Edinburgh produced an excellent second-half display to overturn a deficit at the break and defeat Cardiff 25-17 in the Welsh capital on Sunday.
The opening period was tightly contested as Emiliano Boffelli’s penalty and Ben Muncaster’s try for the Scotts was followed by an impressive response by the hosts.
Thomas Young crossed the whitewash for Cardiff to leave them just 8-7 in arrears at the end of the first quarter.
Luke Crosbie’s converted try did take the visitors 15-7 ahead, but a penalty try and a Jarrod Evans three-pointer helped the Welsh region into a 17-15 advantage at the break.
They would be the last points Cardiff would score as Edinburgh controlled the final 40 minutes, with a Patrick Harrison effort and a second Boffelli penalty completing a fine win.
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Edinburgh took an early lead with a simple penalty from Boffelli and that advantage was soon extended when the full-back’s break put the defence on the back foot to create an overlap try for Muncaster.
Cardiff needed a quick response and looked to have got one when Rhys Carre finished off a succession of forward drives to crash over but TMO replays showed the prop making a double movement.
The Scots suffered an injury blow when hooker Adam McBurney left the field before quickly receiving another setback when Young powered over from close range.
Evans converted before Edinburgh scored their second try when a neat off-load from Chris Dean created the scoring opportunity for Crosbie.
Evans succeeded with a penalty before the home side took the lead for the first time.
Edinburgh had no answers to Cardiff’s driving line-outs and from one the Scots were marched backwards at a rate of knots before the maul was collapsed. Visitors’ fly-half, Charlie Savala, was yellow carded and a penalty try awarded to Cardiff for them to lead 17-15 at the interval.
Eight minutes after the restart, Savala returned from the sin-bin without any damage done to the scoreboard and in time to see Boffelli put his side back in front with his second penalty.
Edinburgh then scored their third try, again from a forward, with replacement, Harrison, finishing off a driving line-out.
Boffelli’s conversion made it a two-score game going into the final quarter and Cardiff never looked like clawing back the deficit.
Bulls too good for Sharks in South African derby
The Bulls climbed to third place in the United Rugby Championship after holding off a Sharks fightback to record a pulsating 40-27 bonus-point win in Pretoria.
Tries from Marcell Coetzee, Embrose Papier, Stravino Jacobs and Jan-Hendrik Wessels, plus 20 points from the boot of fly-half Chris Smith, earned the Bulls bragging rights over their South African rivals.
The Sharks overturned a 13-point deficit to briefly lead the derby but scores from Marnus Potgieter, Aphelele Fassi and Phepsi Buthelezi ultimately proved insufficient for victory at Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
A scrappy opening period burst into life just before the interval when David Kriel broke clear to give Coetzee a simple, diving finish under the posts, before Potgieter danced through the home defence at the other end minutes later.
The Sharks, who trailed 16-10 at the break, capitalised on the shift in momentum to briefly lead early in the second period after Fassi crossed following quick ball from right to left and fly-half Boeta Chamberlain, who contributed 12 points across the afternoon, added the extras.
But it proved short-lived as superb quick-fire scores from Papier and fellow replacement Jacobs took the game away from the Durban side, before Wessels added extra gloss, prior to Buthelezi’s late consolation.
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