Match Report

  • Edinburgh 16 Cardiff Blues 17

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    Edinburgh 16 Cardiff Blues 17 Friday 15 February 7.30pm kick off The Blues traveled to the Scottish capital aiming to bounce back from last weekend’s defeat to Heineken Cup champions, Leinster. Edinburgh had two early penalty attempts at the posts that Gregor Hunter hooked wide. However, Patchell made no mistake with his chances minutes later […]

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Match Stats

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Match stats

Summary

Stat. Home team logo Edinburgh Rugby Away team logo Cardiff Rugby
Tries WP Nel (50) Michael Paterson (38)
Conversions Gregor Hunter (51)
Penalties Gregor Hunter (26), (35)
Harry Leonard (58)
Rhys Patchell (5), (13), (28), (66)

Match Stats

Stat. Home team logo Edinburgh Rugby Away team logo Cardiff Rugby
Posession First Half 0% 0%
Posession Second Half 0% 0%
Territory First Half 0% 0%
Territory Second Half 0% 0%
Tries 1 1
Conversions 1 0

Player Stats

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Match Line-up

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Line-up
  Home Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby Away Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
1 John Yapp Taufa'ao Filise
2 Steven Lawrie Marc Breeze
3 Geoff Cross Scott Andrews
4 Grant Gilchrist Michael Paterson
5 Izak van der Westhuizen James Down
6 David Denton Josh Navidi
7 Stuart McInally Thomas Young
8 Netani Talei Robin Copeland
9 Richie Rees Lewis Jones
10 Gregor Hunter Rhys Patchell
11 Lee Jones Harry Robinson
12 Ben Atiga Gavin Evans
13 Nick de Luca Richard Smith
14 Dougie Fife Owen Williams
15 Greig Tonks Jason Tovey

Replacements

  Home Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
16 Andy Titterrell Kristian Dacey
17 Allan Jacobsen Sam Hobbs
18 WP Nel Benoit Bourrust
19 Sean Cox Lou Reed
20 Hamish Watson Andries Pretorius
21 Chris Leck Alex Walker
22 Harry Leonard Gareth Davies
23 Tom Brown Chris Czekaj

Match Preview

  • Cardiff Blues names side for Edinburgh encounter

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    There is one change in the backs with Richard Smith coming in at centre for Dafydd Hewitt, who suffered a broken checkbone in last Friday’s match against Leinster. The backrow sees Robin Copeland start at Number 8 and joined by Thomas Young at openside and Josh Navidi, who returns from the Wales squad, at blindside. […]

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Team Stats

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Team stats

The season so far

P: Played . W: Won D: Drawn L: Lost F: For A: Against Diff: Difference BP: Bonus Points Pts: Points (Total)

No.   Team Name P W D L F A Diff BP Pts
9 Team Logo Cardiff Rugby 22 8 0 14 348 487 -139 6 38
10 Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby 22 7 0 15 399 504 -105 8 36

Form Guide

Edinburgh Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Munster Rugby Away 30-3 Loss
Saracens Away 40-7 Loss
Munster Rugby Home 17-26 Loss
Leinster Rugby Home 16-31 Loss
Cardiff Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Leinster Rugby Home 11-26 Loss
London Irish Home 10-6 Win
Saracens Away 19-11 Loss
Sale Sharks Home 26-14 Win

Past Meetings

Fri 7th Sep 2012
KO 19:05 BST

Cardiff Arms Park

Europe/London

PRO12

Cardiff Rugby

19

V

21

Edinburgh Rugby

Sun 22nd Apr 2012
KO 14:05 BST

Cardiff City Stadium

Europe/London

PRO12

Cardiff Rugby

38

V

13

Edinburgh Rugby

Fri 16th Dec 2011
KO 20:00 GMT

Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Europe/London

European Cup

Edinburgh Rugby

19

V

12

Cardiff Rugby

Head-to-head

  Home Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby
Played 23 23
Wins 10 13
Wins at home 4 6
Wins away 6 7
Draws 0 0

From data since 2003