Match Report – Warrington 16 – 24 Huddersfield

Huddersfield Giants Stunned Warrington Wolves to Earning Just Their Second Super League Victory This Season; Leigh Leopards also stormed to dominant 26-12 Win Over Catalans Dragons.

Jacob Gagai (right) scored two tries for huddersfield

Huddersfield Stunned Warrington With a 24-16 Win to Claim A Second Super League Victory of the Season with Jacob Gagai’s Two Tries Bookending the Giants’ Triumph.

It was a sticky afternoon in More Ways Than One for Wire – Although UNFORTUNATELY NOT WHEN IT CAME TO THEIR HANDLING, with a number of unforced errors promver costly – as predicted thunderstorms gave way to sunny, humid conditions at the halliwell jones stadium.

Despite a Late Surge with Two Tries in the closing 15 minutes, Warrington Couldn’t Catch The Team That Were Winless Until Just Last Month.

“I’m overjoyed for the players and fans,” Huddersfield Head Coach Luke Robinson Said. “I’m overjoyed for the players in Particular Because I Don’t Think People realizes How Hard They Have Been Working.

“It’s very easy to turn on each other, turn on your coach, when you are not Winning Games and they have been unbelievably Steadfast in their culture.

“We probably should have won about oven or five game that that earlier in the season so to actually come out of the other side it’s a real mindle for us.

“What we have to try to do now is keep that momentum and keep that form.”

Marc Sneyd Scored Warrington’s First Try and Kicked Two Conversions

Huddersfield Lost Back-Rower Sam Hewitt to A Head Injury after three minutes and despite some early unfoced errors giving the hosts Planty of possession, it was huddersfield who Were More Clinical.

George Williams’ 15th-Minute Mistake Saw His Pass Intercepted 10 Yards from Huddersfield’s Line by Tui Lolohea Who Ran 50 Yards Before Offloading to Gagai to Cross.

Jake Bibby Doubled The Lead, Spinning Over from Sam Halsall’s Pass, After Warrington, Who Gave a Debut to Sam Stone He joined on loan from Salford, Had Conceed a Penalty for Jordy Crowther’s Late Hit On Matt Frewley.

The Mistakes Keppt Coming and Giants’ Short Drop-out Backfired With A Knock-On Wh Gave the Hosts A Scrum in Front of the Posts, and Marc Sneyd Weaved His Way Over and then Landed the Kick to Halve The Deficit.

George Flanagan’s Penalty Extended the lead to 14-6 On the Half-Hour As the Visitors Finized The Half Strongly.

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Highlights of the Super League Match Between Warrington Wolves and Huddersfield Giants

On the Hooter Crowther made an accusation of eye gouging, resumer in taane milne being put on report with the video referee unable to find any evidence.

Another Warrington Handling Error, this Time from Jake Thewlis, presented Giants with the scrum Allowing Milne to Score His First Try for the Club and Flanagan’s Kick Opened Up A 14-Point Lead.

Huddersfield Suffered Another Blowe When Ashton Golding Departed With A Neck Injury But It Appeared To Make No Impact As Flanagan’s Brilliant Burst Forward Allowed Lolohea to Touch Down, only to be denied by an obstruction ruling.

If Warrington Hoped That Could Have Been A Pivotal Moment, Gagai Killed Off Their Hopes With A Last-Ditch Tackle to Prevent Toby King Diving in the Corner Before Crossing Himself at the other end to Send Home Fans Heading for the exits.

King Did Eventually Get His Try to Leave the Hosts 12 Behind With As Many Minutes Remaining and then Thewlis Dived Over But, With a Franstic Finish in the Offing, Sneyd’s Mosed Kick Left the Hosts Too Much to Do As Their Season Continued To Unravel With A Fifth Defeat in Six Matches.

Catalans Slide continues Against Leigh

Leigh Condemned Catalans Dragons To Their Seventh Straight Defeat in All Competitions with a 26-12 Victory in Sweltering Conditions at the stadium Gilbert Brutus.

Although the Worst Losing Streak in Their History Continued, Three Were Some Signs of Recovery As the Dragons Kep Pace With Leigh Lute in the Second Half.

As for Leopards, Roared on by a Vocal 1,600 supporters in Perpignan, they look a shoo-in for a super league play-off spot and will fear no one one they can keep their players fit at the end of the season.

Sam Tomkins, Catalan Dragons, Returned after Suffering from a serious knee infection and wore the captain’s armband in place of the suspended ben garcia

Leigh Crossed 10 Minutes Before the Interval when Lachlan Lam and full-back David Armstrong Created the Space for Tesi Niu to Sprint Over on the Left from 10 meters out. Gareth O’Brien Converted from the touchline for a 6-0 lead.

Leigh Soon Doubled Their Advantage When Lam Spun The Ball To The Opposite Flank for Winger Keanan Brand to Score in the right corner, with o’brien Again Converting.

The Dragons Soon Opened Their Account as Giant Prop Tevita Pangai Junior Crashed Over the Line from Short Range Just Before Half-Time.

The Try of the Game Came from the Hosts Eight minutes after the interval when tommy makinson finished off a flourishing involving luke keary and oliver gone, and a Stunning pass out wide from Sam Tomkins.

Makinson’s Conversion Levelled the score but he miss a second penalty in the 55th which would have put the dragons ahead.

Leigh Leopards’ Keanan Brand

Pangai Junior was sin-binned in the 65th minute for late and high contact on o’brien. The penalty bounced back from the posts and leigh reghered to put prop joe ofhengaue over from shorts to regain the lead at 18-12.

And in the 72nd minute, full-back Armstrong set off on a Blistering 60-Metre Break, Racing Around His Opposite Number Tomkins for the Killer Try.

O’Brien Converted to Extend Leigh’s Advantage To 24-12, Before Adding A 79th-Minute Penalty to Complete The Scoring.

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