The English club top Pool 2, having taken 19 out of a possible 20 points, and have two games to claim the point that will put them in the last eight – a Round 5 tie at Glasgow Warriors next Saturday and a home game against La Rochelle on January 18.

However, Hepher insists the Chiefs still have much to do and will be looking to improve on their 45-28 win at London Irish at the weekend, which kept them at the top of the Gallagher Premiership.

“If you look around, lots of sides have been collecting points,” Hepher told the Exeter website. “What we have to do is pick up as many as we can.

“Even if you drop one game, you are not exactly safe. That’s why it’s important we are on it again next week. The challenge for us is not only to top our pool, but also fight to get that home quarter-final.”

They will be up against a Warriors team fresh from a 38-19 Guinness PRO14 victory at Benetton Rugby last weekend, but which Glasgow player/coach Petrus du Plessis said contained a few too many tries for comfort over the Warriors’ line.

“We’ll take a look and learn from them going into Exeter next weekend,” Du Plessis told the Glasgow website.

“We will take lots of positives from this, but Exeter are a well-drilled side and we’ll need to step up again this weekend if we are to walk away with the win.”

Exeter Chiefs need just one more point to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Heineken Champions Cup for only the second time in their history, but head coach Ali Hepher is taking nothing for granted.