Cammy Murray and Andy Hall grapple for possession

An 80-yard hack and chase by Murray after Glasgow had threatened the Edinburgh line led to a scrum but surges by Todd Blackadder and Kevin Utterson were held up short as Glasgow defended desperately until a penalty lifted the pressure.

Hodge then hoofed a 60-yard touch-finder from which the ball worked to Utterson to go over for Edinburgh's second try which was again converted by Hodge.

Edinburgh pressure prevented Glasgow from developing any pattern to their game, forcing errors when the home side reached the danger zone.

Two minutes before the break, Hayes finally got Glasgow on the board with a penalty but in injury-time Hodge restored the margin with a drop goal to take Edinburgh in at the break 20-3 ahead.

Hayes slotted a second penalty three minutes into the second half as Glasgow started to look much sharper.

Graeme Burns attempts to take out Rory Kerr

A Hayes break sent Kerr off on a blazing run and, after the influential Blackadder had been sin-binned, Glasgow scrum-half Graeme Beveridge nipped in for an opportunist try.

Hayes converted but Edinburgh blasted back with Murray almost going over.

Edinburgh kept up the pressure, Gordon Simpson was sin-binned and Hodge exacted the penalty.

After a stodgy period of stalemate Hayes' 50-yard penalty brought Glasgow back into the game with nine minutes remaining.

The Glasgow stand-off narrowed the gap further with his fourth penalty and only a hint of a forward pass halted a sweeping Glasgow move which had try written all over it.

Rather than close the game down in the final minutes Edinburgh continued to spread the ball but were unable to breach the home defence.