Warrington Beat Wakefield To Extend Winning Start: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

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Warrington Wolves (14) 27


Tries: Sipley, Hopoate, Smith, King Goals: Sneyd 5 Drop goal: Sneyd


Wakefield Trinity (2) 16


Tries: Jowitt, Myers, Pratt Goals: Jowitt 2


Warrington made it through a strong Wakefield fightback in the 2nd half to make it 2 wins from two in Super League.


The Wolves, who were coming off the back of a blank weekend due to the fact that of Hull Kingston Rovers' involvement worldwide Club Challenge, seemed to have actually taken a company grip on the game in the first half.


Tries from Toafofoa Sipley and Albert Hopoate, together with the trusted kicking of Marc Sneyd, had them 14-2 up at the break.


Trinity, who chalked up their first win of the season at Huddersfield last week, returned well as Jake Trueman remarkably developed pursues Max Jowitt and Jayden Myers.


Wire replied as Australian newcomer Josh Smith crossed for his first try but Oliver Pratt's rating for Trinity set up a nervy ending, with the outcome settled by Sneyd's drop objective and Toby King's late try.


Wire offered more evidence that they might make a fist of challenging for honours this season as Sneyd gave a kicking masterclass and they had the defensive resilience to hold company as came excellent.


Wakefield had actually won the previous 3 meetings of these 2, however they were soon in trouble as Sneyd slotted over a charge and after that video referee Chris Kendall overturned an on-field verdict of "no try" to offer Sipley four points.


A few minutes later on, Hopoate supported Danny Walker's break to streak away for another shot for 14-0.


Wire appeared to have made an expensive error as they responded to strong Wakefield pressure right at the end of the half by committing repeat offences which saw Sipley sin-binned and Jowitt kick the resulting penalty to provide his side a toe-hold.


That became a firmer platform early in the 2nd half as Trinity made use of the extra guy, Trueman slinging a great pass over the top for Jowitt to score in the corner.


Sipley's very first act upon returning to the field was a ruck violation which led to Trueman coming up with an even much better looping cut-out pass and Myers ended up to cut the lead to simply 4 points.


That stimulated Wire into action after a drop in pace and Sneyd's boot took control as he chipped the ball out to Smith, playing superior rugby for the very first time, to score his first try, which Sneyd transformed and then added a penalty to provide his side breathing room.


Pratt then got on the end of a great kick by Jack Sinfield to score in the corner and when Jowitt brilliantly nailed the hard conversion, the game was back in the balance.


Wakefield seemed certain to score as Myers streaked for the corner however 20-year-old full-back Cai Taylor-Wray, who wowed the crowd with his assaulting prowess versus St Helens, produced a splendid take on to bundle him into touch and retain the lead.


Sneyd dropped an objective and after that cracked another delicate kick to the corner for Smith to get and pass in mid-air for King to eliminate any doubt.


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'A really premium game'


"It was a truly high-quality video game. Both sides were at 90-something percent conclusion.


"They were physical and we needed to ride out the very first half but the game lost its way a bit in the second half - [it was] not down to the gamers, it simply got a bit stop-start.


"In the very first half we might have assaulted a little much better. There are areas we can look at where we can challenge a bit more and ask a couple of more concerns.


"The method the game is going, it will take teams eight to 10 weeks to figure it out, and it's the very same with us. Our patience was great at times and we were 100% in the very first half up until the regrettable sin-binning."


Warrington Wolves: Taylor-Wray; Thewlis, King, Hopoate, Smith; Williams, Sneyd; Yates, Walker, Byrne, Stone, Harrison, Currie.


Replacements: Sipley, Crowther, Philbin, Tanginoa.


Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt; Pratt, Scott, Hall, Myers; Sinfield, Trueman; McMeeken, Smoothy, Hamlin-Uele, Nikotemo, Vagana, Tevaga.


Replacements: Storton, Pitts, Faatili, Smith.


Referee: Liam Rush