Castleford Tigers stand off Ben Roberts insists that the league leaders have a tough finish to the season ahead of this weeks clash with the Leeds Rhinos.
The Tigers have defeated Leeds three times this season and will be going into the match with full confidence,ย knowing that momentum will play a key role in getting them to Old Trafford and possibly Grand Final glory. However before all that they face three ofย Super Leagueโs most challenging sides in the shape of Challenge Cup winners and runners up Hull FC and Wigan Warriors.
But full focus will be on this weeks game insisted Ben Roberts, who expects a massive response from the Leeds Rhinos following their previous losses against the Castleford Tigers.
โWe have got Leeds this week, then Wigan and Hull. They are probably three of the toughest teams you could get at the back end of the season,โ said Roberts.
โFor us it is a good opportunity to build a bit of momentum and get our game right heading into the semi-final.โ
Castlefordย defeated the Huddersfield Giants in round four of the Super 8โs havingย trailed 12-6 atย half time, but tries byย Greg Eden, Luke Gale and Ben Roberts himself saw the Tigers come home with the two points.
Roberts wants to see improvements inย the side following last weeks game, which saw them giving away penalties constantly aswell as basic handling errors.
โWe probably started off a bit slow and were a bit scrappy, but we knew if we could push the reset button and go again we had what was needed to get the win,โ said the Tigers stand off.
โWe conceded a couple of soft penalties and we knew if we could clean that up and get our attacking game right we would be able to come away with the win. It was going to be probably the toughest game to get up for mentally out of the last four.โ
โHopefully we can improve on that against Leeds, but the second half was a bit better.โ