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Fulltime: Eels 15 def Raiders 12

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By Nick Campton

Parramatta hang on for the win. Canberra hit rock bottom.

78’ Last Raider chance falls short

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By Nick Campton

Pattie gets a penalty out of Parta for not being square. Raiders have a chance to win.

Canberra put on a shift but Laurie goes for a miracle pass for Savage that goes over the sideline.

Eels will hold on.

77’ Crucial raider error

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By Nick Campton

Canberra look to offload late in the set and Stuart puts down an easy pass from Weekes. With time running short that could be it for Canberra.

Savage takes a good kick in-goal to save them though.

70’ Raiders go in again

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By Nick Campton

Papalii loses it on the Parranatta 40 and Canberra have a chance to force a big finish.

Pattie forces a drop out with a nice kick.

Laurie throws a dummy, he cuts through and scores!

The Raiders are alive, somehow. Sanders converts and its 15-12!

62’ Raiders score at last

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By Nick Campton

After almost ten minutes of set for set football the Raiders go left through Weekes, he gets it out to Stuart who has Timoko in support and he scores.

A try, at last, for the Raiders. Sanders converts and it’s 15-6, can Canberra make a game of it?

51’ Eels get another

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By Nick Campton

An offside penalty against Sanders puts Parramatta on the attack.

Papalii goes short to Kautoga and he’s over. The Eels are well in control now.

Da Solva converts and it’s 15-0 Eels.

47’ Raiders bungle it again

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By Nick Campton

Canberra make a break through the middle, next play Sanders goes right and his pass is intercepted by Addo-Carr, Tapine drags him down and the winger is penalised for lashing out with the feet.

Three tackles later Canberra lose the ball. They are awful.

46’ Eels drop it

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By Nick Campton

Russell flies and hits Kris with a super shot that forces an error. Parra go on the attack but Tuivaiti knocks it on after a cross play to give Canberra some relief.

And away we go

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By Nick Campton

Eels kick us off and we’re halfway home.

Match report: Trindall tricks earn stirring Cronulla win

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By Nick Campton

Cronulla have blown the NRL's top-four race wide open with a courageous and epic 10-8 victory over the high-flying Warriors in Auckland.

A miracle defensive play from fullback Will Kennedy allowed in-form playmaker Braydon Trindall to slot the Sharks' match-winning two-point field goal two minutes from fulltime on Saturday night.

Warriors centre Adam Pompey had the chance to send the match into golden point, but pushed a last-second penalty attempt wide to the despair of home fans at Go Media Stadium.

Seconds before Trindall's sealer, Kennedy rushed desperately out of the line to charge down a Te Maire Martin field-goal attempt to put the Warriors in front in the lowest-scoring match of the season.

Instead, Kennedy pulled off an Ashes-like slips catch to steal possession in one of the plays of the season.

The upshot was Cronulla bursting from the pack to surge from eighth on the ladder to fifth, above the Sydney Roosters and behind only the Dolphins and Manly on points differential.

Even without State of Origin reps Addin Fonua-Blake and injured stars Nicho Hynes and Blues hooker Brayden Bailey, the Sharks dug deep to inflict only the second defeat of the season on the second-placed Warriors.

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Halftime: Eels 9 lead Raiders 0

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By Nick Campton

Volkman bangs over a field goal as the siren sounds and Parramatta take an unusual lead into halftime.

38’ Raiders attack can’t file a shot

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By Nick Campton

Taulagi gets Horsburgh in a crusher to get the Raiders out of their own end. The Raiders are coming up on two hours without scoring a point, can they crack them here?

Weekes forces a drop out with a grubber that Iongi cleans up.

And they get another set following an error from Kelly.

Sanders goes for an early kick but Savage doesn’t know it’s coming and the ball trickles dead.

32’ Raiders can’t close the chance

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By Nick Campton

Da Silva loses the ball inside his own 20 and the Raiders are on the attack again.

Canberra swing it right, Timoko might have put Stuart over!

But he lost it as he went to put it down. Eels ball.

27’ Eels awards controversial try

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By Nick Campton

Taualagi hits a hole off Papalii and reaches out to score, it looks like he lost it but the referee awards a try.

Bunker will have a look at this - to me it looks like his hands were coming away from it but the referee has given it!

An absolutely shocking decision! Volkman misses the kick and it’s 8-0 Eels.

24’ Sanders sent to the sin bin

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By Nick Campton

Kelly kicks for himself on the last, Weekes puts it dead but the Eels are looking for a professional foul.

Sanders did take him out after the kick, I think he’ll go here - and the referee agrees.

Canberra have looked awful all night and they keep getting worse.

23’ Eels can’t add another

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By Nick Campton

Stuart loses the ball after a bomb and the Eels are on the attack in the 20.

Volkman forces a drop out with a nice grubber. But when he goes for the same on the next set Weekes cleans it up and Canberra hang on.

18’ Raiders attack fails again

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By Nick Campton

Kautoga loses the ball in the tackle and Canberra have another chance.

Laurie forces a drop out with a good kick. But the Eels go short and it trickles over the sideline. Parra hold the line for the third time.

15’ Raiders denied again

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By Nick Campton

An error from Williams gives Canberra a chance to reply. A set restart helps them build pressure.

But Snaders goes for a pressure pass to Timoko and he knocks it on. Eels hold their line.