Impressive Leigh Secure Rare Victory At Saints

Betfred Super League

St Helens (0) 4

Try: Robertson

Leigh (4) 16

Tries: Ofahengaue 2 Goals: O'Brien 4

Prop Joe Ofahengaue scored some Leigh Leopards tries arsenic his broadside pulled disconnected their first triumph astatine St Helens since 1982 and kept up nan unit connected Super League's apical two.

Ofahengaue crossed midway done nan 2nd half to supply nan Leopards pinch immoderate breathing abstraction aft 2 Gareth O'Brien penalties had put them 4-0 up astatine nan break.

Saints, who went into nan crippled connected nan backmost of 5 consecutive victories, enjoyed plentifulness of possession but could not break down Leigh's gritty defence.

Ofahengaue capitalised to drawback a 2nd effort aft Kyle Feldt spilled Lachlan Lam's footwear and, though Harry Robertson belatedly put Saints connected nan scoresheet, it was excessively precocious to forestall nan Leopards moving to wrong a constituent of second-placed Wigan.

More to follow.

St Helens: Sailor, Feldt, Robertson, Whitley, Dagnall, Lomax, Mbye, Walmsley, Wingfield, Delaney, Sironen, Lees, Knowles.

Interchanges: Bennison, Paasi, Whitby, Cowen

Leigh: Hodgson, Brand, Niu, Hanley, Charnley, O'Brien, Lam, Trout, Ipape, Ofahengaue, Halton, Hughes, Liu.

Interchanges: McNamara, Tuitavake, Davis, Badrock.

Referee: Chris Kendall.