Super League: Hull FC 18-28 Catalans Dragons - Les Dracs move four points clear at the top

Tom Davies has scored 4 tries successful his past 3 games for Catalans Dragons

Super League leaders Catalans Dragons extended their pb astatine the apical to 4 points with triumph implicit Hull FC.

Tom Davies enactment immoderate region betwixt the 2 sides arsenic helium worked connected to Tyrone May's walk to transverse for Catalans.

Mike McMeeken looked to person wrapped up the triumph successful benignant but his precocious effort was ruled retired for a guardant pass.

The visitors' triumph re-established their four-point cushion implicit second-placed Leigh Leopards, who had kept the unit connected with their win against Hull KR connected Friday.

Hull FC, meanwhile, stay ninth but could not repetition the heroics which saw them comfortably bushed reigning champions St Helens past clip around.

In a thrilling archetypal fractional astatine MKM Stadium, Tom Johnstone had opened the scoring during a ascendant spell for the visitors erstwhile helium successfully chased a grubber footwear into the corner.

Davies added to their tally erstwhile helium raced distant to people aft Joe Lovodua's costly knock-on but the Black and Whites swiftly responded via Chris Satae.

Les Dracs did not instrumentality agelong to re-establish themselves, however, and contempt Hull's champion efforts to assemblage the try-line, Arthur Romano managed to get the shot down.

Julian Bousquet padded the Dragons' pb to a whopping 16 points connected the verge of half-time erstwhile helium powered implicit adjacent to the posts, but determination was inactive clip for Hull's awesome fightback.

McIntosh profited from Hull's interruption upfield, with Swift turning the shot implicit to the close and allowing him to alert successful astatine the corner.

Swift past himself got disconnected the people soon aft erstwhile helium successfully intercepted a Catalans scrum to people close connected the hooter.

After an edgy commencement to the 2nd half, Davies' 2nd effort proved to beryllium the breakthrough Catalans needed to fend disconnected Hull's hopes of a turnaround.

The Catalans winger did good to latch onto May's sensational footwear towards extremity that carved unfastened the Hull defence, with the hosts incapable to find a akin effect to the 1 they had produced earlier.

Hull FC: Shaul; Swift, Scott, Tuimavave, McIntosh; Trueman, Clifford; Fash, Houghton, Sao, Lovodua, Savelio, Cator.

Interchanges: Satae, Lane, McNamara, Brown.

Catalans: McMeeken; McIlorum, Navarrete, Whitley, Seguier; Garcia, Tomkins; May, Johnstone, Romano, Keighran, Davies, Mourgue.

Interchanges: Bousquet, Da Costa, Dezaria, Ma'u.

Referee: Liam Moore.

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