St Helens head coach Paul Wellens says he is “not overly concerned” along with his facet’s attacking struggles as they get set to face in-form Leigh Leopards on Thursday.
St Helens are one of many in kind sides in Tremendous League, successful their final 5 straight, however apart from two heavy victories over bottom-placed Salford Purple Devils, Wellens’ facet have scored solely 37 factors throughout wins over Leeds Rhinos (twice) and Hull FC, counting on a sturdy defence.
They arrive up in opposition to one other red-hot facet on Thursday night time in Leigh – dwell on Sky Sports activities Motion from 7.30pm (8pm kick-off) – who sit one place greater within the desk in third, having earned spectacular wins over second-placed Wigan Warriors and table-toppers Hull KR of their final two, beating the latter 28-10 final week.
“I think they’re doing a lot right,” Wellens stated of Leigh, when chatting with Sky Sports activities forward of their conflict.
“Clearly they’re very aggressive, at the beginning. Their work ethic is correct up there with each staff within the competitors, they usually’ve bought plenty of particular person attacking threats that may harm you.
“I feel the rationale they’re being profitable within the league, the rationale they’re successful video games in opposition to good opposition is their collective work ethic.
“I think you need that in in this competition if you are going to beat the better teams, which they’ve obviously managed to do in the last two weeks.”
As for his personal staff’s attacking struggles in latest weeks, regardless of their win streak, Wellens added: “I feel the way in which we defend at instances can generally take away from our assault.
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St Helens’ head coach Paul Wellens has admitted their defensive model can ‘take away from their assault’ however says he ‘is not overly involved.’
“Players like Matthew Lees and Morgan Knowles really do front load their energy into the defensive efforts, and I wouldn’t have it any other way, but certainly moving forward we’ll look to improve with ball in hand.
“I feel it is vital that we do make these enhancements however I am not overly involved about that at this second in time.
“I think the way that we’re playing, we’re having to grind games out in a tough manner at this moment in time, but we’ll certainly look to make those improvements moving forward.”
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Highlights of the Tremendous League conflict between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens.
Tremendous League Spherical 19 Fixtures (all dwell on Sky Sports activities)
Thursday July 17
- 8pm: St Helens vs Leigh Leopards
Friday July 18
- 8pm: Huddersfield Giants vs Wakefield Trinity
- 8pm: Leeds Rhinos vs Salford Purple Devils
Saturday July 19
- 3pm: Wigan Warriors vs Hull FC
- 6pm: Catalans Dragons vs Hull KR
Sunday July 20
- 3pm: Castleford Tigers vs Warrington Wolves
Watch each Tremendous League sport this season dwell on Sky Sports activities – 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.
