FULL TIME at Allianz Stadium and the Warriors have pulled off one of the upsets of the season with a 23-12 win over the Sydney Roosters
New Zealand Warriors 23-12
SUCCESSFUL FIELD GOAL NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
Field goal attempt by Shaun Johnson successful.
Shaun Johnson puts the field goal over to push the margin out to 11 points
New Zealand Warriors 23-12
SUCCESSFUL PENALTY GOAL NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
Penalty goal attempt by Shaun Johnson successful.
Shaun Johnson kicks his first goal of the night at his first attempt
New Zealand Warriors 22-12
PENALTY WARRIORS - Roosters take a short dropout but doesn't go 10m
New Zealand Warriors 20-12
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Scored by Manu Vatuvei. Conversion attempt by Feleti Mateo unsuccessful.
Manu Vatuvei picks up the ball and races away from the chasers after a blindside play from the Roosters and a terrible kick from Shaun Kenny-Dowall
New Zealand Warriors 20-12
A bit of confusion there, Roosters offload the ball and cleaned up by O'Donnell however referee Ashley Klein called Warriors ball and O'Donnell came up with it
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
Shaun Kenny-Dowall has just been embarrassed, had an open try line only to have the ball knocked out by Fisiiahi, repeat set for the Roosters though
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
Roosters get a repeat set after Konrad Hurrell is taken ingoal
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
Nathan Friend passes forward out of dummy half as he passed across the ruck. Roosters scrum 40m out
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
Nathan Friend passes forward out of dummy half as he passed across the ruck. Roosters scrum 40m out
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
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Scored by Glen Fisiiahi. Conversion attempt by Feleti Mateo successful.
Glen Fisiiahi runs 80m after cleaning up a James Maloney kick
New Zealand Warriors 16-12
Again the warriors have no luck with the Video Referees spinning up the red lights ruling Dane Nielsen knocked on
Sydney Roosters 12-10
VIDEO REFEREE - Checking a possible Warriors try, checking for onside and contest from a kick - Referee says NO TRY
Sydney Roosters 12-10
Roosters to get another repeat set after Ngani Laumape cleans a James Maloney kick but slides over the dead ball line
Sydney Roosters 12-10
Roosters get a repeat set after being able to push Ngani Laumape back into his own ingoal
Sydney Roosters 12-10
UNFORCED ERROR NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS
Manu Vatuvei makes an unforced error.
James Maloney throws a long pass that Manu Vatuvei almost intercepts but knocks on
Sydney Roosters 12-10
NO TRY - Video Referees Jason Robinson and Justin Morgan overrule the initial call from Chris James and rule that Glen Fisiiahi has knocked on
Sydney Roosters 12-10
VIDEO REFEREE - Checking a possible Glen Fisiiahi, checking grounding, Chris James says TRY
Sydney Roosters 12-10
UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Daniel Tupou makes an unforced error.
Daniel Tupous makes an error and gives possession back to the Warriors in good attacking position
Sydney Roosters 12-10
UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
James Maloney makes an unforced error.
James Maloney makes an error on the clean up from an offload
Sydney Roosters 12-10
Roosters get another set close to the Warriors line after Fisiiahi is ruled to have knocked on
Sydney Roosters 12-10
Play underway for the second half, Roosters have the first possession in the half
Sydney Roosters 12-10
HALF TIME at Allianz Stadium and the Roosters have come from behind to lead 12-10 at the break
Sydney Roosters 12-10
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Scored by Sonny Bill Williams. Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
SBW Scores for the Roosters after some good strength and after not even looking likely to score the Roosters will lead into the break
Sydney Roosters 12-10
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Todd Lowrie again penalised, Penalty count now 5-4 to the Warriors
New Zealand Warriors 10-6
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Scored by Anthony Minichiello. Conversion attempt by James Maloney successful.
A strong run from Sam Moa, sets up a Roosters try scored by Anthony Minichello
New Zealand Warriors 10-6
Roosters look like they get their first points only for the final pass to be ruled forward according to referee Ashley Klein
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
Roosters not being able to put any pressure on the Warriors and a poor pass lets the pressure off
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Todd Lowrie penalised for a flop, Roosters find touch 5 metres inside Warriors territory
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
Roosters charge down the ball through SBW and then gets shouldered out of the regather by Fisiiahi
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
Warriors make an error and cleaned up by Jennings who runs 70m before being caught by Shaun Johnson
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Shaun Kenny-Dowall makes an unforced error.
