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Wigan Warriors vs Sydney Roosters highlights: World Club Challenge live scores, blog

17th February, 2019
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Match Result:

The Roosters have won their fourth World Club Championship after downing Wigan 20-8 in the 2019 World Club Challenge at the DW Stadium.
A stunning first-half hat-trick from new signing Brett Morris helped the Roosters claim victory.

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The Wigan Warriors and the Sydney Roosters will lock horns to decide the best club side in the world of rugby league. Join The Roar from 6am AEDT for live scores and a blog of the World Club Challenge.

Super League’s defending champions Wigan will pit their wits against the boys from Bondi on their home turf of the DW Stadium.

The Warriors earned their right by beating Warrington at Old Trafford in the 2018 grand final.

Wigan are gunning for their record fifth World Club Challenge crown. They have more than any other team, English or Australian.

The Warriors will fancy their chances as they are at home and are already two rounds into the Super League season. Two years ago they knocked off Cronulla in the same stadium.

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Under new coach Adrian Lam, a Roosters legend, Wigan have had one win and one loss so far in Super League in 2019.

The Warriors and Lam could come up against Lachlan Lam, the Wigan-born son of Adrian, in the Tricolors.

Roosters coach Trent Robinson named a strong 22-man squad to take over to the UK. The only notable star missing is Latrell Mitchell, who played for the Indigenous All Stars on Friday.

Mitch Aubusson is likely to take Mitchell’s centre spot.

The Chooks have a lot of experience of the World Club Challenge and of English conditions, after beating Wigan in the annual northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere clash at the Sydney Football Stadium in 2014.

They played in the World Club Series against St Helens in 2016, thrashing Saints 38-12 at Langtree Park. The Roosters actually took part in the first-ever World Club Challenge, way back in 1976, when the current NRL champs beat St Helens 25-2.

Robinson and his players are taking this match seriously, hence the extended trip that has seen them train in Paris along the way to Wigan. The likes of Boyd Cordner and Cooper Cronk are relishing the chance to face English opponents again.

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Prediction
Wigan might have the advantage of being already into their season, and used to the cold, but the Roosters have too much firepower in James Tedesco, Cooper Cronk, Luke Keary, Jake Friend, Boyd Cordner and the rest and are taking this game seriously.

The Roosters to win by eight points or more.

Join The Roar for a live blog of the match from 6am AEDT.

Where: DW Stadium, Wigan
When: 6am AEDT Monday
TV: Gem
Betting: Wigan $2.60, Draw $25, Roosters $1.40

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