Super League: Leigh stun Wigan in comeback win as Warrington edge scrappy contest with Salford | Rugby League News

The Papua Nouvelle-Guinée Edwin Ipape marked the crucial test while Leigh came from behind to stun the champions of the Super League Wigan 18-8 Friday evening.

Jake Wardle’s first try and two goals from Adam Keighran put visitors 8-0 in front with 30 minutes to play, but for the second time in three meetings this season, the leopards have ruled with the last 18 points to win the victory.

The Tesi Niu center started the response before the competitor of the steel man, Ipape finished a superb team test.

And with 18 seconds, the remaining propeller, Owen Trout, crowned a memorable week, which included a first call in England, with the third touch of Leigh, the record of 10,375, a record crowd of Leigh Sports Village Super League.

Gareth O’Brien converted the three tests while the side of Adrian Lam jumped Leeds in third place.

Meanwhile, the Fourth Wigan defeat of the campaign leaves them still four points behind the leaders and winners of the Challenge Hull Kr Cup.

Visitors had taken the perfect start after five minutes when Wardle entered two defenders to tackle, while the second row of Leopards, Frankie Halton, was excluded by video referee Chris Kendall before the sprint of Josh Charnley for Glory was arrested by Jai Field.

The 36th minute penalty of Keighran brought Wigan to their only other points from a breathtaking first period, and with the rain falling at the beginning of the second half, 8-0 seemed a useful advantage.

However, 10 minutes after restarting, Leigh retaliated. IPape and Lam combined and niu jumping to Charnley before standing up on himself.

And it was not a surprise when Leigh won a victory lead 12 minutes from the time. A superb manipulation movement finally saw Keanan Brand and Umyla Hanley Link for iPape to mark jubilant between messages, while Trout marked a final test for the home team.

Warrington Play-Off hopes to live with a disjointed victory over Salford

Warrington Keep their hopes of the Super League qualifiers, but they were made to eliminate a 24-12 victory against the boys in the basement Salford.

Matt Dufty’s first test seemed to suggest that Salford, beaten 58-0 by St Helens on Sunday, was hiding for another hiding place, but after Ethan Ryan’s test, two penalties of Chris Hankinson gave them an 8-6 shock.

James Harrison went to put Warrington back in mind before half-time, but Hankinson again kicked a well improved Salford level before Josh Thewlis marks the decisive test just after the hour and Stefan Ratchford made sure of his former club.

Jake Thewlis got closer to Warrington of the brand four minutes later, not making the ball in the area, but there was no argument three minutes later because a neat inverted pass from George Williams left Dufty with time and space to pass.

A boosting Salford responded well, helped by a number of visitors to treatment errors. Salford had already left three good opportunities before Josh Thewlis lost the ball on his own territory and the hosts quickly moved just for Ryan to get a path in the 23 -minute area.

Hankinson missed the conversion but, while Wolves’ errors accumulated, penalties allowed him to kick Salford in an advance of 8-6 nine minutes before the break.

Their advantage would only last three minutes while Warrington again found a way to open the center of the Salford line, with a quick discharge from Ben Currie leaving Harrison with the easy task of being limited in space.

The former man of Salford, Sam Stone, hooked tirelessly by fans of the house after his acrimonious departure earlier in the year, was the next warrington to concede a penalty at the start of the second half, allowing Hankinson to reduce the deficit to two.

Dufty was arrested a few centimeters from the line while Warrington was trying to take advantage of the gap that remains with the Salford skipper, Ryan Brierley, the wounded and the tensions started to increase while scratches broke out between players more than once.

Salford accumulated on pressure and he said that Hankinson had leveled him with another penalty and that the Wolves frustration continued while another poor pass of Williams wasted a score opportunity.

But they had changed the momentum of the game and had it reached on the time, with Josh Thewlis plunging on the bouncing kick of Dufty to mark in the area, although Sneyd could not do the difficult conversion.

Salford thought they had a quick response when Esan Marsters jumped on an abandoned bullet on Jake Thewlis to touch, but referee Liam Rush had spotted a tackle in the air of Ryan.

Sneyd then launched a penalty at the head of Pad Warrington and Salford’s luck at victory disappeared when Ratchford took advantage of the drop in March late.

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