• Sydney side start superbly and ride second-half pressure
Sydney Roosters underlined their dominance as rugby league’s best club side, withstanding a spirited fightback from the Super League champions, Wigan, to continue the NRL’s dominance in the World Club Challenge. Trent Robinson’s side are now four-times winners of club rugby league’s most prestigious accolade, after a first-half Brett Morris hat-trick laid the platform for them to deny the Warriors the chance to be crowned world champions for a record-breaking fifth time.
The Roosters’ win also extends the NRL’s impressive recent record in the World Club Challenge, with this the ninth time in 11 years Australian sides have won the event. It has been suggested that some Antipodean sides do not take the meeting of the sport’s two elite champions seriously; that accusation cannot be levied at the reigning NRL champions, however.
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