Round 21 of the NRL season kicks off on Thursday night with Parramatta hosting Penrith in the Western Sydney derby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Panthers, who are coming off a loss against Brisbane and have dropped three of their past four matches, will be looking to right the ship against the battling Eels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Follow the live blog below, keep up to date with all the latest stats in our Score Centre<\/a>, and tune in to our live radio coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:17pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:17pm<\/p>\n Sin bin: Isaiah Papali’i<\/p>\n The Panthers backrower is off to the bin after he was ruled to have taken out Moses following a Tuilagi break. Rough call I think, to me Moses had grabbed at the Penrith player. Eels on the attack.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:12pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:12pm<\/p>\n 57′ Martin goes over for Panthers<\/p>\n A set restart on the last puts the Penrith right on the attack and as they roll through the middle they start to look likely and in the end Lussick hits Martin short for the backrower to power over.<\/p>\n They’re rolling now. Once Cleary converts it’s 18-12 Panthers.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:10pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:10pm<\/p>\n Injury: Luca Moretti<\/p>\n The Eels prop is done for the night after being deemed a Cat 1 HIA.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:07pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:07pm<\/p>\n 52′ Panthers level in controversial fashion<\/p>\n Talagi looks to have knocked on for sure just outside the Eels 20 but the referee says play on!<\/p>\n As if on cue, the Panthers go over just a few tackles later as Cleary hits Henry with a nice short ball. Controversial stuff, I thought it was a clear error.<\/p>\n Cleary converts and we’re all square at 12.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:01pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 9:01pm<\/p>\n 47′ Kelly lets Penrith off the hook<\/p>\n Parramatta have done well to win the early exchanges and Kelly makes a strong charge over halfway only to lose it in the play the ball.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:58pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:58pm<\/p>\n Second half is underwayThu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:39pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:39pm<\/p>\n Sin bin: Thomas Jenkins<\/p>\n We can expect the prolific try-scorer to come back in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:39pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:39pm<\/p>\n Halftime: Eels 12 lead Panthers 6<\/p>\n To’o is ruled to have touched a Moses clearing kick – dunno about that one, Snicko wouldn’t have liked it – but the Eels have yet another chance.<\/p>\n Penrith clean up an early Moses kick but a Jenkins error in contact gives it right back to them.<\/p>\n Alamoti takes a kick dead and from the drop out Kelly tries a grubber for himself down the line! We go to the Bunker.<\/p>\n He’s just knocked it on, but Jenkins is ruled to have taken him out and the winger will go to the bin! Penrith will be without their winger for the first ten of the second half.<\/p>\n Moses takes the shot at penalty goal from the sideline as the siren sounds – what a finish, by the way – and though he can’t convert the Eels are on top.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:24pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:24pm<\/p>\n 29′ Panthers lose their challenge<\/p>\n There’s an error from Penrith on their own goal-line after Talagi failed to claim a Moses kick. They burn their challenge on it as well.<\/p>\n Can the Eels extend their lead? Not quite – they test the Panthers plenty but Penrith hold and once they wrap up Kautoga on the last it’s a handover.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:17pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:17pm<\/p>\n 24′ Eels hold the line<\/p>\n A simple error from Volkman at dummy half inside his own 20 gives the Panthers a chance at more points.<\/p>\n Leota nearly pulls through and Lussick goes for it from dummy half. We go to the Bunker, but Lussick has already run straight back to the ten. Held up.<\/p>\n Last tackle, Penrith spread it left but Kelly jams in and shuts down McLean.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:10pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:10pm<\/p>\n 18′ McLean pulls one back for Penrith<\/p>\n Iongi loses the ball three tackles after the restart and the Panthers have a chance to reply.<\/p>\n On the last tackle they go high for Jenkins, he’s well covered but manages to pop a pass to McLean who goes over in the corner courtesy of a fantastic put down!<\/p>\n Excellent footy from both the Panthers and they’re on the board. Cleary nails it from touch and it’s 12-6.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:04pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:04pm<\/p>\n 13′ Moses strikes again for Parra<\/p>\n Another penalty, this time against Smith in the ruck on the last tackle, and the Eels have a chance at even more points.<\/p>\n Moses strikes again, this time with a super short ball to Williams who hits a gap and shows great footwork to score!<\/p>\n An excellent Eels try and once Moses converts they lead 12-0.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:01pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 8:01pm<\/p>\n 10′ Parramatta let Penrith off the hook<\/p>\n After a high tackle the Eels on the attack but Moretti puts it down.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:57pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:57pm<\/p>\n 7′ Teams trade errors<\/p>\n Penrith get a penalty to get them out of trouble but they don’t find touch! Then the Eels relieve the pressure as Moses drops it.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:54pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:54pm<\/p>\n 4′ Moses opens the scoring for Parra<\/p>\n Iongi puts Moretti through a clean hole and Edgar drags him down but the Eels are on the attack.<\/p>\n Volkman kicks towards the posts, Moses rises high and claims it to score under the posts!<\/p>\n Parramatta strike first through their superstar. He converts his own try and it’s 6-0 Eels.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:50pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:50pm<\/p>\n And away we go!<\/p>\n Penrith kicking off, running right to left.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:42pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 7:42pm<\/p>\n Tips<\/p>\n Hard to go past Penrith for this one, even accounting for their recent mixed form. Let’s go Panthers by 18 with Casey McLean scoring first.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:56pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:56pm<\/p>\n Who is Jaxen Edgar?<\/p>\n Get to know the young fella playing fullback for the Panthers tonight – the club has a huge wrap on him. He’s another local product and a former Australian Schoolboy.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:33pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:33pm<\/p>\n Final teams: Panthers turn to young gun<\/p>\n Two changes for the Eels with Will Penisini coming in at centre and Luca Moretti starting at second row and Kelma Tuilagi riding the pine.<\/p>\n The big change is at Penrith where Jaxen Edgar will line up at fullback in relief of Dylan Edwards.<\/p>\n Edgar has only played one NRL match and he got just a few minutes in it, but the 20-year old has plenty of big wraps.<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:31pm<\/p>\n Thu 23 Jul 2026 at 6:31pm<\/p>\n Hello and welcome to the ABC’s NRL live blog<\/p>\n Hey everyone, Round 21 of the NRL season gets underway with Parramatta hosting Penrith.<\/p>\n The western Sydney derby always delivers so strap in and let’s have some fun.<\/p>\n I’m Nick Campton, you’re a rabid NRL fan, let’s make some plays out there tonight.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Round 21 of the NRL season kicks off on Thursday night with Parramatta hosting Penrith in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,30241,160,22326,1203,158,5357,159,161,85],"class_list":["post-818591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eels","tag-live-blog","tag-mitchell-moses","tag-nathan-cleary","tag-nrl","tag-panthers","tag-rugby-league","tag-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818591","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=818591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}