St Helens Go Fourth As Hull Fc's Home Woes Continue

Betfred Super League

Hull FC (0) 6

Tries: Litten Goals: Hardaker

St Helens (8) 13

Tries: Feldt 2 Goals: Lomax 2 Drop Goal: Lomax

St Helens held disconnected Hull FC to declare a hard-fought triumph astatine MKM Stadium successful week 17 of Super League.

Two tries from Australian winger Kyle Feldt, positive 2 kicks and a driblet extremity from skipper Jonny Lomax, earned in-form Saints a sixth triumph from their past 7 matches.

Hull centre Davy Litten had fixed nan hosts dream of a comeback erstwhile he dived complete to people successful nan 2nd half but they stay without a location triumph this season.

Saints move supra Leeds Rhinos up to 4th successful Super League while Hull driblet to seventh beneath Wakefield who hammered Catalans Dragons astatine Belle Vue.

In nan opening exchanges, Curtis Sironen's statement break created an overload connected nan near helping but terrific scrambling defending from Harvey Barron and Zak Hardaker prevented a definite 4 points for Saints.

Moments later, aft Hull were caught offside, Saints came again and Feldt pirouetted past Aidan Sezer to people for nan visitors earlier Lomax added nan extras from nan touchline.

After soaking up sustained Saints pressure, nan hosts looked to counter-punch but Jed Cartwright - making his first quality for 4 months because of wounded - was incapable to offload to Litten erstwhile he was conscionable 5 yards short of nan guidance line.

Perhaps disappointment by not making their 61% first-half possession much telling, Saints allowed ill-discipline to creep successful and Moses Mbye could person been sent to nan misdeed bin for a precocious tackle connected Hardaker - but conscionable a punishment was awarded instead.

Just earlier nan interval, Hull worked nan shot near and winger Lewis Martin catapulted himself to nan statement but a terrific try-saving tackle from Saints' Harry Robertson thwarted him to support nan hosts people to nil astatine nan break.

Five minutes into nan 2nd half, Mbye's precocious footwear to nan area was gathered brilliantly by Feldt, who climbed highest and rolled past 2 Hull players to declare his 2nd effort of nan match.

In nan 53rd minute, Hull yet clicked into cogwheel erstwhile skipper Sezer raced done midfield and unselfishly recovered Litten to decorativeness expertly nether unit from Robertson for nan hosts' only score.

After Hardaker nailed nan extras from touch, nan location fans attempted to assistance their broadside but clip and again handling errors prevented meaningful surges forward.

With conscionable a fewer minutes left, Sezer's precocious footwear to Barron successful nan area was brilliantly claimed successful nan aerial by Saints' Owen Dagnall, who had passed a caput wounded appraisal not agelong earlier to return to nan section aft a worrying collision.

Down nan different end, a uncommon correction from Barron allowed Saints to regain nan shot and yet it was group backmost to Lomax, whose drop-goal successful beforehand of nan sticks closed retired nan triumph for nan visitors.

Hull FC leader John Cartwright:

"I saw immoderate really reliable efforts and that's wherever we request to be.

"I cognize what they're tin of, nan reliable point to get correct is getting blokes to support trying erstwhile things aren't going your measurement and they're doing it for america successful spades.

"I astir apt sound for illustration a surgery grounds but I emotion nan measurement they enactment together and activity for each other."

St Helens caput coach Paul Wellens:

"Toughness is astir apt nan connection that comes to mind. We looked for illustration a squad that enjoyed being successful that type of brushwood and were comfortable – I've astir apt questioned that successful nan past.

"We cognize there's bits of our crippled we request to activity connected if we want to return that adjacent measurement arsenic a squad but what I can't responsibility is nan group's resilience and effort, I thought it was top-class.

"If you've sewage that type of toughness successful you, you tin triumph games erstwhile you're possibly not astatine your best."

Hull FC: Hardaker; Barron, Rapana, Litten, Martin; Cust, Sezer; Ese'ese, Bourouh, Knight, Ashworth, Chamberlain, Aydin

Interchanges: Briscoe, Cartwright, Fash, Eseh

St Helens: Sailor; Feldt, Robertson, Whitley, Dagnall; Lomax, Mbye; Walmsley, Clark, Lees, Sironen, Wingfield, Knowles

Interchanges: Paasi, Delaney, Stephens, Burns

Referee: Liam Moore.