Stay
Latrell Mitchell has helped South Sydney flip the script on Penrith, inspiring the Rabbitohs to come back from behind and beat their premiership rivals 20-18 at Accor Stadium.
In an exhilarating end, Souths trailed 18-10 with six minutes to go earlier than Mitchell helped breathe life again into the Bunnies with a strive off a Lachlan Ilias kick.
The Rabbitohs fullback was denied moments later when Nathan Cleary dragged him down from behind after a line break.
However Souths had been nonetheless in a position to present a last-gasp effort to win the sport when Mitchell supplied house on the left edge, Alex Johnston offloaded and Cody Walker put Isaiah Tass over.
The win marked solely the Rabbitohs’ second over Penrith of their previous 12 matches, throughout a run that has typically seen the Panthers come from behind to win matches.
For components of Thursday night time’s conflict it appeared it was going to be the identical outdated story once more for South Sydney.
Arch nemesis Stephen Crichton scored all 18 of Penrith’s factors, together with tries within the 66th and 71st minutes to take them from 10-Eight right down to 18-10 up.
There had even been a Crichton intercept-of-sorts off Walker, when he latched onto a kick from the five-eighth and went down subject to place the Panthers on the assault for the back-to-back tries.
However in contrast to within the 2021 grand remaining when Crichton’s arms had proved decisive, it will not be the distinction.
As a substitute, the game-breaker was Mitchell.
The Souths celebrity completed the match with 14 deal with busts and one line break, after enjoying a job in all 4 of the Rabbitohs’ tries.
He acquired them on the entrance foot for his or her first when he placed on a flick move for Alex Johnston, earlier than he bounded out of dummy-half on the subsequent play.
He had his arms on the ball once more later within the set, earlier than Damien Cook dinner darted over from dummy-half.
Then when the house aspect trailed 8-6 early within the second half, Mitchell did all of it himself to place the Bunnies again within the lead when he beat three Panthers to attain after a 10-metre scrum.
That each one got here earlier than his heroics within the remaining six minutes, once more emphasizing why he is without doubt one of the most necessary gamers at South Sydney this century.
Finally it was sufficient to cancel out Crichton’s brilliance for Penrith and Jarome Luai’s menace in assault, handing the two-time defending premiers their third lack of the season and retaining themselves within the high 4.
-AAP
