Relive Wigan's Challenge Cup final win over Huddersfield

Summary

Wigan beat Huddersfield to win 20th Challenge Cup
Late Marshall try settles topsy-turvy match
Wigan's first Challenge Cup title since 2013
Game played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for first time

Live Reporting

Jay Freeman

Team newspublished at 14:28 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
Huddersfield v Wigan (15:00 BST)
No Will Pryce for Huddersfield, despite his suspension lapsing in time to feature today.
Chris McQueen comes in following last week's narrow win against Toulouse.
Huddersfield: Lolohea, McGilvary, Cudjoe, Leutele, I.Senior, Cogger, Russell, Yates, McQueen, Jones, Hill, Levi, Wilson.
Interchanges: English, Greenwood, Golding, Trout.
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Postpublished at 14:27 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
Time for a bit of team news with just over 30 minutes until kick-off...
Follow the action across the BBCpublished at 14:24 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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BBC One
To say we have you covered today if you want to follow the action in this year's Challenge Cup final is a bit of an understatement.
Alongside my ramblings are an array of multimedia options at the top of this page.
Fancy watching live coverage on BBC One? Press play. BBC local radio? Press play. BBC Radio 5 Live? You know the drill.
Are we in for closest final in years?published at 14:20 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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Dave Woods
BBC Rugby League correspondent
Two Challenge Cup history-makers are predicting that this year's final could be one of the tightest contests the occasion has seen, despite Warriors slated as slight favourites.
John Kear, who masterminded arguably the competition's biggest upset when Sheffield Eagles beat Wigan in the 1998 final at Wembley, will be part of BBC Radio 5 Live's full match commentary team.
Kevin Brown played for an unprecedented four different teams in Challenge Cup finals - including both this year's finalists - and will be on the panel as part of the BBC One television coverage.
And, both are predicting a blockbuster.
Farrell hoping to emulate winning Wigan captainspublished at 14:16
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Wigan's class of 2022 hope to emulate the dominant Challenge Cup-winning sides of the past when they face Huddersfield in Saturday's final, says stand-in captain Liam Farrell.
No team has lifted the trophy more times than Wigan's 19, including a run of consecutive wins from 1988 to 1995.
However, it is nine years since a Wigan captain last hoisted the cup aloft such as Graeme West, Dean Bell and Eric Ashton (pictured above).
"You can't deny the club's got a rich history with the Challenge Cup," Farrell told BBC Radio Manchester.
"The teams of the late '80s and early '90s, they had such dominance.
"This team is trying to make our own history. We're a completely different set of blokes.
"They earned their part in history in their own right, and we are trying to make sure we play our part and get our name on the trophy."
Can Giants end almost 70-year run?published at 14:12 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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Prior to today, Huddersfield have made 10 Challenge Cup final appearances, with the Giants winning on six occasions.
The last time they won however, was in 1953. That win, 69 years ago, came courtesy of a 15-10 victory over St Helens.
Can Ian Watson lead them to a memorable victory to end generations without victory in the famous trophy?
Matty Peet & Ian Watson in focuspublished at 14:08 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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Dave Woods
BBC Rugby League correspondent
Image source, SWPix.com
One year ago, hardly anyone outside of Wigan Warriors' inner sanctum had heard of Matty Peet.
But today he will be the club's head coach leading the Warriors in their attempt to win a record-extending 20th Challenge Cup final.
In just a matter of months since his shock appointment as the new Warriors boss he has restored the club to the status of genuine trophy hunters.
In the other dugout, Ian Watson - hoping to steer his Huddersfield team to a first cup final win since 1953 - is now an established member of Super League's coaching elite.
He had already led unfashionable Salford to a Grand Final and Challenge Cup final before switching to the Giants.
But, it was not that long ago that the former Wales international would have been given no chance of ever coaching at the top level.
Now that both are in high-profile hot-seats, they hope they are leading the charge for a resurgence of British coaches.
The last time these two teams met in the finalpublished at 14:04 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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These two teams have met just once in a Challenge Cup final.
'And when was that?' you ask.. 1920. Over 100 years ago. Huddersfield beat Wigan 21-10 that day at Headingley.
Bit of a different vibe all these years on, mind. I doubt Headingley had a retracting pitch or a dedicated brewery, for example.
Welcomepublished at 14:00 British Summer Time 28 May 2022
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New time, new stadium.
The Challenge Cup final is back. One of the showpieces of the British sporting calendar calls the magnificent Tottenham Hotspur Stadium its home for today.
Huddersfield battle against Wigan for the first major rugby league title of the year.
Let's get going.