Pro14: Scarlets 3-6 Edinburgh

For the second time in two days a Scottish team celebrated victory at Parc y Scarlets, as Edinburgh followed in the footsteps of the national side.

Saturday had seen Scotland claim their first win on Welsh soil in 18 years in the 2020 Six Nations finale over Wales.

Edinburgh had not won in the Pro14 this season but edged Scarlets, who had lock Josh Helps sent off on the hour mark.

Jaco van der Walt's two penalties were just enough for victory, edging Angus O'Brien's solitary kick for Scarlets.

Wales wing Johnny McNicholl made an early return from injury to line up at full-back in a Scarlets side showing five changes from the team that beat Benetton 10-3.

They had lock Morgan Jones available, making his first start in the competition, after having his red card in the Benetton game rescinded.

Edinburgh had Scotland internationals Henry Pyrgos, Mark Bennett, Magnus Bradbury and Nick Haining in their starting XV, as Richard Cockerill's team went looking for a first Pro14 win of the season.

A wind and rain-lashed Parc y Scarlets made handling difficult but Edinburgh just about had the elements on their side in the first half, or less against them anyway.

What did stymie the visitors was three early injuries that saw centre Chris Dean, prop Murray McCallum and lock Andrew Davidson all departing within the first quarter, with James Johnstone, WP Nel and new signing Andries Ferreira off the bench.

Scrum pressure

Josh Helps of Scarlets is shown a red card by referee Chris Busby

Despite losing two of their pack Edinburgh bossed the early scrums, winning three penalties - although none within range of the posts - as the Scarlets eight back-pedalled.

A fourth home collapsed scrum was kickable but Edinburgh opted for an attacking line-out, only to be denied by a Scarlets defence that turned them over to clear the lines.

Even when Edinburgh crossed the line, the ball was spilt as a horde of bodies drove over.

But on the cusp of half-time the pressure finally told, despite Wales prop Rob Evans replacing Phil Price as a tactical change, as another scrum offence saw Van der Walt kick a penalty for a 3-0 lead.

In truth Scarlets could be thankful for the leniency shown by referee Chris Busby, who could easily have brandished his yellow card or perhaps opted for a penalty try.

The second half began with no more promise of a points-fest than the first, but fly-half O'Brien made no mistake with his first sight of goal to bring Scarlets level.

Scarlets coach Glenn Delaney again tried to shore up his creaking front row by summoning Werner Kruger from the bench.

But the South African prop was back on the sidelines in less than five minutes as another home scrum nose-dived to the turf and Kruger - who did appear to slip his binding - was sin-binned.

Van der Walt kicked the resulting penalty to restore Edinburgh's three-point advantage.

Scarlets' fortunes dipped further when second row Helps was red-carded on the hour-mark for a dangerous tackle on Edinburgh wing George Taylor.

It was the third successive game a Scarlets lock had received his marching orders, following Sam Lousi and Morgan Jones, although Jones' red was overturned.

Scarlets at least survived until Kruger's reintroduction to bring them back up to 14 men and they enjoyed their best spell of the game, but even with late pressure could not find another score to turn the result.

Scarlets coach Glenn Delaney told BBC Sport Wales:

"We had an opportunity down on the goal line to win it there but we weren't accurate enough and they got a penalty, which was probably the decisive factor.

"We knew it was probably going to come down to one or two moments and we weren't clinical enough to take it.

"I haven't seen it [the Josh Helps sending-off incident] but the referee has made the call on the field and all we can do is adjust. We shored it up but it was a big moment, although the penalty count against us heavily at scrum time was probably a more decisive factor."

Scarlets: Johnny McNicholl; Tyler Morgan, Steff Hughes (capt), Paul Asquith, Steff Evans; Angus O'Brien, Dane Blacker; Phil Price, Taylor Davies, Javan Sebastian, Josh Helps, Morgan Jones, Uzair Cassiem, Jac Morgan, Sione Kalamafoni.

Replacements: Dom Booth, Rob Evans, Werner Kruger, Jac Price, Ed Kennedy, Will Homer, Dan Jones, Tom Prydie.

Edinburgh: Jack Blain; George Taylor, Mark Bennett, Chris Dean, Jamie Farndale; Jaco van der Walt, Henry Pyrgos (capt); Pierre Schoeman, Mike Willemse, Murray McCallum, Lewis Carmichael, Andrew Davidson, Magnus Bradbury, Ally Miller, Nick Haining.

Replacements: David Cherry, Jamie Bhatti, WP Nel, Andries Ferreira, Connor Boyle, Charlie Shiel, Nathan Chamberlain, James Johnstone.

Referee: Chris Busby (IRFU)

Assistant Referees: Nigel Owens, Rhys Jones (both WRU)

TMO: Wayne Davies (WRU)