Tremendous League: Warrington Wolves combat again for slender win in opposition to Leeds Rhinos in 5,000th match as Wakefield Trinity dominate Leigh Leopards

A Jake Thewlis attempt proved the distinction as Warrington Wolves fought again for a 16-14 win in opposition to Leeds Rhinos in spherical six of Tremendous League on a landmark evening on the Halliwell Jones Stadium.

As Tremendous League celebrated its 5,000th match since its inception in 1996, two of the competitors’s giants placed on a dramatic present that strikes Warrington Wolves as much as third within the desk, with Leeds staying sixth with three wins and three losses.

It was Leeds who had the benefit on the break regardless of Warrington opening the scoring by way of an excellent transformed effort from Arron Lindop, the guests’ breaking by way of by way of James McDonnell and Riley Lumb to take a 10-6 lead in at half-time.

Leeds then prolonged their lead by way of Ryan Corridor however Warrington hit again by way of a transformed Stefan Ratchford attempt to scale back their deficit to 2 factors.

The essential second then arrived as Keenan Palasia was despatched to the sin bin for a excessive shot and Warrington instantly used their participant benefit to ship Thewlis over within the nook and mark themselves because the winners of the historic 5,000th Tremendous League match.

Warrington maintain combating as Rhinos rue errors

The stage was set for a monumental 5,000th match and within the early phases each outfits delivered some electrical attacking play that match the invoice.

It was Warrington winger Lindop who opened the scoring on the twelfth minute, a sensational particular person effort which noticed him again his tempo and acquire his personal chip to ship the gang and head coach Sam Burgess wild, Marc Sneyd including the extras on his house debut to place Warrington 6-0 in entrance.

Nonetheless, it was solely 5 minutes later that Leeds hit again with their left edge inflicting all type of issues for Warrington, a Lumb break downfield ending with Connor sending an inside, and probably ahead, go for McDonnell to stroll over.

It was then the influential Connor who introduced issues degree at 6-6 along with his conversion and he was not completed for the opening 40.

With each side backing their forwards and being affected person, Leeds’ harmful left edge went from aiding to scoring on the twenty sixth minute as, after Lumb was stopped brief, Connor discovered him simply a few tackles later with a surprising miss go to extend the guests’ benefit.

Regardless of each side then chancing their arm, Leeds managed to face agency and took their 10-6 lead in on the break.

Though Warrington began the second half on prime, it was Leeds who discovered the pivotal second so as to add some extra factors to their tally that additionally noticed the ever-reliable Corridor lengthen his lead on the prime of the all-time Tremendous League try-scoring charts along with his 257th effort within the nook on his 501st profession look, the diving end coming after his personal break by way of the center of the sector.

That put the guests 14-6 up with slightly below half-hour left of the competition however after a sustained interval of strain and a foolish penalty from Tom Holroyd proper on his personal line, Warrington lastly hit again.

A beautiful Williams go resulted in a unbelievable stretching end from stalwart Ratchford and with Sneyd’s conversion, there have been simply two factors in it with quarter-hour left.

The strain on Leeds solely elevated additional as they have been diminished to 12 males with seven minutes remaining, Palasia catching Lachlan Fitzgibbon excessive and incomes a yellow card for his efforts.

That participant benefit instantly paid dividends as Matt Dufty despatched Thewlis diving over within the nook and regardless of Sneyd lacking the conversion, the 2 factors was sufficient to safe one other huge win for Warrington.

Burgess: We by no means gave in and I like our spirit

Warrington head coach Sam Burgess instructed Sky Sports activities:

“I was really proud of them. It was a really tough game, especially the first half. It slowed down a bit in the second half, but I love our spirit.

“It was fairly a difficult begin to the yr after which we bounced again. The gamers are out of place, we’re lacking all 4 outdoors backs from final week, and we by no means gave in.

“Some young boys took some moments and in the end we set that play during the week, and you could see they got it home in the last few minutes.

“I do not know [if players will be back from injury soon]. We’ll get pleasure from this win tonight. We have got 9 days [before facing St Helens in the Challenge Cup quarter-finals], which is sweet.

“Since the start of the year we’ve had a lot of travel, short turnarounds, so we’ll rest up, check our healthiness on Monday and see where we go from there. Whoever takes the field, we’ll look forward to them doing the job.”

Arthur: Perhaps I must develop into a coach that whinges about referees

Leeds head coach Brad Arthur instructed Sky Sports activities:

“Very heroic, the effort in defence, it was great, the physicality was great, we scrambled, worked really hard and just in the second half there, a couple of penalties and errors gave them a lot of field position and they had a lot of ball at our tryline.

“So we have got some issues to work on however there’s positively a crew there. We have simply received to tidy up a few bits and items.

“I’ve seen plenty of those already five rounds in [tackles unpunished like Palasia’s], so maybe as a coach I’ll need to complain more and whinge about the referee.

“We have labored actually arduous on our self-discipline and we will not be the least penalised crew within the competitors all through the primary 4 or 5 video games after which we come right here tonight and get seven penalties within the second half.”

Wakefield proceed spectacular begin with seven-try rout of Leigh

Wakefield’s promising return to the Betfred Tremendous League continued with a formidable 40-14 win at Leigh on Friday.

Mike McMeeken put Trinity heading in the right direction for victory with two tries in a decent first half earlier than two gorgeous length-of-the-field interception scores from Tom Johnstone put the consequence past doubt.

Olly Russell additionally claimed a brace whereas Liam Hood was one other to the touch down for the guests, with Mason Lino changing six of the seven.

Wakefield have now received three from six of their first season again within the prime flight whereas the Leopards, after launching their marketing campaign with three wins and a draw, have now misplaced two in succession.

The consequence additionally meant the Yorkshire facet landed a psychological blow on Leigh forward of their assembly within the Problem Cup quarter-finals subsequent week.

Tremendous League Spherical Six Fixtures (all dwell on Sky Sports activities)

Saturday March 29

• 5.30pm: Catalans Dragons vs St Helens

Sunday March 30

• 3pm: Huddersfield Giants vs Hull Kingston Rovers
• 3pm: Wigan Warriors vs Salford Purple Devils

Sky Sports activities will once more present each sport of the Tremendous League dwell this season – together with two matches in every spherical solely dwell, with the remaining 4 matches every week proven on Sky Sports activities+ by way of the pink button.