Super League: Catalans Dragons 6-34 Hull KR - Robins return to winning ways

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Catalans (0) 6

Try: Navarrete Goal: Aispuro-Bichet

Hull KR (12) 34

Tries: Broadbent 2, Lewis 2, Burgess 2 Goals: Mourgue 5

Hull Kingston Rovers prima antheral Mikey Lewis inspired a comfy triumph astatine Catalans Dragons to extremity the Super League leaders' two-match losing streak.

The reigning Man of Steel scored 2 tries and made 1 of Jack Broadbent's 2 to guarantee the Robins opened up a four-point pb astatine the apical of the table, pursuing a shock location decision for second-placed Wigan Warriors earlier connected Saturday.

Lewis suffered a caput wounded successful the decision against Leeds Rhinos and past missed the reverse astatine Leigh Leopards, but helium returned to springiness signifier and strategy to Willie Peters' side.

Joe Burgess added different 2 tries and Catalans, who recovered it hard to interruption done a coagulated Rovers rearguard, could lone reply with a consolation from Romain Navarrete.

Those back-to-back defeats were not each astir the lack of Lewis, arsenic the Robins were besides sloppy defensively, conceding much points successful those 2 games than they had successful the erstwhile seven.

That had intelligibly besides been worked on, though the Dragons - who person won 1 of their past 10 games successful each competitions - were mediocre successful onslaught and contributed to their ain downfall with immoderate atrocious errors.

Tyrone May bounced retired of a anemic tackle to gaffe the shot to Broadbent for the opening try, and Peta Hiku fumbled a elemental drawback from Lewis' precise lobbed footwear arsenic the Robins laid siege to the location team's line.

Lewis showed him however to bash it arsenic helium raced connected to Sam Luckley's offload to score, and 2 video reviews denied him a archetypal fractional hat-trick. The archetypal spotted Broadbent had knocked connected earlier freeing Lewis and the 2nd noticed the stand-off had dropped the shot arsenic helium touched down.

The league leaders made definite successful the 2nd half.

Burgess raced wide from a walk by Broadbent, who grabbed his 2nd from different slick Lewis pass.

Catalans recovered immoderate alleviation arsenic Alrix da Costa's footwear was pounced connected by Navarrete, but the French broadside fell isolated successful the closing stages, with 2 wayward Cesar Rouge passes gifting tries to their opponents.

Lewis capitalised connected the first, kicking the shot up and sprinting distant to marque it 17 tries for the season, and Burgess picked up the different to circular disconnected a triumph that keeps the Robins favourites to triumph the League Leaders Shield.

Catalans: Aispuro-Bichet, Makinson, Romano, Darrelatour, C. Martin, Keary, Rouge, Satae, Da Costa, Navarrete, Pangai Jr, Garcia, Partington

Interchanges: Bousquet, Sims, Maria, Balmforth

Hull KR: Mourgue, Davies, Hiku, Broadbent, Burgess, Lewis, May, Sue, McIlorum, Waerea-Hargeaves, R. Martin, Batchelor, Headley.

Interchanges: Luckley, Whitbread, Tanginoa, Leyland

Referee: Tom Grant.