Warrington Wolves safe 30-22 victory to finish run of three defeats in a row; watch each Tremendous League recreation this season dwell on Sky Sports activities with the blockbuster table-topping Wigan vs Hull KR conflict completely dwell at 8pm on Friday evening
Final Up to date: 14/08/25 11:03pm
Ryan Matterson celebrates after Warrington staged a comeback win
Warrington Wolves recovered from a 16-point deficit to maintain their Betfred Tremendous League play-off hopes alive with a laboured 30-22 victory over struggling Catalans Dragons.
The out-of-sorts Wolves, whose current poor outcomes have been exacerbated by off-field points, had been shocked because the Dragons ran in 4 tries within the first half-hour on the Halliwell Jones Stadium.
Three of the French facet’s tries got here from former St Helens winger Tommy Makinson however his absence via harm within the second half proved expensive because the Wolves rallied.
Jake Thewlis crossed twice for the hosts both facet of a Sam Stone effort and Josh Thewlis lastly made the outcome sure, ending a run of three successive Warrington defeats, within the closing minutes.
How Catalans gave Wolves a fright earlier than fightback
Jake Thewlis scored a attempt in every half
Warrington coach Sam Burgess controversially dropped influential full-back Matt Dufty for disciplinary causes final week, warning the Australian he wanted to “fix his behaviour up”.
Dufty’s title was once more lacking from the Wolves squad and two different key gamers in Toby King and Paul Vaughan had been additionally absent for unknown causes.
The Dragons, regardless of their very own lack of type having gained only one of their earlier 10 below new coach Joel Tomkins, initially exploited uncertainty within the residence ranks.
Makinson took simply 4 minutes to make his mark as he squeezed over on the left.
Warrington pulled stage after they retained possession from a Marc Sneyd kick and thrillingly saved the ball alive for Zack Gardner to attain from a looping George Williams cross.
But defensively, the hosts had little cohesion and Catalans reduce them open 3 times in fast succession to open up a 22-6 lead.
Matthieu Laguerre touched down after breaking via weak challenges from Sneyd and Stefan Ratchford, and Makinson grabbed one other after Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet had gained a race to his personal kick.
Boos then rang across the stadium as Makinson accomplished his 30-minute treble when he leapt to seize a Luke Keary kick and Aispuro-Bichet landed his third conversion.
Sadly for the guests, Makinson was harm within the scoring of that attempt to featured little within the the rest of the sport.
Warrington rallied to chop the arrears to 4 factors with tries both facet of half-time.
Jake Thewlis burst away down the left to offer them hope and Stone received on the scoresheet when he pounced on a Williams kick.
The momentum was now all with the Wolves but it surely was not till the seventieth minute they broke via the Dragons’ resilient defence once more as Jake Thewlis produced a spectacular diving end within the nook.
Sneyd’s conversion from the touchline gave Warrington the lead for the primary time on the evening and Josh Thewlis picked up a free ball to safe the factors throughout a scrappy ending. Sneyd completed along with his fifth aim of the evening.
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