Despite the bitter Western Sydney cross-town rivalry there’s one factor each Ivan Cleary and Brad Arthur can agree on after their grand closing rematch — it was one hell of a sport.
Penrith and Parramatta traded blows earlier than a 40-metre Nathan Cleary subject aim took it to golden level for Mitchell Moses to in the end ice the sport.
Across the 82-minute conflict, there have been solely seven errors with each groups finishing at 88 per cent or above.
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It was the Eels first win of the season, however Arthur made it clear each groups ought to maintain their heads excessive.
‘High high quality sport, it may have gone both approach,” Arthur stated within the post-match press convention.
“We will see how we will respond to it next week, but it was more like our performance, over the first three weeks we have come close… at least tonight we took control of it.
“If we got beat tonight there wasn’t much we could have done.
“The effort from both teams was through the roof, both teams scrambled hard, it was just end to end and as I said, hardly any errors, 10 lost plays in the game.
“That’s massive, so both teams should be proud of themselves and we were fortunate to get the win.”
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Cleary started his press convention by saying “pretty good game wasn’t it” and stated he was “impressed” by the hassle proven by each groups.
The Panthers have now misplaced two video games by a singular level in 2023, however the skilled coach who hit the 400-game milestone on Thursday night time isn’t phased.
“Two one point losses, three really good games, I feel like we will get a lot out of that game,” Cleary stated.
“If we turn up like that and perform like that every week I think we will win a lot of games.
“It looks like a pretty brave team doing their best at the moment.”
Following Junior Paulo’s sin bin within the closing levels of the conflict, Penrith held the momentum going into the additional interval dealing with solely 12 gamers.
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However Mitch Kenny quickly adopted Paulo, hitting Waqa Blake excessive earlier than he was additionally given his marching orders.
Despite the pricey error, Cleary labelled the incident “unfortunate” and hailed his dummy-half’s defensive efforts.
“Yeah, and obviously the penalty, that changed things… look it’s just unfortunate, Mitch was just trying to make a play and everyone’s probably got their (opinions),” Cleary stated.
“But I definitely don’t think it was a sin bin, penalty maybe but it was just unfortunate, he was just getting off the line like he always does.
“He wasn’t hurt… so yeah a couple of big penalties at big moments tonight.”
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