Christophe Dominici, the diminutive wing-three-quarter who helped bury the World Cup hopes of New Zealand, scored two tries for his club Stade Francais in their European Cup victory at Glasgow Caledonians last night.

The first away win in Pool One ensured that the French go through to the quarter-finals as pool winners, knocking their hosts as well as Leicester out in the process and leaving Leinster's chances of further progress hanging by a thread.

Any hopes the Scots had of the unlikely 52-point win which would maintain their chances of qualification evaporated almost immediately at Hughenden last night when the Stade full back Arthur Gomes retrieved a deep kick from Jon Stuart, elected to run and stormed over half-way through some weak tackling.

The ball was switched out wide, although Glasgow still appeared to have sufficient numbers to defend their line, but Dominici shrugged off the attentions of Ian McInroy and Tommy Hayes to score.

Diego Dominguez converted, but Hayes then missed successive penalty attempts for Glasgow before Glenn Metcalfe took Donny McFadyen's pass on the wing at full speed and cruised round the French defence to touch down under the posts. Hayes levelled but missed again with a penalty.

Pieter de Villiers then fed his fellow front-row forward Fabrice Landreau on his inside for the visitors' second try, and the Stade pack drove Dominici over a minute before the break, although Hayes struck back with his first successful penalty.

Dominguez, though, replied with a penalty 15 minutes after the interval, and De Villiers was shoved over in the corner for Stade's fourth try. After Dominguez had added another penalty Jason White's try was nothing more than late late consolation for Glasgow.

"Marc Lievremont was excellent," the Stade assistant coach Grant Ross said of Dominici's fellow French international. "He conceded a few penalties in the first half but he shut down their attack and turned over a lot of possession."

Ross hailed the third minute try which saw the French side obliterate their reputation as Parisian home birds tonight.

"We are developing a reputation as a team who cannot win outside Paris," said the New Zealander.

"For a club with our ambition and budget that is not good enough. We knew if we didn't score early we would be in trouble and fortunately Christophe got us off to a good start.

"Glasgow played well but the difference was in defence."

Caledonians coach Richie Dixon said his side had been taught a valuable lesson.

"At this level you can't miss your first-up tackling because it puts too much pressure on the back-up and it cost us all three tries in the first half," he said.