Match Report

  • Cardiff Blues 18 Edinburgh 17

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    Cardiff Blues 18 Edinburgh 17 Saturday 9 October 5.45pm kick off Edinburgh took and early lead in the match when Paterson slotted a penalty, Parks soon had a chance to equalise, but uncharacteristically missed the next three kicks at goal. The Scottish visitors soon attacked down the right through Paterson and Visser but Halfpenny and […]

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Match Stats

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Match stats

Summary

Stat. Home team logo Cardiff Rugby Away team logo Edinburgh Rugby
Tries Chris Czekaj (34)
Casey Laulala (69)
Allan Jacobsen (23)
Ben Cairns (73)
Conversions Dan Parks (34) Chris Paterson (23), (73)
Penalties Dan Parks (27), (38) Chris Paterson (4)

Match Stats

Stat. Home team logo Cardiff Rugby Away team logo Edinburgh Rugby
Posession First Half 0% 0%
Posession Second Half 0% 0%
Territory First Half 0% 0%
Territory Second Half 0% 0%
Tries 2 2
Conversions 1 2
Yellow Cards 0 1

Player Stats

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Match Line-up

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Line-up
  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Away Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby
1 Gethin Jenkins Allan Jacobsen
2 T.Rhys Thomas Ross Ford
3 Taufa'ao Filise Geoff Cross
4 Bradley Davies Scott Macleod
5 Paul Tito Fraser McKenzie
6 Ma'ama Molitika Alan MacDonald
7 Martyn Williams Ross Rennie
8 Xavier Rush Roddy Grant
9 Richie Rees Mike Blair
10 Dan Parks David Blair
11 Chris Czekaj Tim Visser
12 Tom Shanklin Alex Grove
13 Casey Laulala Ben Cairns
14 Leigh Halfpenny Jim Thompson
15 Ben Blair Chris Paterson

Replacements

  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Home Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby
16 Rhys Williams Andy Kelly
17 John Yapp Kyle Traynor
18 Scott Andrews Dave Young
19 Deiniol Jones Craig Hamilton
20 Sam Warburton Netani Talei
21 Lloyd Williams Greig Laidlaw
22 Ceri Sweeney James King
23 Dafydd Hewitt Mark Robertson

Match Preview

  • Blues team to face Edinburgh announced

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    The Blues kick off their campaign with a home match against the team from the Scottish capital on Saturday, 5.45pm kick off. Having recorded a bonus point win of 34 points to 23 over Edinburgh in the opening round of the Magners League, the Blues will hope for more of the same this Saturday. Speaking […]

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Team Stats

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Team stats

Form Guide

Cardiff Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Edinburgh Rugby Home 18-17 Win
Connacht Rugby Home 22-6 Win
Benetton Rugby Away 7-19 Win
Dragons RFC Home 43-21 Win
Edinburgh Rugby Played Score Win/Loss
Cardiff Rugby Away 18-17 Loss
Aironi Rugby Away 9-10 Win
Leinster Rugby Home 32-24 Win
Ulster Rugby Away 29-21 Loss

Past Meetings

Sat 4th Sep 2010
KO 18:30 BST

Cardiff City Stadium

Europe/London

Celtic League

Cardiff Rugby

34

V

23

Edinburgh Rugby

Sat 9th Jan 2010
KO 18:30 GMT

Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Europe/London

Celtic League

Edinburgh Rugby

21

V

12

Cardiff Rugby

Fri 4th Sep 2009
KO 19:05 BST

Cardiff City Stadium

Europe/London

Celtic League

Cardiff Rugby

21

V

22

Edinburgh Rugby

Head-to-head

  Home Team Logo Cardiff Rugby Home Team Logo Edinburgh Rugby
Played 15 15
Wins 7 8
Wins at home 3 3
Wins away 4 5
Draws 0 0

From data since 2003