Bath director of rugby Johann van Graan told BBC Radio Bristol:
“It was two teams that really wanted to win. We started the game really well – the way we defended on our goalline and worked back it was really impressive.
“Straight after half-time we came out scored our fourth try. Unfortunately we invited some pressure on us but I thought we were really positive and some lovely play both sides of the ball.
“We amalgamated all parts of our game, breakdown, set piece, the contact, attack, defence, the kicking game, so I’m really happy with the performance. Certainly not perfect but a great way to finish this block.”
Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson said:
“I’m really impressed with aspects of our game as we had physicality in spades and showed much better intention to run the ball.
“We created opportunities but left points out there as our execution wasn’t good enough. We were 19-7 down at half-time, but it could have easily between 21-19.
“We fell to some sucker punches and there were big momentum swings but despite being 36-14 down, we wrestled something back from nothing to earn a bonus point.
“However we weren’t good enough to win as they were more dangerous than us in the wide channels and they won the aerial battles, but I truly believe we are not far off and will get where we to be in the end.”
Bath: De Glanville; Cokanasiga, Lawrence, Ojomoh, Arundell; Russell, Spencer (c); Obano, Frost, Griffin, Jeanes, Ewels, Hill, Reid, Bayliss.
Replacements: Dunn, Wheeler, Stuart, Opoku-Gyamfi, Richards, Van Der Linde, Hennessey, Coetzee.
Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, Marchant, Lozowski, O’Flaherty; Ford, Warr; Smith, Jibulu, Opoku-Fordjour, Van Rhyn (c), Bamber, Tshiunza, B. Curry, T. Curry.
Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, McIntyre, Francis, Burrow, Dugdale, Hanson, Ma’asi-White, Canakaivata.
Referee: Anthony Woodthorpe
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