Tremendous League Magic Weekend: Leigh 24-6 Warrington – Leopards improve play-offs bid by dominating Wolves

David Armstrong scored an excellent breakaway attempt as Leigh Leopards dominated Warrington Wolves throughout Tremendous League Magic Weekend at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday; watch all of Sunday’s matches from Liverpool dwell on Sky Sports activities

Leigh Leopards bolstered their hopes of creating the Betfred Tremendous League play-offs after David Armstrong led them to a dominant 24-6 victory in opposition to Warrington Wolves throughout Magic Weekend.

Warrington regarded a shade of their normal selves at Hill Dickinson Stadium, with Sam Burgess’ facet managing just one rating, a breakaway attempt from Marc Sneyd within the last two minutes of the sport.

Aside from that, there was little to have a good time for the Wolves, who have been outclassed by their opponents within the first half, however head coach Sam Burgess mentioned he was happy with his staff for persevering with to combat.

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Tesi Niu carries two Warrington Wolves defenders with him over the road for his fourth attempt of the season for Leigh

“The start was tough, we got on the wrong side of the error and penalty count early,” Burgess mentioned.

“I am proud of them for hanging in. Leigh are a challenging team with a lot of great players. We will dust ourselves off and go again next week.”

Leigh began strongly, battering the Warrington defence again to their attempt line, earlier than Tesi Niu bulldozed his means over for his fourth attempt of the season.

David Armstrong crashes over the attempt line for Leigh

It was not lengthy earlier than that they had one other, with Umyla Hanley offloading to Armstrong, the participant of the match, who zipped his means upfield away from a chasing pack of Wolves gamers to attain a breakaway attempt.

The primary half continued in the identical style. Whereas Leigh weren’t prolific of their scoring, Warrington didn’t supply a lot going ahead, with the half-time stats proving damning.

Leigh took 61 per cent of possession heading into the break and had made 180 extra metres than their opponents.

After returning to the sphere, Warrington regarded considerably galvanised, however they continued to make errors, and Leigh made them pay for not taking their possibilities.

Maybe their greatest alternative of the second half got here not lengthy after half-time, with the Wolves working by their units, earlier than Sneyd scuffed a kick excessive to Leigh’s Adam Prepare dinner.

Ruthlessly, the Leopards then turned defence into assault, with Edwin Ipape utilizing his power to crash over the Wolves’ tryline from dummy half for his facet’s third attempt.

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Warrington’s Sam Powell was despatched to the sin-bin for a hip drop on Niu

Issues went from dangerous to worse for Warrington, with Sam Powell being despatched to the sin-bin for a hip-drop sort out on try-scorer Niu.

Powell had wrapped his legs round Niu, who fell in a clumsy place, extending his leg at an uncomfortable angle, and was changed by Gareth O’Brien. Leigh followers will worry the worst, with Niu seen sitting within the dugout with ice on his knee after.

With a person down, the Wolves struggled to maintain tempo with the Leigh attackers, with Prepare dinner popping a brief ball off to Hanley, who reduce a sensational line by the Wolves defence and strode dwelling for his or her fourth attempt of the match.

“It was a great performance,” Leigh Leopards’ head coach Adrian Lam advised Sky Sports activities. “I assumed we have been fairly bodily the entire time.

“It was good to beat a top-six staff. We would have liked a win like that. I’m simply grateful.”

Leigh, who sit in seventh place in the Super League standings, are now just two points shy of Hull KR, Wigan Warriors, St Helens and Wakefield Trinity, all on 22 points, as they continue their charge to make the top six.

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Super League 2026 – upcoming key dates

• Rivals Round reversed: July 23-July 26
• Elimination Play-offs: September 19-September 20
• Play-off semi-finals: September 26-September 27
• Grand Final: October 3

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