RELAX - that is what Newport Gwent Dragons coach Chris Anderson will urge his team to do going into today's crucial Heineken Cup clash against Edinburgh at Rodney Parade.

The Dragons must win and score four tries to earn a bonus point if they are to travel to group leaders Newcastle next week with any chance of making the quarter-finals of the competition.

At the same time, French aces Perpignan must beat Newcastle at the Stade Aime Giral today, but without achieving a bonus point.

If it works out in the Dragons' favour they would need to beat Newcastle at Kingston Park a week tomorrow with a bonus point, and they will be through. If the English team beat Perpignan today it will be all over for the Dragons.

"We just need to stay relaxed because if you keep thinking you've got to score four tries it can backfire on you," said Anderson.

"We need to go out and not put the pressure of bonus points on ourselves, just play well and not look at the end result. If we put a good performance in we'll get the four tries.

"Edinburgh can throw the ball around, they are a side that can capitalise on your mistakes so we can't let them play an open style. We've got to get up on them and stop them getting into their stride. We made a couple of mistakes when we lost to them here in the league, and they are a side that can score tries.

"We've had their measure in the two games we've played against them this season, but made mistakes, that's the only time they hurt us.

"We need to be tight and professional, then get our game going and we can win.

"We've had an up and down month, we've changed our style a bit and I was disappointed with our performance at Llanelli when we were untidy at times.

"It was a game we could have won, we put in a lot of effort and maybe we didn't have a lot of self belief."

Anderson revealed that the Dragons have made a new year's resolution - to be more consistent.

"We've played some good games and had a couple of losses, but we could have done better," he admitted.

"The theme for the new year is to be more consistent.

"Hopefully we'll win with a bonus point today and Perpignan will beat Newcastle and we'll go up there and beat them, but we're 100% focused on winning this game first."

The match (kick-off 2.30pm) will be refereed by Irishman Alain Rolland, one of the best officials in the game.