signing an improved contract<\/a> at the club, the 21-year-old continued his fine start to the season with two tries and two assists as Edinburgh made it four league wins from four.<\/p>\nIn wet and windy conditions in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh edged a tight first half thanks to Matt Currie’s try, which came after a neat combination with Patterson down the left flank.<\/p>\n
Edinburgh’s line-out was totally dominant, with lock Glen Young and flanker Liam McConnell particularly impressive, but the hosts’ forwards were outshone by their effervescent nine.<\/p>\n
Mosese Tuipulotu – having been denied a similar score minutes earlier – powered over for Edinburgh’s second try on 47 minutes after gathering a Patterson offload.<\/p>\n
And provider turned scorer soon after as Patterson raced under the posts following a slick backs move.<\/p>\n
Batho Hlekani crossed for Lions’ only try after a spell of pressure on the Edinburgh line, but they were unable to build on that score.<\/p>\n
Patterson’s second try was a superb piece of opportunism and effectively killed the contest, taking a quick tap-and-go penalty and pinning his ears back to score in the corner with no-one in red able to get near him.<\/p>\n
In the closing stages, winger Geordie Gwynn went over in the corner to add further gloss to the scoreline and cap an Edinburgh impressive display.<\/p>\n
Sean Everitt’s team stay top of the URC table on 19 points, while Lions have won two of their four league matches.<\/p>\n
The only negative for Edinburgh was a curtailed return for star winger Duhan van der Merwe, who was forced off less than 20 minutes into his first start after injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship Edinburgh 31 (5) Tries: M. Currie, M. Tuipulotu, He. Patterson 2, Gwynn Cons: Grayson 2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}