SKD loses the ball in a strong tackle
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
Warriors showing good pressure in defence, forces Maloney to kick on his own 40m
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
PENALTY - Roosters penalised for a strip, Penalty count now 5-2 to the Warriors
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
First quarter of the match gone and the Warriors looking good at Allianz Stadium tonight, being much more physical then the Roosters so far
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
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Scored by Ngani Laumape. Conversion attempt by Feleti Mateo unsuccessful.
Ngani Laumape gets the green lights from the video refs, a good wrap around pay gives the Warriors the try
New Zealand Warriors 10-0
VIDEO REFEREE - Checking a possible Warriors try, checking a possible obstruction play, Referee says TRY
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
Warriors get a repeat set after Shaun Johnson puts a kick in that deflects of the boot of a Roosters player and they can't clean it up
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY WARRIORS - Martin Kennedy penalised for a strip, Penalty count now 4-2 to the Warriors
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY WARRIORS - Roosters penalised for tackling the Warriors player in the air from the kick Roosters make good metres towards the end of the set
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
Anthony Minichello takes a kick easily but gets pushed back a long way by Konrad Hurrell to get the Warriors another set of six
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Warriors penalised for being too slow away from the tackle, Referees Klein and James not allowing anything too long in the ruck so far tonight
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY ROOSTERS - Warriors penalised for being too slow away from the tackle
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY WARRIORS - Roosters penalised for slowing the tackle too much
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
UNFORCED ERROR SYDNEY ROOSTERS
Mitchell Aubusson makes an unforced error.
Mitchell Aubusson is tackled as he receives the ball and drops it
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
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Scored by Elijah Taylor. Conversion attempt by Feleti Mateo successful.
Elijah Taylor scores the try through a massive gap set up by some good play from Shaun Johnson & Thomas Leuluai
New Zealand Warriors 6-0
PENALTY WARRIORS - Boyd Cordner penalised for being too slow away from the tackle
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Both sides complete their opening sets comfortably
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Play underway at Allianz Stadium, Warriors have first possession and are defending the Southern end of the ground
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The Roosters lead out by Anthony Minichello on the field now, Warriors to have first possession
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Warriors on the field at Allianz Stadium
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TEAM NEWS - the Roosters have just one change, Isaac Liu is out, replaced by Sam Moa. The Warriors have the same change as last week at the back, Glen Fisiiahi replacing Kevin Locke at fullback with Ngani Laumape coming in to fill the wing position. Suaia Matagi & Sebastine Ikahihifo drop off the bench, with Todd Lowrie returning from injury to take one of the vacated spots on the bench.
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Roosters: 1. Anthony Minichiello (c) 2. Daniel Tupou 3. Michael Jennings 4. Shaun Kenny-Dowall 5. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 6. James Maloney 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Luke O'Donnell 9. Jake Friend 10. Martin Kennedy 11. Mitchell Aubusson 12. Sonny Bill Williams 13. Boyd Cordner
Interchange: 14. Daniel Mortimer 15. Frank Paul Nuuausala 16. Aidan Guerra 18. Sam Moa
Warriors: 2. Glen Fisiiahi 18. Ngani Laumape 3. Dane Nielsen 4. Konrad Hurrell 5. Manu Vatuvei 6. Thomas Leuluai 7. Shaun Johnson 8. Sam Rapira 9. Nathan Friend 10. Russell Packer 11. Feleti Mateo 12. Simon Mannering (C) 13. Elijah Taylor
Interchange: 14. Ben Matulino 15. Jacob Lillyman 17. Dominique Peyroux 21. Todd Lowrie
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Referees & scorers:
Referee: Ashley Klein, Chris James
Touch Judges: Jeff Younis, Brenden Wood
Video Referee: Jason Robinson, Justin Morgan
SYDNEY ROOSTERS (12)
Tries: Anthony Minichiello, Sonny Bill Williams
Field Goals:
Conversions: James Maloney (2/2)
Penalty Goals:
NEW ZEALAND WARRIORS (23)
Tries: Elijah Taylor, Ngani Laumape, Glen Fisiiahi, Manu Vatuvei (4)
Field Goals: Shaun Johnson (1/1)
Conversions: Feleti Mateo (2/4)
Penalty Goals: Shaun Johnson (1/1)