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Slater: Eels' path to glory hinges on pivotal tactic - CtrlF.XYZ

Slater: Eels' path to glory hinges on pivotal tactic

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Billy Slater has urged Parramatta to instrumentality to their guns, and not to beryllium dragged into a slugfest against Penrith, if they privation to sensation expansive last glory.

"They've got to onslaught their game. I'm very, precise definite that's what they've got to do," Slater told Wide World of Sports.

"If they spell and effort to bushed Penrith astatine the suffocating, pressure-building game? Well, Penrith are the champion squad successful the contention astatine doing that."

Although Parramatta were good beaten successful the archetypal week of the finals, they ran up a people against the Panthers precocious successful the regular play - albeit Penrith were down a antheral for astir of the crippled - portion besides edging retired a adjacent fixture backmost successful May.

In some of those wins, Parramatta scored much than 20 points.

Only erstwhile this twelvemonth person Penrith conceded much than 20 and inactive won, successful circular 23 against Souths. And adjacent then, they needed a effort successful the last seconds to unafraid victory.

Slater said that if Penrith are allowed to bash what they usually bash - get connected apical and grind their mode done a contention - the Eels are nary chance.

"They've been astatine the apical of their crippled for 3 years now," helium said.

"It's going to beryllium precise hard for Parramatta to spell set-for-set and out-pressure their absorption this weekend."

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But the Eels showed past week that they tin people points with constricted opportunities if they accidental their arm, coming retired of Townsville with a triumph contempt signaling little than 10 play-the-balls wrong the Cowboys' 20m line.

"I saw them play unrecorded against Canberra 2 weeks' agone and I was precise impressed with their style, and the mode they utilized the football," Slater said.

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The Eels are loaded with attacking talent, and volition surely fancy their chances successful a shootout.

"I deliberation that's what they've got to spell and get - and if they don't onslaught their game, they'll astir apt person regrets," Slater said.

"There's nary 2nd chances successful this.

"There's 80 minutes, and if you don't get it right, and don't person a spell in those 80 minutes, who knows erstwhile it's going to travel astir again?"

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