Catalans Dragons 20 Warrington Wolves 14, Challenge Cup Final

Catalans Dragons 20 Warrington Wolves 14

Dragons: Tony Gigot; Lewis Tierney, David Mead, Brayden Wiliame, Fouad Yaha; Samisoni Langi, Josh Drinkwater; Mickael Simon, Micky McIlorum, Sam Moa, Benjamin Jullien, Ben Garcia, Remi Casty. Subs: Julian Bousquet, Jason Baitieri, Kenny Edwards, Mickael Goudemand.

Wolves: Stefan Ratchford; Josh Charnley, Toby King, Bryson Goodwin, Tom Lineham; Kevin Brown, Tyrone Roberts; Chris Hill, Daryl Clark, Mike Cooper, Harvey Livett, Jack Hughes, Ben Westwood. Subs: Ben Murdoch-Masila, George King, Dec Patton, Joe Philbin.

Scoring: Tierney try, 2mins, Drinkwater, 6-0; Drinkwater penalty goal, 7mins, 8-0; Murdoch-Masila try, 28mins, Roberts goal, 8-6; Garcia try, 34mins, Drinkwater goal, 14-6; Wiliame try, 45mins, Drinkwater goal, 20-6; George King try, 56mins, Roberts goal, 20-12; Roberts penalty goal, 70mins, 20-14;

Penalties: Dragons 7 Wolves 9

Referee: Robert Hicks

Attendance: 50,672

Wire's top man: To be decided by readers’ poll at warringtonguardian.co.uk tomorrow.

Lance Todd Trophy winner: Tony Gigot

Gutted for the wolves, but it will our year next year x

— lynnlowe64 (@lynnlowe641) August 25, 2018

Fantastic win for @DragonsOfficiel - sheer guts and fighting spirit right to the end. This is a great day for French Rugby League. Hard lines @wolvesrl - worthy opponents. 👏🏼🇫🇷🏉🏆🥇 #ChallengeCupFinal #AllezLesDracs

— Ben Haddock 🇸🇾🇷🇸🇩🇪 (@BHaddock_UZ) August 25, 2018

Distraught for @wolvesrl but @DragonsOfficiel we’re so much better on the day.

— Stuart Antony Baker (@stu579) August 25, 2018

Today it wasn’t to be, we will just have to do it at old Trafford in October instead @wolvesrl 🐺🐺💛💙 #ItsAlwaysOurYear

— Jamie Whitehurst (@jwhitehurst1989) August 25, 2018

Absolutely belting final. Gutted for the @wolvesrl lads but amazing result for the @DragonsOfficiel - brilliant and well done, huge credit to Steve McNamara and a nod to the Catalans board for sticking with him and allowing him to rebuild.

— Ben Lazenby (@PPMBenLazenby) August 25, 2018

Congrats @DragonsOfficiel hard luck @wolvesrl 🏉🏆 I’ve always been about taking the game to a wider audience and expanding its appeal and that created some history, so well played and great for the French game! #bbcrl #ChallengeCup 🇫🇷

— Tulsen Tollett (@TulsenTollett) August 25, 2018

Huge commiserations to @wolvesrl .

A sad ending to a great cup run from Steve Price & the team but best of luck for the rest of the season. @TheChallengeCup

— Helen Jones MP (@HelenJonesMP) August 25, 2018

@wolvesrl That, I’m afraid, was poor. I have to wonder what Messers Moran, Middleton etc;  must be thinking?

— Wire (@FletcherEnder) August 25, 2018