Webster pounces late as Edinburgh edge out Castres

Edinburgh 24 Castres22

Simon Webster capitalised on a mistake to score the decisive try as Edinburgh claimed a 24-22 victory, their first in Pool One after narrow losses to Northampton, Cardiff Blues and last week’s 21-16 reverse in Castres.

The match was postponed for 24 hours due to snow and ice and played in front of an empty 67,000-seat stadium, and Moffat praised the performances of both teams in difficult circumstances.

Moffat said: “I thought both teams and the referee did well to get a decent game of rugby and it deserved a crowd.

“For us it was good to win.

“You could say it was a lucky try at the end, their boy messed it up, but so what?

“Over four games we deserved that and we worked really hard for it.”

Edinburgh took a 14-10 half-time lead after Tim Visser scored a try and set up another for Lee Jones.

But Greig Laidlaw’s sin-binning midway through the second-half was followed by a Castres penalty try and another score for Sebastien Tillous-Borde, leaving Edinburgh trailing by five points with four minutes remaining.

But for the second week running Webster came off the bench to score a try and this time it was not in vain as David Blair kicked the conversion for the hosts to triumph in a group where Northampton have a six-point lead over Castres.