Faatili double helps Wakefield end Hull KR's home run

Betfred Super League

Hull KR (6) 6

Goals: Martin (3)

Wakefield (6) 20

Tries: Smith, Faatili (2) Goals: Smoothy (3)

Wakefield Trinity ended Super League champions Hull KR's 11-game home winning run.

Harvey Smith's early score and a second-half double from Caius Faatili were the difference for Trinity at Craven Park.

Rovers did not get going, failing to score a try as Rhyse Martin's three penalty goals gave them their only points.

The Robins have lost further ground in the play-off race, having been beaten on their own patch for the first time in more than a year.

Trinity's early pressure paid off when Smith found a gap and exploited it to cross from close range. But Tyson Smoothy failed to kick what should have been a straightforward conversion, hitting the post.

Rovers' nightmare opening 13 minutes was compounded when Peta Hiku was sent to the sin-bin for a late, high tackle.

They levelled through Martin's quick-fire penalty goals, while Trinity's Ky Rodwell also entered the bin.

Two more kicks ended an extremely scrappy half - Smoothy restored Wakefield's lead, but Martin kicked his third just before the buzzer.

Wakefield added a second try when Faatili overpowered full-back Ryan Hampshire on the line to force his way over, leaving Smoothy with a simple conversion.

The Robins could not contain Faatili as he forced his way over just before the hour, as more sloppy defensive play was punished. Smoothy, again, had an easy kick.

Mikey Lewis saw a try denied for a knock-on by Joe Burgess with 15 minutes remaining, and given Hull's lack of potency, it seemed like a vital moment of the game.

Hull KR head coach Willie Peters told BBC Radio Humberside:

"I'm very disappointed. We need to look at what happened. I need to be accountable, players need to be accountable, staff need to be accountable.

"I'm not bothered about the scoreboard, I'm bothered about performance. That was a really, really poor performance.

"We got back at half-time to 6-6, we had an opportunity to put pressure on in the second half, but we didn't do that. It was our doing.

"We had ill discipline, yellow cards. It hurts. The refereeing decisions are not my concern - my concern is my team and that performance."

Hull KR: Hampshire, Davies, Hiku, Gildart, Burgess, Lewis, May, Sue, Lawton, Whitbread, Martin, Batchelor, Minchella

Interchanges: Litten, Broadbent, Luckley, Dezaria

Wakefield: Rourke, Walsmsley, Scott, Tate, Johnstone, Trueman, Smoothy, McMeeken, Smith, Rodwell, Storton, Vagana, Tevaga

Interchanges: Pitts, Hamlin-Uele, Faatili, Lawford

Referee: Chris Kendall.