Superliga leaders the Catalans Dragons have confirmed that captain Benjamin Garcia broke his forearm in Saturday’s 32-30 win over Hull KR
The French international forward has started all but one of his team’s 16 league and cup games this season, but will now be out of the game for at least six weeks as he prepares to undergo surgery.
A Barcelona spokesman said: “Tomorrow he will see a specialist and will be operated on to repair the injury. It will not be available for a minimum of six weeks. “
Half of the Rovers, Jordan Abdull, bombarded the French team leading the table with a series of high bombs to help put the Rovers 14 points ahead at halftime, but it wasn’t enough to withstand a late Dragons attack. who headed the table and who took them. to a club record of 10 wins in a row.
The Rovers were the first to score through Abdull, but the Dragons responded when second row Matt Whitley bounced back happily to walk unhindered between the posts, Arthur Mourgue converted to level the score at 6-6.
Robins struck back when Shaun Kenny-Dowall cleaned up a missed high kick from Tom Davies to cross the line, but Sam Tomkins answered for Les Dracs with a side run to the left of the posts for an attempt, Mourgue converting to level the scores. one more time.
Abdull’s bombing mission continued with a Steepler tricking Tomkins into being picked up by Greg Minikin and pouncing between the sticks, then Adam Quinlan ran 50 meters to make it 12-26 at halftime.
Whitley and Abdull then made their second attempts and then the Dragons comeback began when Kasiano found Mickael Goudemand to put the French international in the second row on the line and then Fouad Yaha crossed before Arthur Mourgue achieved a narrow victory for the Dragons.
Hull KR coach Tony Smith said: “I was satisfied with the effort, but not so satisfied with the overall performance. I thought we controlled the game very well in the first half.
“But we had very little control and discipline in the second half, which was really disappointing in terms of where we want to be at this stage of the season.
“We had a great opportunity there to turn our opponents around, but all the credit goes to the Catalans for fighting so hard.
“It’s difficult to lose a game like this, especially when you’ve played so well in the first half with great individual performances.
“But collectively in the second half we weren’t very good.
“I’m not making any excuses saying we were rusty or something and we’ve learned some really pertinent lessons in those 40 seconds and we’ll carry it into the next few weeks for sure.
“So we are not going to sulk or get carried away by any aspect of our game, we will just take it in, learn from it and get it going on Thursday.”
McNamara was not impressed with the performance of the Catalans Dragons.
“Of course I am happy that I won, but I am really unhappy with the performance.
“In the last three games, in which we have had to come back, we have had to be very disciplined, but it is quite clear that we are not at the top of our game.
“It seems that we have created a habit that we have to get out of very quickly.
Catalan dragons: S. Tomkins, Davies, Whare, Langi, Yaha, Mourgue, Drinkwater, García, McMeeken, Whitley, Dudson, Da Costa, Bousquet. Subs: Jullien, Seguier, Goudemand, Kasiano.
Hull Kingston Rovers: Quinlan, Crooks, Minikin, Kenny-Dowall, Hall, Takairangi, Abdull, Hadley, Johnson, Linnett, Maher, Litten, Lawler. Subs: Go away, Parcell, Sims, King.
Referee: James Child (RFL).
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Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
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