Roosters superstar suffers serious injury in Tigers belting
The Roosters strolled to an impressive 40-6 victory over the Tigers, but an injury to a key player soured the performance.
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The Roosters have delivered an impressive 40-6 victory to down the Tigers, with all of Trent Robinson’s Origin stars backing up.
In Robinson’s 300th game as an NRL coach, he decided to back up Angus Crichton, Spencer Leniu, Connor Watson and Lindsay Collins from Game 2 as the Tricolours dismantled Benji Marshall’s men, who had two players sent to the sin bin.
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Skipper Api Koroisau was the first given their marching orders for a lifting tackle, while Adam Doueihi followed him after a hip drop tackle.
But the biggest news out of the clash came after gun centre Joey Manu suffered a suspected fractured hand in the first half, leaving the field ahead of scans on Monday morning.
The first four-pointer of the evening came from Dominic Young, flying down the wing to score before he added a second to his tally only two minutes later.
The next player to cross the white line was Terrell May, who broke the line like an outside back before diving over to score.
Luke Keary then put the finishing touches on a dominant first half, holding a 20-0 lead going into the break.
From there, Robinson’s side continued its assault, with Daniel Tupou scoring in the 48th minute before superstar fullback James Tedesco got in on the action.
He flew onto a Naufahu Whyte offload, carrying several Tigers defenders with him over the line in impressive fashion.
His four-pointer sparked a flurry of tries, with Victor Radley the next to score after a full-field break before a moment of brilliance from Keary.
After yet another break, the gun five-eighth spotted winger Tupou unmarked and found him with a pinpoint kick to reach the 40-point mark.
Young gun Fonua Pole was able to get a four-pointer on the board to round out the clash, but it was a consolation try for the Tigers.
Roosters coach Robinson celebrated his 300th game in charge with yet another win over the Tigers, with his towering wingers having a field day against their inexperienced rivals.
Tupou fired an early warning shot but had his try disallowed for obstruction, but he didn’t have to wait long with the former rep star scoring twice to equal Mark Gasnier’s record with 21 tries against the Tigers.
It looked at one stage like the Roosters would rack up 50 points as Young bagged a quick double and May powered his way over to make it three tries in six minutes in the driving rain at Allianz Stadium.
It wasn’t just Robinson celebrating a milestone game, Roosters captain James Tedesco
played in his 150th game as a Rooster and was the best player on the field.
In what was a complete performance, Tedesco finished with 215 running metres, nine tackle busts and a try.
In addition, he also set up two tries with some slick ball play to break the hearts of the club he made his NRL debut for and played 90 games with before moving to the Roosters in 2018.
Originally published as Roosters superstar suffers serious injury in Tigers belting
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