Moses slots the field goal from right in front
Kenny binned for his high shot, 12 on 12 now
PENALTY EELS - high contact
Eels kick off golden point
First play after finding touch, 12 seconds left on the clock and Cleary nails a 2 point field goal to leave the scores and take us into golden point
Paulo sin binned for his high shot, 30 seconds left
PENALTY PANTHERS - High tackle. Very high. Eels challenge and obviously fail.
Brown runs it on the last and just take the tackle, 8m from the Panthers line. Last set on the game....
SCRUM EELS - Edwards with a flick pass back to Tago, who wasn't paying attention and he drops the ball, 25m from his own line
Gutherson with an amazing take under that bomb from Cleary, with two Panthers players right on top of him
Cleary converts
Cleary on the list dishes a short ball to the lead runner Hosking who pushes through the line and scores under the posts.
PENALTY PANTHERS - Turuva is hit a little high on his kick return. Panthers find touch on halfway
Panthers defence rushing up now
JFH grubbers for himself, regathers and is tackled, but that's beside the point. He should get 8 points for that great play, maybe even 9
Moses adds another two
PENALTY EELS - Leota with a late challenge on Moses
Sivo staying down after that play the ball. He's hobbling back into the line now
Moses keeps kicking high to Turuva and Turuva keeps catching them
Moses converts
Parramatta goes right with players standing in tackles and getting passes away before finally debutant Handsgets the ball in space and he races 30m to score a good team try.
Challenge is successful. Eels get a 20m tap and a 7 tackle set
Turuva gets a ball but has no space, so it puts up a bomb and in the contest to catch the ball. the ref rules that Gutherson lost the ball and it went dead in goal. Eels are challenging the decision.
PENALTY EELS - High contact. Eels find touch 12m shy of halfway
Panthers defence is starting to click
Panthers with a Wests Tigers play, as in uncoordinated, sloppy and results in a turnover 15m from the opponents line.
Cleary levels the scores with a penalty goal at halftime
PENALTY PANTHERS - high contact
Set restart Panthers, 20m from Eels line
PENALTY PANTHERS - Illegal strip. Panthers move into the Eels half now
Panthers starting to get some second phase play going now
Cleary converts
Yeo breaks through the line, offloads to Sorenson who then turns the ball back inside to Edwards who races 30m to score under the posts
Moses with a shallow kick over the Panthers line is taken nicely by Edwards and he again gets into the field of play.
The last 10 mins of this game has largely been played inside the Panthers half
A third Moses grubber into the Panthers ingoal, this time Edwards cleans up and gets back into the field of play
Moses kicks the penalty goal
PENALTY EELS - Cleary attempts a short restart and it doesn't travel 10m
Another great Moses grubber, this time very nearly leads to a try for Simonsson, but Tago just beats him and taps the ball dead. Panthers drop out
Eels get a repeat set courtesy of a deft Moses grubber that traps Edwards in his own ingoal
SCRUM EELS - Kenny tries to pass as he's tackled and he throws it forward on the halfway line
Gutherson knocks on in the contest to catch a bomb that Moses put up deep inside the Panthers half.
SCRUM EELS - Luai drops it this time
SCRUM PANTHERS - Waqa Blake with a knock on. Nothing forced it, he just forgot to hold the ball
PENALTY EELS - late in the set and the Eels were going nowhere. Panthers give them a reprieve
lovely set after points by the Eels, turning Edwards around with a corner kick. Making the Panthers work it back from near their own goal line
Moses converts
Eels shift left to Brown who grubbers behind the Panthers line and Cartwright regathers to score near the posts
Yeo veeeeeeeeeeeeery nearly gets away from Hodgson's tackle
The feeling has arrived in the tackles
Sivo takes a high kick comfortably, both kickers trying to test the opposing backs.
great kick downtown by Cleary, finds space and turns Gutherson around
A poor last tackle pass out the back from Dylan Brown goes to ground and it's a sixth-tackle handover.
Penrith appear to be struggling to make metres compared to the Eels. Visitors on the back foot early. Klein blows a PENALTY for the Eels near halfway and they tap and run, a new set beginning inside the Penrith 30m now.
Big metres from the Eels in their second set of the evening, but a last tackle high-ball is well fielded by Dylan Edwards.
Both sides get through their opening sets comfortably.
GAME ON. Eels first use, running left to right on your device's screen.
Gutherson leads out the Parramatta Eels, with Mitch Moses not far behind following news he's re-signed at the club.
Penrith trot out to resounding boos at Commbank, wearing their pink away jersey.
Some quick match stats: Eels have won 11 of their last 14 games when they’ve had a 7 day turnaround, the Panthers have won 14 of their last 16 games played on Thursday night; and Penrith's last loss after a gap of 11 days or more since their last game, was back in 2018. They’ve had 7 wins and a draw since.
Game time in about ten minutes. One change across the lineups with Liam Martin OUT for Penrith, Zac Hosking to start second row.
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Ashley Klein
Touch Judges: Liam Kennedy, Dave Munro
Video Referee: Adam Gee
PARRAMATTA EELS (17)
Tries: Bryce Cartwright, Brendan Hands
Field Goals: Mitchell Moses (1/1)
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Mitchell Moses (2/2)
Penalty Goals: Mitchell Moses (2/2)
PENRITH PANTHERS (16)
Tries: Dylan Edwards, Zac Hosking
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals: Nathan Cleary (1/1)
Conversions: Nathan Cleary (2/2)
Penalty Goals: Nathan Cleary (1/1)