Hull Kr Beat Catalans To Reach Challenge Cup Final

Betfred Challenge Cup semi-final

Hull KR (16) 36

Tries: Batchelor 2, Lewis, Broadbent 2, Burgess Goals: Lewis 6

Catalans (12) 12

Tries: Smith, Keary Goals: Aispuro-Bichet 2

Hull KR reached nan Challenge Cup for nan 2nd clip successful 3 seasons, aft overpowering Catalans Dragons 36-12 successful York.

James Batchelor crossed wrong 4 minutes and past claimed a 2nd people aft a lengthy video reappraisal to put Rovers connected top.

Two tries successful 5 minutes from Reimis Smith and Luke Keary put Les Dracs ahead, but Mikey Lewis wrestled backmost a constrictive 16-12 lead earlier nan break.

Hull KR restarted pinch precocious strength arsenic Lewis, who contributed 16 points, booted a punishment earlier Jack Broadbent's scorching tally opened up a 12-point cushion.

Broadbent's 2nd sealed nan triumph earlier Joe Burgess added precocious gloss.

Hull KR person gone 40 years without a awesome trophy and lifted their only Challenge Cup moreover further back, successful 1980.

But hopes are entity precocious successful Humberside, pinch Rovers sitting apical of Super League and now successful their ninth Challenge Cup last aft an emphatic second-half display.

KR showed first arsenic some sides ignored nan unusually precocious outpouring temperatures and went full-tilt successful a breathless first half.

Batchelor chased down Lewis' footwear done to people aft Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet grounded to punch nan shot retired of nan in-goal area, and past added a hotly-debated 2nd effort aft a lengthy video review.

Matthieu Laguerre appeared to crushed nan shot astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan second-rower, but video referee Ben Thaler could not overrule Chris Kendall's onfield determination to grant nan try.

Dragons offered small successful onslaught successful nan opening 15 minutes but past exploded into life, arsenic Smith trim backmost wrong to divided unfastened nan Rovers defence and transverse adjacent nan posts.

And erstwhile Keary chased down a spot up soon after, Thaler did this clip overrule Kendall - who had called offside - arsenic nan Dragons pinched nan lead.

Catalans went adjacent to extending that lead moments later, but Julian Bousquet's rash flicked offload conscionable metres from nan statement alternatively recovered a Rovers hand.

But nan lucifer turned again earlier half-time arsenic Jai Whitbread's superb offload successful nan tackle sent Lewis flying complete to reconstruct nan Hull KR advantage.

Lewis booted a punishment arsenic Rovers piled connected nan unit aft nan restart and past cracked nan French broadside erstwhile Broadbent spotted a spread and launched a scorching diagonal tally done it to nan posts.

Jez Litten's thrilling tally from his ain half sparked a breathless move which fell conscionable short, but KR killed nan crippled pinch 10 minutes near arsenic Catalans visibly wilted.

Kelepi Tanginoa was sent clear by Lewis' cut-out walk and fed Joe Burgess, whose walk wrong gave Broadbent a clear tally to nan statement earlier Burgess ran successful astatine nan near area for effort number six.

Hull KR: Broadbent; Davies, Hiku, Batchelor, Burgess; Lewis, May; Sue, Litten, Waerea-Hargreaves, Hadley, Whitbread, Minchella.

Interchanges: Luckley, Tanginoa, Brown, Leyland.

Catalans: Aispuro-Bichet; Makinson, Laguerre, Smith, Cotric; Keary, Fages; Pangai Jr, Da Costa, Bousquet, Sims, Whitehead, Partington.

Interchanges: Satae, Navarette, Seguier, Sironen.

Referee: Chris Kendall.