**Cardiff Blues and Edinburgh meet in a crunch Round 16 encounter on Monday night with both teams still fighting for Heineken Champions Cup qualification.** The Blues sit three points behind Scarlets, who welcome Connacht to Parc y Scarlets at the same time, while Edinburgh are 10 adrift but do have two games in hand. Victory for Scarlets would end Cardiff's hopes irrespective of whether they beat Edinburgh, who must win and seek a favour from Connacht to stay in the hunt to snatch third place. Both teams head into the game on the back of away wins last weekend, with Cardiff prevailing 29-14 at Benetton and Edinburgh snatching a dramatic 15-14 victory at Connacht.
