Heineken Cup: Gloucester 10-16 Edinburgh

Ben Atiga is congratulated by team mates after scoring a try. Picture: Getty

Edinburgh joined the list of redemption clubs who turned the Heineken back-to-back fixtures on their head by following up home defeat with victory away.

Scorers: Gloucester: Try - Penalty Try. Con - Burns. Pen - Burns. Edinburgh: Try - Atiga. Con - Cuthbert. Pens - Cuthbert (3).

The boot of full-back Jack Cuthbert and a first Edinburgh try for centre Ben Atiga meant they took advantage of typically Scottish weather to bounce back and regain a little Scottish pride in the European competition with a first away win for two seasons, a fourth Scottish win in England out of 16 attempts.

Few saw this result coming after last weekend’s comfortable win for the English club in Murrayfield, least of all the Gloucester faithful who left with a sense of disbelief, as Edinburgh back rower Roddy Grant typified the effort by collecting the man of the match award.

Edinburgh went into the game with a weakened team, the decision to rest the likes of Greig Laidlaw, David Denton and Nick de Luca on top of the injuries, with only about half the starting line-up being eligible for Scotland as another issue that should concern the powers that be at Murrayfield.

They may only have had pride on the line after the hope of their opening victory at home to Munster, followed by defeats in Perpignan and at home to Gloucester, but at least Edinburgh were prepared to show a bit of fight.

The weather was miserable with steady rain at Kingsholm making handling tricky even when the rain clouds blew over for a while.

If it was a day to shove the ball up in the air then at least that is how Edinburgh opened the scoring, left wing Tom Brown belting the ball up into the grey skies and then blocked from trying to regather by home scrum half Tavis Knoyle in the sort of cynical way encouraged by every team from every kick.

Referee Roman Poite was rightly having none of it and, after Jack Cuthbert had put Edinburgh ahead with the 40 yard penalty, he penalised the visitors for the same offence a minute later. This time Freddie Burns put the kick wide.

A ruck offence gave Cuthbert another penalty chance and he bounced the 48 yard kick over via the cross bar to extend the lead.

For much of the half that was all the scoring as the ball spent much of the time in the air and both sides struggled to build or maintain any pressure in the opposition 22.