Huddersfield dominated the opening stages and wing Halsall broke the deadlock, running in unopposed in the left corner to finish off a slick move before Brendan Hands’ try pulled Toulouse level.<\/p>\n
Influential half-back Jake Shorrocks limped off for the home side with a worrying-looking injury and, soon after, the Giants restored their advantage through Halsall’s second, an acrobatic finish in the corner.<\/p>\n
Joe Greenwood extended the visitors’ advantage, receiving a short ball from Harry Rushton to power over from close range, before Connor Wrench burst through on the attacking right edge for Huddersfield’s fourth try before half-time.<\/p>\n
The Giants had to play half of the second period with 12 men, firstly after Tristan Powell was shown a yellow card, and then because of Taane Milne’s professional foul 16 minutes later, but they saw out the match comfortably and added to the scoreline through a George Flanagan penalty kick.<\/p>\n
Toulouse’s top try-scorer this season Mathieu Jussaume pulled a try back late on but it proved to be just a consolation as Flanagan slotted a second penalty kick with 30 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
Toulouse: Polselli; Laguerre, Tropis, Jussaume, Ulberg; Lacans, Shorrocks; Butler, Hands, Roumanos, O’Kane, Grossemy, Cator.<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Marion, Chan, Belmas, Toleafoa.<\/p>\n
Huddersfield: Flanagan; Halsall, Wrench, Gagai, Milne; Clune, Lolohea; Rogers, Woolford, King, Hewitt, Dunford, Rushton.<\/p>\n
Interchanges: Powell, Greenwood, Cozza, Geyer.<\/p>\n
Sin-bin: Powell (48 mins), Milne (64 mins).<\/p>\n
Referee: Ryan Cox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield dominated the opening stages and wing Halsall broke the deadlock, running in unopposed in the left corner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739304","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\/739304","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=739304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}