Dominant Leigh beat Warrington to close on top six

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Betfred Super League Magic Weekend

Leigh (14) 24

Tries: Niu, Armstrong, Ipape, Hanley Goals: Cook 4

Warrington (0) 6

Tries: Sneyd Goals: Irwin

Leigh Leopards closed the spread connected the apical six successful Super League with an emphatic 24-6 triumph implicit Warrington Wolves connected the archetypal time of Magic Weekend.

Tries from Tesi Niu, David Armstrong, Edwin Ipape and Umyla Hanley helped an awesome Leigh cruise to their eighth triumph successful 10 Super League games.

Warrington, who were missing 10 players done injury, including skipper George Williams, Josh Thewlis and Toby King, were smothered by Leigh astatine Hill Dickinson Stadium, lone scoring done Marc Sneyd's converted effort with conscionable 2 minutes near successful the game.

They stay 2nd successful the standings but could driblet to 3rd depending connected the effect betwixt Wigan Warriors and St Helens successful the showpiece event's last crippled connected Sunday evening.

In beforehand of the watching Andy Burnham, the erstwhile MP for Leigh, the Leopards shifted the shot to the near and Niu skipped wrong earlier powering implicit to unfastened the scoring successful the 5th minute. Adam Cook kicked the conversion.

Warrington scrum-half Sneyd's careless goalline drop-out landed retired connected the afloat soon after, allowing Cook to adhd a elemental 2 much points bang successful beforehand of the sticks with the penalty.

A fantastic offload from Hanley past acceptable Armstrong successful the wide adjacent halfway, and the Australian raced past other full-back Ewan Irwin to dive implicit successful the close country - earlier Cook was past timed retired successful attempting to adhd to the Leopards' aboriginal 12-point cushion.

After a one-sided opening quarter, successful which Warrington struggled to summation immoderate benignant of territory, they were penalised for an incorrect play of the shot and Cook added different extremity from adjacent scope via the upright.

Warrington had a accidental to get connected the committee precocious connected successful the archetypal fractional pursuing large enactment from 18-year-old Irwin, but helium landed conscionable abbreviated of the whitewash erstwhile attempting to crushed the ball.

After a misplaced attacking footwear from Sneyd presented the shot backmost to Leigh aboriginal successful the 2nd half, the Leopards were capable to summation ground, and influential hooker Ipape scored down the near borderline erstwhile the shot had been recycled.

Hopes of an improbable Warrington comeback were efficaciously ended erstwhile Sam Powell was sent to the sin-bin aft a tackle connected Niu.

Ipape was past successful the close spot to prime up a escaped shot and dash 50 metres, but Lam's footwear to Armstrong connected the near helping was overhit, different the Australian would person astir surely had a 2nd try.

Hanley, who had a terrific lucifer astatine centre for Leigh, broke the lines of the Warrington defence portion they were inactive down to 12 men and dived implicit underneath the sticks to extremity the lucifer arsenic a contention with conscionable implicit 20 minutes remaining.

Warrington scored a consolation effort erstwhile Sneyd intercepted a wayward walk from Gareth O'Brien to contention wide and dot down nether the sticks, with his effort easy converted by Irwin.

'We executed the program truly well' - reaction

Leigh Leopards brag Adrian Lam told BBC Radio Manchester:

"Very blessed with the result, obviously, but I thought the mode that we started - putting the crippled to furniture truly aboriginal - I thought we had a batch of intent astir america truthful I was truly pleased.

"I felt the program we had to play them, we executed that truly well. I thought Lachlan Lam had his champion crippled of the play and I thought they each played truly well.

"We needed him arsenic a nine to propulsion disconnected a fewer of those moments today. He hasn't been playing astatine his best, and we've had conversations astir that, truthful we needed him to people a effort to get that assurance backmost and determination was immoderate denotation helium was getting backmost to wherever helium needs to be"

"We've been beaten by Warrington doubly this year, erstwhile successful the [Challenge] Cup, truthful we needed to get 1 back".

Warrington Wolves caput manager Sam Burgess told BBC Radio Merseyside:

"I'm disappointed. I thought we would springiness a amended show today, but they made it precise hard from the commencement of the game.

"I don't similar losing. The show was disconnected today. I'm not relaxed astir that. We had a bully capable squad retired determination to triumph if we performed."

Leigh: Armstrong; Senior, Niu, Hanley, Hodgson; Cook, Lam; Ofahengaue, Horne, Mulhern, Halton, Trout, Liu.

Interchanges: Brogan, Davis, O'Brien, Ipape.

Warrington: Irwin; Webster, Smith, Hopoate, Ashton; Hayes, Sneyd; Byrne, Walker, Harrison, Bentley, Tanginoa, Currie.

Interchanges: Powell, Thomas, Wood, Holroyd.

Sin-bin: Powell (51 mins).

Referee: Liam Moore.

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