{"id":308176,"date":"2023-06-15T07:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308176"},"modified":"2023-06-15T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:58:19","slug":"unfamiliar-territory-panthers-five-must-overcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=308176","title":{"rendered":"Unfamiliar territory Panthers five must overcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having won two NRL grand finals in a row, Penrith Panthers<\/a> lock Isaah Yeo – and his teammates Brian To'o, Stephen Crichton, Jarome Luai and Liam Martin – will enter unfamiliar territory\ufeff at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Losing game one in Adelaide and the loss of Latrell Mitchell<\/a>, has delivered the underdog tag to NSW as they attempt to rescue the series.<\/p>\n

Yeo admits it's not something he's used to.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Moment that 'scared' Joey as Origin nightmare returns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Smith injury rocks Aussie camp on eve of Ashes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Storm star lifts lid on 'toughest' battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

"I'm pretty fortunate that hasn't happened too often," he told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"I feel like any player, it seems to motivate them, it certainly does for this group, and it's going to need to.<\/p>\n

"I've been fortunate enough that I haven't had to do that too often but I'm looking forward to the challenge."<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Having become a master of owning the middle of the field at NRL level with Nathan Cleary, Yeo will have a new partner in Mitchell Moses after the former's injury.<\/p>\n

For the lock, "nothing really changes", but he's not afraid to admit that he needs to improve on his game one performance. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"I guess I'm fortunate enough where I've got the ability (where) I can play as that link man or I can play as that bloke who carries the ball, it's just a matter of making sure I do that better than what I was doing in game one," he said.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2023 State of Origin series LIVE and exclusive on Channel 9 and<\/strong> 9Now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

"I probably didn't touch the ball as much in that game so I'll try and get my hands on it a little bit more, just to help us get to our spots a little bit more and try and earn momentum.<\/p>\n

"I feel like we actually did that (earn momentum) pretty good in game one … so I feel like I can help in that situation, I certainly won't overthink it, just do my role as best I can and hopefully that'll help the team."<\/p>\n

\"Why<\/p>\n

\ufeffWith NSW heading to Brisbane knowing they're the enemies, Payne Haas has described it as "the biggest challenges we've faced as a team"<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yeo \ufeffadmits the weight of the occasion certainly puts it up there in his 10-game Origin career.<\/p>\n

"We've obviously dropped game ones before but we haven't been up there for that game two, so yeah I guess if you're looking at it like that it probably is (the biggest challenge)," he said.<\/p>\n

"History's against us, particularly going up there, but I feel like you've got to enjoy that, you've got to embrace that challenge. I feel like that's what State of Origin's all about, back against the wall now and you've just got to go after it."<\/p>\n

For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong> clicking here<\/strong><\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having won two NRL grand finals in a row, Penrith Panthers lock Isaah Yeo – and his teammates Brian To'o, Stephen Crichton, Jarome Luai and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308180,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308176\/revisions\/308180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}