Sivo scores hat-trick as Leeds flatten WarringtonImage source, SW PixImage caption, Maika Sivo has scored 25 tries in this season’s Super League Published18 June 2026, 22:05 BSTUpdated 1 minute agoBetfred Super LeagueWarrington (2) 6Tries: Ashton Goals: IrwinLeeds (16) 34Tries: Sivo 3, Croft, Newman, Hankinson Goals: Connor 5Maika Sivo scored his fifth hat-trick of the Super League season as Leeds Rhinos won the top-of-the-table match against Warrington Wolves in emphatic fashion.The Fiji international took his 2026 Super League try tally to 25 as the Rhinos dished out a 34-6 hammering to give dismal Warrington a first home defeat of the season.Victory means Leeds go clear at the top of Super League, moving two points ahead of Warrington, who started the match level on points with the Rhinos but in second place on points difference.Warrington chose a bad night to put in the worst display of their season at the Halliwell Jones Stadium with Leeds dominant with and without the ball.And while there were solid performances through the whole team with the returning Lachie Miller superb, it was the irresistible force that is Sivo who was the diamond cutting edge.The Leeds winger’s 25 tries put him nine clear of the next best, Leigh’s Josh Charnley on 16.In addition to leaving his mark on the game he left plenty on Warrington’s bruised defence, including Josh Thewlis who felt the full force of Sivo as the winger powered past him to score his second.When Warrington took two points early in the piece, Ewan Irwin kicking the goal, it was presumably in the belief this could have been a tight affair.But two tries in two minutes from Sivo and Brodie Croft, who has signed a three-year deal with Warrington starting next season, blew that plan out of the water and a third eight minutes later, Harry Newman gathering a high kick as Thewlis hesitated, really put the visitors in command.
Warrington were perhaps a touch unlucky that the Newman try stood with the Leeds centre looking a shade in front of the kicker when the ball went up but had that gone in their favour it would not have made much difference to the result.
Jake Connor kicked two of the conversions to give Leeds a 16-2 half-time lead and the direction of the game was set.
Miller, returning to the side after a three-match suspension was excellent, pulling the strings at full-back.
It was the Australian whose pass put in Chris Hankinson just three minutes after the restart and he then engineered a penalty when blocked by James Bentley two minutes later which Connor converted.
After Sivo secured his hat-trick shortly before the hour, Warrington staged a belated comeback in the final 20 minutes.
Matty Ashton finished off a nice move to give the home side their only try six minutes from time but it was too little too late and proved just a momentary pause in the Leeds celebrations.
Warrington: Thewlis, Ashton, Lindop, Smith, Hopoate, Hayes, Irwin; Thomas, Walker, Byrne, Harrison, Bentley, Currie
Interchanges: Powell, Sipley, Crowther, Tanginoa
Leeds: Miller, Hall, Newman, Handley, Sivo, Croft, Connor; Oledzki, Levi, Palasia, Hankinson, McDonnell, Watkins
Interchanges: Jenkins, O’Connor, Smith, Cassell
Referee: Liam Moore.
