The third round of Amlin Challenge Cup matches got off to a sensational start at Sixways Stadium with the "Goode Show" - and Worcester Warriors head coach Richard Hill believes the return contest with Perpignan in Round 4 on Saturday, 15 December, could be a thriller to settle the likely Pool 2 winner and qualifier for the knock-out stages.
Andy Goode weighed in with all the Warriors' points in their 22-21 win that puts them three points clear at the top ahead of the Stade Aime Giral showdown.
Outside half Goode scored the Warriors' only try in a match played in atrocious wet conditions but Hill declared: "I saw plenty of opportunities for us to go wide and on a dry pitch at Perpignan I will be optimistic we can do some damage.
"That result has kept the group alive - which is great - and I think that at the start of the season we may well have lost that sort of game but the squad now has much more confidence in itself.
"Even when things did not look good with five minutes to go we were still coming up with the confidence to try and win the game.
"It was not a great spectacle but it was the attitude I was please with. We refused to give in even when it looked grim towards the end.
"The hardest thing is to get that hard-nosed steely attitude - that you believe 100% you will win - even when you are playing teams like Perpignan who are really a Heineken Cup team."
