In a Nutshell
The Raiders were behind for almost the entire match before they finally managed to snatch a winning score two minutes from the end at CIO Stadium on Sunday
How it unfolded
The Storm shot out to a 6-16 lead through tries from Ryan Hinchliffe, Sisa Waqa and Mahe Fonua, with Cameron Smith converting two of them.
The Raiders had scored a try through Matt Allwood, converted by Jarrod Croker.
But they managed to get back into the game in the shadow of half-time through a try by Reece Robinson, after great work by Raiders captain Terry Campese, making the half-time score 12-16.
Melbourne extended their lead to ten points soon after half-time with another converted try by Fonua.
But the Raiders fought back with a second converted try to Robinson, and it was Italian World Cup forward Paul Vaughan who scored with a last-ditch effort for Canberra to earn them the points after Croker added the final conversion.
Full coverage of this week’s NRL games can be seen in Monday’s Rugby League Express, in the shops and online on totalrl.com from 11.00pm on Sunday night UK time.
