Since dropping to Warrington in successive weeks in April in Super League and the Challenge Cup, the Leopards had received 10 out of 12 video games, together with victory over the Wire at Magic Weekend three weeks in the past they usually had been out of the traps strongly.
Lam’s go discovered Armstrong hitting the road nicely from full-again as he bought a dummy and located a niche to the tryline.
The scrum-half was then the recipient of high quality play, supporting Umyla Hanley after he had damaged by the defence to run underneath the posts.
The Wolves received themselves on the scoreboard due to the would possibly of Sipley as three defenders couldn’t preserve out the Niue prop at shut vary.
However, Leigh made it a two-rating sport once more proper on half-time as Senior completed off within the left nook after extra good work within the line from the half-backs.
The second interval noticed no quarter given and either side misplaced a participant to the sin-bin within the early phases. Super League’s file strive scorer Josh Charnley was penalised for head contact on Toby King, whereas Warrington scrum-half Leon Hayes joined him for a harmful sort out on Owen Trout.
And with feelings operating excessive, Ofahengaue profited as sheer brute drive noticed him drive his means over.
Moments later, the competition was settled as Hanley scored a strive that legendary father Ellery would have been pleased with as a mix of energy, footwork and dealing with expertise took him previous a clutch of defenders in a small house.
With their defence relishing the battle, it was a great tune-up for the go to of neighbours Wigan Warriors on Friday (20:00).
Hopoate’s strive got here too late on this one to make any distinction for Warrington they usually should regroup forward of their journey to Castleford Tigers the next day to regain momentum within the play-off battle.
Leigh Leopards head coach Adrian Lam mentioned:
“I’m happy. Just relieved in a sense, especially second half where we had a few injuries, it could have been really tight – they had the majority of the ball – but we defended really well at times and the way we hung in there as a group was inspirational.
“The second half, we needed to play inside [ourselves], I noticed the boys had been gassed and with solely two subs, it was going to be a troublesome 40 minutes however the gamers had been unbelievably good.
“We were really physical. They were fired up at the start of the game but once it settled down, some of our rugby was as good as we’ve played this season.”
Warrington Wolves head coach Sam Burgess advised Sky Sports:
“It is one of those games. I thought the scoreline probably didn’t reflect the game or how tight the game was.
“In that second half I assumed we began with nice spirit. We simply could not get any factors.”
Leigh: Armstrong; Senior, Hughes, Hanley, Charnley; Cook, Lam; Ofahengaue, Horne, Liu, Halton, Trout, Brogan.
Interchanges: Vaalepu, Davis, Brown, Ipape.
Sin-bin: Charnley (49)
Warrington: Webster; Hopoate, Smith, King, Ashton; Irwin, Hayes; Byrne, Walker, Thomas, Holroyd, Harrison, Currie.
Interchanges: Sipley, Crowther, Philbin, Bentley.
Sin-bin: Hayes (52)
Referee: Marcus Griffiths.
