Betfred Super League<\/p>\n
Warrington (6) 18<\/p>\n
Tries: Ashton, Hopoate, Bentley Goals: Irwin 3<\/p>\n
Catalans (10) 16<\/p>\n
Tries: Lipowicz, Cotric, Dodd Goals: Aispuro-Bichet 2<\/p>\n
Warrington overcame injury problems to move level on points with Leeds Rhinos at the top of Super League with a gutsy win over Catalans.<\/p>\n
The Wolves, who lost Arron Lindop and Josh Thewlis to injury, had to play the entire second half at the Halliwell Jones Stadium with a reshuffled backline, but they dug deep to hold out against the big French side.<\/p>\n
Stand-in full-back Ewan Irwin, who crucially kicked three conversions out of three, was the hero, with the 18-year-old producing a brilliant try-saving tackle on Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet late on to clinch the win.<\/p>\n
It was an important bounce-back victory for head coach Sam Burgess’s side after last week’s heavy defeat by the Rhinos.<\/p>\n
Warrington dominated the opening 20 minutes and man of the match Matty Ashton gave them a deserved lead with a well-worked try, but the first half hydration break changed the momentum of the game.<\/p>\n
Within two minutes of play restarting, the Dragons were on level terms through a try by Zac Lipowicz after an aerial kick from Toby Sexton had caused confusion in the Warrington ranks.<\/p>\n
Six minutes from the interval, the visitors took the lead through a try from Nick Cotric created by a lovely pass from Lewis Dodd, which cut out three Wolves defenders.<\/p>\n
With Lindop, who had only just returned from a long-term knee injury, going off with another serious-looking knee problem sustained in a tackle by Aispuro-Bichet which saw the Catalans centre put on report, and then Thewlis unable to come out for the second half because of a hip problem, Warrington were up against it.<\/p>\n
But their response was outstanding, with a terrific muscular finish from Albert Hopoate edging them ahead 12-10.<\/p>\n
James Bentley stretched the home side’s lead from Ashton’s inside pass with 16 minutes left, and Irwin goaled superbly from wide out to put Warrington two scores clear.<\/p>\n
Dodd pulled a try back for Catalans with 10 minutes left and Aispuro-Bichet looked like he would win it for the French side, but Irwin – moved from half-back because of the disruption – had the final say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Betfred Super League Warrington (6) 18 Tries: Ashton, Hopoate, Bentley Goals: Irwin 3 Catalans (10) 16 Tries: Lipowicz,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}