Toulouse centre Florian Fritz races away to score the game's opening try at Firhill © Getty Images

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Matches: Toulouse 36 - 10 Glasgow

Tournaments/Tours: Heineken Cup

Teams: Glasgow | Toulouse

Toulouse will look to extend their unbeaten start to this season's Heineken Cup when they welcome Glasgow to Stade Ernest Wallon on Tuesday.

The Top 14 giants and defending European champions cruised to a 28-16 victory over their Magners League rivals in the previous but were forced to wait for a second shot at the Warriors by the arctic weather gripping Europe.

The Scottish side's kit was stranded in London, forcing the Saturday kick-off to be delayed until Tuesday, much to the irritation of their hosts.

Defeat last time out left Glasgow staring at another pool stage exit but two years ago they defied the odds having lost at Firhill and went to Toulouse and claimed a famous victory and their second half display last weekend will offer further hope. The chances of a repeat upset remain slim, but this is the Heineken Cup.

Toulouse - Player to Watch: Outside centre Florian Fritz eanred selection in our Team of the Week in Round 3 with a try and an assist and will be worth following once again.

Toulouse - Team News: A start for Clement Poitrenaud at fullback sees Maxime Medard move on to the wing and Vincent Clerc drop to the bench. Guy Noves has made five changes to his pack as a whole new front row of Daan Human, Virgile Lacombe and Yohan Montes start, while Jean Boulihou and Louis Picamoles come in for Yannick Nyanga and Scott Sowerby in the backrow.

Glasgow - Player to Watch: The experienced Colin Gregor is preferred at No.9 and will need to weather spikey Toulouse counterpart Byron Kelleher while providing young fly-half Ruaridh Jackson with quality ball.

Glasgow - Team News: Glasgow have made three changes to their starting XV, two of which come in the backs where the scrum-halves and wings swap places with their respective replacements. Hefin O'Hare is selected in front of Federico Aramburu, while Gregor is preferred to Henry Pyrgos in a bid to bolster the experience in the starting line-up. Dougie Hall misses out and Fergus Thomson starts at hooker.

Key Battle: John Barclay is highly rated and his battle with the world class Thierry Dusatoir will provide an interesting sub-plot. The Glasgow openside needs to slow the opposition ball down if his side are to have any hope of stopping the juggernaut.

Trivia: Glasgow recorded the most famous victory in their history when they defeated Toulouse 33-26 at the Stade Ernest Wallon in January 2009

Stats: Toulouse have lost twice in Europe since they slipped up at home to Glasgow in January last year. Both times to the Cardiff Blues.

Quote Unquote:

"We must not get carried away and target a bonus point at all costs because it can be dangerous. We were warned last weekend and we know what to expect this time." - Toulouse wing Vincent clerc

"We can't take much confidence from the weekend because we didn't play that well. Our set piece wasn't good but we never gave up and that's hugely encouraging. We can't give them that much ball or that much respect this weekend." - Glasgow boss Sean Lineen

Prediction: Toulouse won pulling up last week and at home they will be even stronger. Their six changes won't weaken them given their supreme strength in depth and it's hard to see Glasgow troubling the champions.