{"id":722778,"date":"2026-06-08T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:31:14","slug":"late-drama-as-crichton-penalty-helps-dogs-topple-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722778\/","title":{"rendered":"Late drama as Crichton penalty helps Dogs topple Eels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Crichton has kicked a late penalty goal to help Canterbury slow the Bulldogs’ worrying run of NRL form with a 14-12 win over Parramatta.<\/p>\n

Crichton struck from the tee in the 76th minute at Accor Stadium on Monday after Eels hooker Tallyn Da Silva was penalised for a questionable high shot on Matt Burton.<\/p>\n

Burton laid down seeking treatment after Da Silva’s contact and failed to finish the match as he was sent for a head injury assessment.<\/p>\n

Crichton’s penalty got the Dogs home after the first scoreless first half in the NRL in five years.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Crichton was prominent in the big moments and proved a handful for the Eels. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)<\/p>\n

Cameron Ciraldo’s side (5-8) climbed to 13th on the NRL ladder but the first half was a snapshot of Canterbury’s season when they dominated possession and territory and outran the Eels by more than 230m.<\/p>\n

Despite having 17 play-the-balls in the Eels’ 20m zone in the opening 40 minutes, the Bulldogs’ attack was blunt and directionless.<\/p>\n

The Eels thought Josh Papalii had scored a try on the stroke of halftime, only for his effort to be called back for a knock on, resulting in the first scoreless first half since a 2021 meeting between the Eels and Canberra.<\/p>\n

Sitili Tupouniua was held up early into the second half before finally crashing over for the game’s opening try off a Lachlan Galvin shortball in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n

Three minutes after Canterbury finally got on the board, captain Stephen Crichton helped his side double their lead.<\/p>\n

Crichton climbed above Eels fullback Isaiah Iongi to claim a Galvin bomb to touch down.<\/p>\n

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Josh Addo-Carr was instrumental to the Eels’ efforts and helping them stay right in the contest. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)<\/p>\n

But just when the Bulldogs thought they were beginning to pull away, the Eels hit back with a double salvo in back-to-back sets to send the game to the wire.<\/p>\n

Winger Josh Addo-Carr made a burst down the left and grubbered in-field for Da Silva to slide in and the hooker was quickly followed over by Papalii after a midfield bust from Eels debutant Teancum Brown.<\/p>\n

The Eels were hunting a third after Ronald Volkman forced a goal-line drop-out but Da Silva brought the halfback’s work undone when he was penalised for an escort on Tupouniua – and then handed the Bulldogs the win.<\/p>\n

Da Silva was placed on report by referee Todd Smith for a debatable high shot on Bulldogs five-eighth Burton and Crichton stepped up to slot the winning penalty from 40m out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Crichton has kicked a late penalty goal to help Canterbury slow the Bulldogs’ worrying run of NRL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4026,4510,30241,13217,761,762,158,7680,85,4546,48270],"class_list":["post-722778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulldogs","tag-da-silva","tag-eels","tag-matt-burton","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-penalty-goal","tag-sports","tag-stephen-crichton","tag-tallyn-da-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722778","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=722778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}