{"id":479706,"date":"2026-02-14T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:03:11","slug":"nrl-news-2026-pre-season-challenge-matt-burton-injury-bulldogs-vs-knights-result-video-highlights-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479706\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026 | Pre-season challenge, Matt Burton injury; Bulldogs vs Knights result, video, highlights; Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Burton<\/a>‘s Las Vegas adventure is in serious doubt after he injured his hamstring in the first half of the Bulldogs<\/a>‘ trial match against the Newcastle Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 24th minute, Burton was captured grabbing at the back of his left leg on the sidelines before he headed into the sheds.<\/p>\n

Greg Alexander explained the limp on Burton didn’t suggest great news.<\/p>\n

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“That’s never a good sign if a player is limping … generally if you have a minor hamstring you can walk without limping,” he said on Fox League.<\/p>\n

Burton was assessed by Bulldogs medical staff with Fox reporting they were “not too concerned” but scans will determine the extent of the injury. <\/p>\n

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Matt Burton leaves the field. \u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

Footage showed the injury occured when Burton threw a dummy at halfway and tried to pierce through the line.<\/p>\n

At the time of Burton’s departure, the Bulldogs were leading 10-0 after tries to himself and Jonathan Sua.<\/p>\n

Canterbury pushed on ins his absence with Jaeman Salmon crossing in the 33rd minute.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs head to Las Vegas on Friday to play against the Dragons on March 1. <\/p>\n

Burton was captured with ice on his hamstring in the sheds at half-time and Alexander said “I don’t think he’s any chance of playing in Vegas”. <\/p>\n

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Matt Burton on the sideline. \u00a0Fox League<\/p>\n

The second half brought more domination from the Bulldogs who led 16-0 at the first break. <\/p>\n

Viliame Kikau and Cooper Toy scored the final two tries to seal a 28-0 result with completion rates a glaring blemish for the Knights finishing at 64 per cent. <\/p>\n

For total errors, the Knights had 16 to the Bulldogs’ 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Burton‘s Las Vegas adventure is in serious doubt after he injured his hamstring in the first half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-479706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}