NZ Warriors have slipped from second on the NRL table with a listless 18-6 defeat to Canterbury Bulldogs in Sydney.<\/p>\n
The home side rocked the visitors early with back-to-back tries to skipper Stephen Crichton and second-rower Jacob Preston inside the opening 11 minutes, and the Warriors could not find an answer in the first half.<\/p>\n
Trailling 12-0 at the break, they needed to score next, but repeatedly shot themselves in the foot with mistakes, as they barely threatened the tryline.<\/p>\n
Instead, Bulldogs wing Jacob Kiraz found the corner to extend the Bulldogs advantage.<\/p>\n
Warriors wing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak had his chances and eventually crossed in the corner, but had his try disallowed for a forward past.<\/p>\n
Still scoreless with six minutes remaining, the Warriors finally found the scoreboard, when front-rower Mitch Barnett kicked on the last tackle and five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita gathered the bounce for a try.<\/p>\n
The result means they now slide to third on the competition ladder and they also face several worrying injuries, with fullback Taine Tuaupiki limping off during the first half with a foot complaint.<\/p>\n
See how the game unfolded below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Warriors have slipped from second on the NRL table with a listless 18-6 defeat to Canterbury Bulldogs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-543347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}