Netball Super League: Can ‘fearless’ Manchester Thunder shock Loughborough Lightning in Preliminary Final? | Netball News
Manchester Thunder will seek to shock loughborough lightning and to reserve their place in the grand final when they go to the preliminary final, Live on Sky Sports on Sunday.
They will compete for the chance to take London Pulse, who has reserved his place in the grand final of the Netball Super League with an exciting victory of 50-49 on lightning.
Pulse retaliated with a deficit of six goals in the fourth quarter to seal the victory in an absorbent dam confrontation.
Olivia Tchine was the hero while she was holding her nerve to deliver the goods in the last five minutes to turn the game on her head and send her side to the O2 on July 6.
Meanwhile, Manchester Thunder softened to a 79-49 victory against London Mavericks to ensure a meeting with Lightning semi-finalists in the preliminary final this weekend.
Lightning, champions in 2023 and 2024, finished second in the Super League table behind London Pulse after winning 10 of his 14 games and will seek to claim their place in the grand final when they hunt what would be a three historic peat.
However, they will have a thunderous confident in their own way, which they beat in the grand final of 2024 to be crowned champion again.
“I think Karen [Greig, Manchester Thunder head coach] I had to make a very big wave this season. It is not the easiest for her, but they were a chic side, whatever the injuries they have had all season, “said the former head coach of Birmingham Panthers, Jo Trip Sky Sports News.
“To see them in a way come to life for this purpose, with their return players, do not surprise me at all. I think these players, she has songed them well, gave them court time – as she owes – to build them towards the next and maybe two games.”
For the trip, the competition will be a case of which offers the best tactics of the day with the two parties so uniformly assorted.
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Protruded while London Pulse faced
“I think that the two teams have been in the final for a very long time. I have not known how many years it has been since Lughborough missed these first two, but it is probably the most difficult race insofar as they could have had to enter these finals,” she added.
“I think that if Loughborough can attack the game, they will be very strong in this and they feed Sammy [Wallace-Joseph] early and quickly.
“I think Josie [Huckle] Has an exceptional season now. I think she is at the rear of several great years as a very, very talented goalkeeper.
“I really think they are really well matched. I think now that thunder has both paige [Reed] and laws [Pearson] Back, you could see him last week, just that confidence that it gave them. They were intrepid in each combination.
“I think it will come down to tactics, which scouts the best and what plans they have against each other.”
So who will win? Well, if it’s thunder, they will then go to the end, according to trip.
“It’s difficult. As my heart means lightning, but I think thunder comes just at the end of the season,” she said.
“I think if they are going through this next match, they will win it.”
Look at the preliminary final live on Sky Sports Action from 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 29.
