Stormers attempt sparked the Warriors into life and so they hit again instantly.
Sione Tuipulotu powered by way of 4 or 5 defenders because of a thunderous run, with Cancelliere readily available to gather the offload and run in for the rating.
This gradual burner of a quarter-final was exploding into life within the closing 20.
After a free line-out throw on their very own 5 metre line, substitute scrum-half De Moist caught the Warriors fringe defence out with a show-and-go to dive over.
Extremely, Libbok noticed what ought to have been a simple conversion nearly bang in entrance of the posts come crashing off the upright and Glasgow led by three.
As soon as once more, the Glasgow defence was very good. An excellent break from Tom Jordan took Warriors deep into Stormers territory and, after a protracted passage of affected person part play battering on the line, substitute Venter compelled himself over.
Thompson pounced on a charged-down kick within the closing play to dot down and cap a robust show within the closing 20 to seal Glasgow’s passage into the semi-finals.
There, they are going to have an opportunity to avenge final season’s quarter-final defeat by Munster.
