Josh Charnley scored his 250th and 251st Tremendous League tries as Leigh ended a six-game shedding streak towards Hull KR by beating the Tremendous League leaders 28-10 at Leigh Sports activities Village.
The 34-year-old winger reached his milestone with a 67th-minute effort earlier than touching down once more within the ultimate minute in Leopards’ first win over their guests since lifting the Problem Cup in 2023.
Recent from final week’s victory over champions Wigan, Adrian Lam’s facet jumped again into third with this six-try show.
Rovers have been properly crushed however stay prime, two factors away from Wigan regardless of shedding back-to-back video games for the primary time since Could 2024.
Ethan O’Neill, Umyla Hanley, Keanan Model and Lachlan Lam additionally crossed for the house facet, with Gareth O’Brien kicking two objectives, whereas Tyrone Could and Kelepi Tanginoa replied for the Robins.
It had been a protracted wait between factors for Leigh towards their guests, having been whitewashed in three successive league video games since a play-off semi-final defeat in September 2023.
However that drought ended after eight minutes in Leopards’ first assault. The sport’s first penalty offered the platform and ended with O’Neill leaping highest to gather Lam’s kick and touching down in entrance of Rovers’ followers.
Rovers’ determination to play Danny Richardson, rather than Man of Metal Mikey Lewis, absent by head harm protocols, did not pay dividends.
Richardson was pressured off with simply 16 minutes gone, bringing Jez Litten into the motion.
4 minutes later, although, Rovers levelled when Could jinked by a niche within the line of defense for Arthur Mourge, Tremendous League’s prime factors scorer, to degree.
The Robins threatened a second strive as Mourge and James Batchelor went shut whereas Tanginoa’s effort was disallowed for offside. Leigh recovered and capitalised on particular person errors to register two tries in six minutes. Centre Hanley dotted down after 26 minutes as reverse quantity Jack Broadbent missed his one-on-one sort out.
When Joe Burgess did not cleanly collect O’Brien’s kick, Model collected the free ball and stretched out to attain. O’Brien missed each conversion makes an attempt however Leigh led 14-6 on the break.
Tanginoa lower the deficit with a Forty eighth-minute rating as Bailey Hodgson’s uncommon dealing with error introduced the prospect.
However that is the place the comeback ended as Lam completed off a superb break from bulldozing centre Tesi Niu after 50 minutes.
Charnley’s landmark try to final-minute effort sealed the factors and confirmed Leopards as real Grand Remaining contenders.
Tremendous League Spherical 18 Outcomes and Fixtures (all stay on Sky Sports activities)
Thursday July 10
Friday July 11
Saturday July 12
- 6pm: Catalans Dragons vs Warrington Wolves
Sunday July 13
- 3pm: Salford Crimson Devils vs Castleford Tigers
Watch each Tremendous League recreation this season stay on Sky Sports activities – together with two matches in every spherical solely stay, with the remaining 4 matches every week proven on Sky Sports activities+ by way of the purple button.
