{"id":194683,"date":"2025-06-18T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194683\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:08:09","slug":"state-of-origin-queensland-hold-off-new-south-wales-comeback-to-force-series-decider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194683\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin: Queensland hold off New South Wales comeback to force series decider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Queensland held off an incredible comeback from New South Wales to win 26-24 and force a decider in the three-game State of Origin series.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Maroons scored four first-half tries to enter the break with a 26-6 lead in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That left the Blues with a mountain to climb, but they started the second half strongly as Brian To&#8217;o completed his hat-trick to put his side back in contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 72nd-minute try from Angus Crichton cut the Maroons&#8217; advantage to two points, but the Blues missed several chances to complete the series win at the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goal-kicking errors proved costly for the defending champions, with Zac Lomax missing three of his five attempts, while Valentine Holmes was perfect with four from four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To make matters worse for the Blues, halfback Jarome Luai was placed on report for appearing to rake his fingers across Reuben Cotter&#8217;s eyes in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The series decider is on 9 July at Accor Stadium, Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland held off an incredible comeback from New South Wales to win 26-24 and force a decider in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114705000543166228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}