Jai Field 7. The paupers for so long, these days the Panthers compete with anyone dollar for dollar when it comes to the junior nursery stakes but the old inferiority complex can still rise when the Eels come to town. but despite Penrith being one of just two teams to beat Parramatta at There has only been a double figure final margin between the teams once in the last 16 years. The Eels are the only team to have defeated the Panthers in 2020, staging a fantastic comeback in Round 5 to come away 16-10 winners – the second straight meeting between the teams where the match has finished as that scoreline. Sports Predictor AUS is not responsible for any financial loss from the use of predictions and material on this website. As with any enigmatic youngster he has still thrown in more than his fair share of errors, something he’ll be keen to cut out moving forward. Dylan Brown 7. Reagan Campbell-Gillard 9.

Bankwest Stadium in their 13 matches there to date, the Eels look the

Dylan Edwards, Stay up to date with the latest sports news. Mitch Kenny 19. Chief shot-taker Mitchell Moses has managed just three successful conversions from eight attempts so far in 2018.

Guys like Dylan Edwards (32 tackle breaks) have benefitted greatly sniffing around behind the likes of James Tamou, Trent Merrin and Reagan Campbell-Gillard while his 663 run metres have him fourth overall in the league. The added air of desperation should bring the best out of the Eels, but with things as they are there are too many question marks surrounding them. Apisai Koroisau 10. Brent Naden 4.

James Fisher-Harris 11. There are few rivalries in the NRL more passionate and more fiercely contested than the one dubbed the Battle of the West. Let us know in the comments and poll below. Ill-discipline has also been at the forefront of Parramatta’s problems with the blue and golds amongst the more heavily penalised and error-prone outfits in the league.

The Eels are fast approaching a point in the season where they simply must win to be any chance of taking part in finals footy at the end of the season. Nathan Cleary 8. Centre Waqa Blake was instrumental in the first-up victory and the young centre has been in career best form this season, scoring four tries in as many games and averaging around a dozen tackles per game in the process. at Bankwest Stadium on Friday June 12, 2020. The old saying goes that teams on big winning streaks are better off losing before the finals, so only time will tell if that rings true for Penrith, but you get the feeling it’s almost impossible for them to continue winning all the way through to the Grand Final. Ray Stone 15. Viliame Kikau 12. Parramatta Eels 18 at Panthers Stadium, 2016 - Rd 5 - Penrith Panthers 20 def. Jarome Luai 7. for the season in what has been an impressive start to the campaign and

The Panthers and Eels met earlier in round one, with the Eels taking the two points in a 20-12 win.

serving a suspension with his inclusion seeing Matt Burton revert to lead until their opponents fought back to almost snatch the two Brian To’o 6. While Tamou was solid in his debut season with the Panthers in 2017, it was RCG who made huge strides forward and looks capable of becoming one of the game's best props over the next couple of years. Jack Hetherington 21. Jarome Luai 7. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform.