Friday second NRL Round 20 match is between Canterbury Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels with the opening kick to commence at 7:35pm local time. The game is to be played at ANZ Stadium which see’s home team Canterbury Bulldogs hold favouritism in the market. View our NRL live scores, odds and results for the game between Canterbury Bulldogs and Parramatta Eels.
WHERE AND WHEN: ANZ Stadium, 26th July, 7:35pm
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Opening odds comparison:
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| Canterbury Bulldogs | 1.08 | 1.10 | 1.05 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.09 |
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Parramatta Eels
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8.00 | 7.25 | 11.00 | 7.25 | 8.00 | 8.00 |
Preview:
The Bulldogs take on the Eels in the second Friday night match, 7.35pm at ANZ Stadium. Canterbury will be big favourites to win this one, with Parramatta playing some pretty ordinary footy at the moment. After last round, the Eels have had their worst losing run in 18 years, a stat which illustrates just how horrific 2013 has been for them. In contrast, the Bulldogs are currently sitting in sixth spot and will be keen to cement their place in the finals in the lead up to September. The only thing the Eels have left to play for is trying to avoid back-to-back wooden spoons.
Teams:
Canterbury Bulldogs:
1 Ben Barba
2 Mitch Brown
3 Josh Morris
4 Krisnan Inu
5 Sam Perrett
6 Josh Reynolds
7 Trent Hodkinson
8 Aiden Tolman
9 Michael Ennis (c)
10 James Graham
11 Frank Pritchard
12 Tony Williams
13 Greg Eastwood
Interchange
14 Dene Halatau
15 Josh Jackson
16 Sam Kasiano
17 Dale Finucane
18 Tim Browne
Coach: Des Hasler
Parramatta Eels:
1 Jake Mullaney
2 Ken Sio
3 Ryan Morgan
4 Willie Tonga
5 Semi Radradra
6 Ben Roberts
7 Luke Kelly
8 Tim Mannah (c)
9 Matt Keating
10 Fuifui Moimoi
11 Reni Maitua
12 Daniel Harrison
13 Darcy Lussick
Interchange
14 Mitchell Allgood
15 Peni Terepo
16 Joseph Paulo
17 Junior Paulo
Coach: Ricky Stuart
Inu ready to fire after suspension dramas
Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu has no complaints about his two enforced spells on the sidelines this year but admits it’s been a season of frustration.
Inu was slugged with a five-game ban for a sickening spear tackle that saw South Sydney fullback Greg Inglis dumped on his head in the Rabbitohs’ 17-12 win on Good Friday.
His return to action against Newcastle in May also landed the mercurial Inu in hot water as he was charged with making unnecessary leg pressure on Knights winger James McManus and handed another two-week suspension.
The 25-year-old maintains he’s not a spiteful or malicious player and the incidents were accidental, but concedes they were not a good look.
“I was just holding his leg and all of a sudden he (Inglis) was on his head. I didn’t try and do that, it was just an awkward tackle that went wrong,” Inu said on Wednesday.
“I didn’t realise how bad it was and then I saw the replay. Straight away I stretched out my hand to him and said sorry.
“I didn’t mean anything by it, but I knew I was going to cop a hefty suspension for it.
“But it’s just part of the game and I have no complaints, you just have to cop it on the chin if you do something wrong.”
Inu’s ban came in the middle of a difficult run for the Bulldogs who lost five of their opening six games.
But he said his second ban was more frustrating as it came after he’d been flogged hard in the gym by Des Hasler and his staff for more than a month without a game to look forward to at the end of each week.
“It wasn’t much of a holiday I can tell you, doing all the hard stuff in the gym and not playing,” he said.
“The second ban was hard to take as I had just come back from suspension.
“It may not have looked that way but it was an accident, the guy (McManus) just got caught under my arms.
“I would never go out there to try and hurt anyone.”
Inu faces his former club, cellar-dwelling Parramatta, on Friday and although he’s still very close to Eels stars Tim Mannah and Jarryd Hayne – he feels no sympathy for their plight.
“You don’t feel sorry for any team, you want to go out there and play the game,” he said.
“They are not going as well as they should, but we are going to go out there and play our best football.
“This is always a big game. When I was at Parra I never wanted to lose to the Bulldogs and now I am at the Bulldogs I don’t want to lose to Parra.”