The Rhinos looked ominous from the start, pinning the home side back and stealing yards with expansive running rugby, yet handling errors let them down.<\/p>\n
The breakthrough did come within 11 minutes when Croft threaded a super kick through the Giants backline for Newman to chase down for his ninth try of the season.<\/p>\n
Huddersfield regrouped and replied with threat of their own in a sustained spell of territory and possession, with George Flanagan’s score ruled out for a forward pass from Joe Greenwood on his 100th appearance.<\/p>\n
Yet Leeds’ improved defence held out, just, and the hosts’ growing frustration led to ill discipline which allowed Rhinos to edge into a two-score lead at the break.<\/p>\n
Jack Billington’s shoulder charge on Connor earned the Rhinos a penalty which the stand-off picked himself up to slot through. And moments later an off-the-ball challenge from Woolford allowed Connor to split the posts from 40 metres.<\/p>\n
Giants had to soak up more early pressure as the second half followed a similar pattern, with Leeds battering away while struggling to turn territory and possession into points.<\/p>\n
Fiercely committed defence kept home hopes alive, and the Rhinos needed a stroke of luck to extend the lead when Gannon scooped up a poor Miller pass to burst through the middle and cross.<\/p>\n
Sam Lisone dragged three Giants over the line, but was ruled held up as the visitors looked to add deserved gloss to the scoreline.<\/p>\n
A little flair and sublime vision from Miller did just that, collecting his own chip kick to send the supporting Croft away to slide over before Oledski powered through for a last-gasp score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rhinos looked ominous from the start, pinning the home side back and stealing yards with expansive running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148084091177335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398226","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=398226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}