{"id":401626,"date":"2024-06-10T08:19:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=401626"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:04:36","slug":"origin-star-stuns-legends-in-special-bulldogs-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=401626","title":{"rendered":"Origin star stuns legends in 'special' Bulldogs victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Crichton<\/a> has shown his class yet again, stunning experts with a brilliant flick pass during the Bulldogs<\/a>' win over the Eels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffWith the Eels leading 6-4 18 minutes into the first half<\/a>, Crichton went down the right side and set up his winger Blake Wilson with an insane flick pass.<\/p>\n

The Origin centre's effort left league great Greg Alexander stunned. \ufeff<\/p>\n

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"It doesn't get much better than that," he said on Fox League. \ufeff<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"He delivers a brilliant flick pass to Blake Wilson.<\/p>\n

"That is brilliant – it doesn't get any better and Blake Wilson still had a fair bit to do. What a special try from the Dogs."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Fellow legend Cooper Cronk was also left in awe as the Bulldogs went up 10-6. \ufeff<\/p>\n

"The ability at speed to flick the pass and set up your outside man, that is a special play from Stephen Crichton and he was absolutely pumped up too when Wilson scored," he said.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2024 NRL premiership live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier, tries for both sides came from \ufeffBlaize Talagi and Crichton himself.<\/p>\n

The Eels managed to wrestle back the lead before half-time with Will Penisini scoring to make it 12-10, before extending their lead after the break.<\/p>\n

But there was still plenty of drama to unfold, with a late try to Blake Wilson giving the Dogs a massive 22-18 win in\ufeff front of a jam-packed Accor Stadium. <\/p>\n

There was also concern for the Bulldogs with Josh Curran stretchered off in the first half after a heavy collision before the break, before Jacob Preston suffered a suspected broken leg late in the second half. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Crichton has shown his class yet again, stunning experts with a brilliant flick pass during the Bulldogs' win over the Eels. \ufeffWith the Eels […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401628,"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\/401626"}],"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=401626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401629,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401626\/revisions\/401629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}