Hull 36 – 18 Castleford

Hull FC heaped the strain on relegation-threatened Castleford with a convincing 36-18 house win.

A 5-strive blitz within the second half moved Hull to inside two factors of the Super League play-off locations, whereas Castleford are simply as near the drop zone after a 3rd successive defeat.

Story of the sport

Hull, on the again of a derby victory towards Hull KR final week, made a powerful begin as Adam Swift opened the scoring inside seven minutes when Davy Litten knocked again a Jake Clifford kick.

However, the lead lasted solely 5 minutes as Castleford responded by way of Elliot Wallis, who had already been denied a strive by an amazing Litten sort out however was too simply allowed to attain within the nook this time.

The Tigers misplaced Riley Dean to a head damage and conceded nearly instantly after his withdrawal on the 20-minute mark, as Carlos Tuimavave – who himself later got here off injured – ran onto a Jake Trueman cross and scampered to the road.

Clifford did not convert both Hull strive so the hosts solely led 8-6, and that rating was quickly stage as Gareth Widdop added a penalty to his earlier conversion when Hull have been caught offside.

Castleford’s Jacob Miller had a drop-purpose try within the remaining seconds of the half blocked by Brad Dwyer, making certain it will stay 8-8 on the break.

Hull got here to life at the beginning of the second half with again-to-again tries, the primary from Chris Satae charging onto a Brad Fash cross and stretching to floor on the road.

Straight from the restart, Satae bought the ball once more and burst by way of quite a few Castleford challenges earlier than discovering Swift to finish an exhilarating breakaway strive.

Liam Sutcliffe took over kicking duties and transformed each tries for a 12-level Hull lead, which was halved when Joe Westerman was put by way of the center of the house defence and Jack Broadbent supported the run to attain.

Adam Swift touches down for one in every of his two tries for Hull towards Castleford

But Broadbent knocked on from the following restart and Litten eased over, earlier than Cameron Scott benefitted from extra poor Castleford defending to make it 30-14.

Scott scored for a second time earlier than the end, brightly ducking beneath tackles, whereas Bureta Faraimo scored the ultimate strive for the crushed Tigers.

What they mentioned

Hull FC head coach Tony Smith:

“Big Chris (Satae) was fantastic with the way he ran the ball and the work that he did for us. At times he was almost unstoppable. He certainly lifted us.

“Brad Dwyer did too, it was one other actually energetic efficiency and he could nicely have turned the sport on its head a bit with that power he injected into the match.

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Castleford head coach Andy Last:

“It’s really frustrating. We felt in a good space going into half-time. There were a couple of things we just needed to touch on at half-time but we didn’t go out and execute what we spoke about, like tidying up our ball control.

“The Satae barge-over strive could be very doubtful, whether or not he bought it down. But now we have to indicate extra resilience. There’s a bit of little bit of negativity and a sense that every part is towards us. We should be higher than that.”

What’s subsequent?

Hull FC are subsequent in motion towards Huddersfield Giants on the John Smith’s Stadium within the Super League on Thursday July 27, a conflict you’ll be able to watch dwell on Sky Sports from 8pm, whereas Castleford Tigers even have every week off earlier than returning to Super League motion at Hull Kingston Rovers on Friday July 28 (8pm).