Mata produces majestic offload-praised by rugby legends

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Viliame Mata(right) celebrates win over Toulon. Picture PRO 14

Fiji Airways Flying Fijians forward Viliame Mata produced one the best offloads you ever see to help his Edinburgh side beat Toulon 28-17 in the European Championship Cup yesterday.

Mata was in sensational form which earned him the Man of the match award.

After Toulon dropped the ball on a promising movement, Edinburgh shifted the ball to Mata who weaved through the Toulon defence past the halfway before delivering a feather-touch offload to centre James Johnstone to score.

The Olympic gold medallist was praised by former All Black Ben Atiga calling him the best Number 8 in the world right now.

Edinburgh’s 28-17 win was just the third ever in opposition territory in the European competition.