Another penalty goes Edinburgh's way after Wes Goosen is halted by a slightly high tackle.

Ross Thompson kicks to the corner again...

It has to be said, Benetton have been absolutely awful here.

Jacob Umaga throws an incredibly loose pass, there's a knock-on and Edinburgh now have a scrum just outside the visitors' 22.

Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at Hive Stadium

Benetton have no answer to Edinburgh's power right now.

The big carriers are getting over the gain-line every time and the Italians look ragged in defence.

Ruthless stuff from Sean Everitt's side so far. The head coach will want his men to keep the foot on the gas.

Edinburgh continue to put Benetton under all sorts of pressure, and a big carry from Pierre Schoeman wins the hosts a penalty.

Ross Thompson nudges it into the corner as Edinburgh search for try number three.

Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at Hive Stadium

Duhan van der Merwe looks up for it tonight.

That was a sensational break, leaving four or five defenders eating his dust, and if he had gathered that return pass from Wes Goosen it would have been a contender for try of the season.

Electric stuff from the big man.

It's almost a glorious second try for Edinburgh and Duhan van der Merwe, but the big man knocks on with the try line beckoning.

He starts the move with a break down the left wing, before exchanging passes with Wes Goosen.

However, the final ball is just in front of Van der Merwe and he can't stretch far enough to cling on.

If I'm being critical, that should have really been finished off.

The chance comes and goes after an illegal Edinburgh clear-out at the breakdown.

Edinburgh win a penalty after Benetton's front row collapses, and kick their way into the opposition 22.

Big chance.

It's all been a wee bit scrappy since that electric start.

Edinburgh have a scrum just inside Benetton's half after the visitors knock-on.

Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at Hive Stadium

That's a lovely Edinburgh try.

More of the same please....

Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at Hive Stadium

It's been a difficult start to the season for Edinburgh and the hope is the autumn internationals have given the capital side a chance to reset.

The form of some of their big names in Scotland jerseys should offer some encouragement.

Darcy Graham looked back to his dazzling best. Duhan van der Merwe was his usual lethal self. Grant Gilchrist and Jamie Ritchie delivered towering performances against Australia and Pierre Schoeman looked back to his best.

Now the challenge is to bring that form back to their club, starting tonight.

Edinburgh fly-half Ross Thompson gets us under way.

The hosts immediately turn the ball over and are on the front foot.

Former Edinburgh and Scotland centre Nick De Luca has just come onto the pitch with his kids to deliver tonight's match ball.

Kick-off isn't far away...

Tom English
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer

The ridiculousness of Edinburgh's travails in the United Rugby Championship had a spotlight shone on it when Scotland took the Wallabies to the cleaners during the Autumn Nations Series.

Duhan van der Merwe and Darcy Graham were at the heart of Scotland's win, Grant Gilchrist was a towering presence in the lineout and Jamie Ritchie put in one of his best Test displays, an influential and angry thing, a game heavy with aggression, bite and breakdown menace.

And so we ask (again) about Edinburgh's feeble form in the URC. In the history of the competition has any team ever made so little of so much? Funded to the tune of more than £6m a year, they have financial muscle, a decent support crying out for something to get behind and a squad of players that should be in the URC playoffs at an absolute minimum.

They remain the great underachievers of URC rugby - an expensive conundrum, a team of internationals who can't get it together. Coaches come and go and the story hardly ever changes.

We keep waiting for the plot twist. The senior pros at Edinburgh need to take inspiration from the Warriors to the west and get mean, get uncompromising, get the kind of attitude that propelled Ritchie forward against Australia.

Living in the shadow of Glasgow can't be much fun. This weekend, with the URC back in full flow, they need to start emerging from it once and for all.

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Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt names several Scotland internationals who featured during the recent Autumn Nations Series in his side this evening.

The likes of Pierre Schoeman, Ewan Ashman and Jamie Ritchie all start in the forward pack, while Darcy Graham and Duhan van der Merwe line up as the capital side's wingers.

Freddy Douglas - who became Scotland's youngest male player since 1963 against Portugal - could make his first Edinburgh appearance off the bench, and Sam Skinner is also among the replacements after injury.

Edinburgh: Goosen, Graham, Currie, Tuipulotu, Van der Merwe, Thompson, Price; Schoeman, Ashman, Hill, Sykes, Gilchrist, Ritchie, Muncaster, Bradbury.

Replacements: Harrison, Venter, Rae, Skinner, Douglas, Vellacott, Healy, McCann.

Benetton: Smith, Mendy, Fekitoa, Zanon, Odogwu, Umaga, Uren; Tetaz, Manfredi, Avaca, Scrafton, Snyman, Izekor, Halafihi, Favretto.

Replacements: Creevy, Aminu, Pasquali, Kingi, Koroiyadi, Velez, Marin, Lynagh.