Huddersfield comfortably sweep aside Catalans

Betfred Super League

Huddersfield (12) 18

Tries: Flanagan 2 Gagai Goals: Flanagan 3

Catalans (0) 6

Tries: Sironen Goals: Aispuro-Bichet

Huddersfield Giants finally registered their first home win of the 2025 Super League season with a 18-6 victory against Catalans Dragons.

Full-back George Flanagan racked up 14 points for Giants in a player of the match display as the hosts outplayed the club from Perpignan.

Giants wing Jacob Gagai raced clear to score a breakaway try in the first half for his ninth in Super League this season.

This was Huddersfield's first back-to-back win of the campaign but they stay 11th in the Super League table, level on points with 10th placed Cas while Catalans fell to their 15th defeat of a disappointing campaign.

After a drab 18 minutes, Flanagan lit up the game when he broke away down the right hand side following a Huddersfield set piece to dive over under the sticks and break the deadlock.

Flanagan then blotted his copybook when he missed a very presentable opportunity to kick another two points after Catalans' Matthieu Laguerre was caught offside.

From the restart, Catalans' Australian second-row Bayley Sironen was sent to the sin bin for a needlessly high tackle on Matty English.

A slack pass from Luke Keary was then pounced on by Gagai who comfortably intercepted and raced away from just inside the Catalans half, to finish unopposed with a flourish as the Giants doubled their lead after Flanagan kicked the extra two.

With the sun out in the second period, Catalans thought they were on the scoresheet when Oliver Partington dived over next to the sticks but the try was chalked off after Laguerre was penalised for a knock-on on the floor.

Just after the hour mark, a good kick from Keary found Tommy Makinson who unselfishly found Sironen, now back on the field, to dot down and put the visitors on the board with Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet cooly slotting the extras from the left touchline.

That was as good as it got for the visitors who drastically lacked imagination in the final third, being forced into kicking on the final tackle by a Giants defence who kept their concentration despite a dismal 2025 campaign.

After Catalans were caught offside once more in front of their own goal, Flanagan called for the tee and easily kicked his third goal of the match to extend the hosts lead to eight.

With seven minutes left, 20-year-old Flanagan collected a short pass from Kieran Rush to hand off three sorry Catalans challenges before touching down to seal a convincing win.

Huddersfield: Flanagan; Gagai, Milne, Bibby, Halsall; Rush, Frawley; Rogers, Woolford, Powell; Rushton, Greenwood, Cudjoe

Interchanges: Wilson, Golding, English, King

Catalans: Aispuro-Bichet; Makinson, Romano, Laguerre, Darrelatour; Keary, Fages; Maria, Da Costa, Navarrette; Garcia, Sironen, Partington

Interchanges: Sims, Satae, Dezaria, Balmforth

Sin-bin: Sironen (31 mins)

Referee: Aaron Moore.