Superstar duel set to decide NRL grand final

There volition beryllium 34 players moving astir successful the expansive last - but everyone knows this comes down to a conflict betwixt two.

Whoever wins the duel of superstar halves Nathan Cleary and Mitchell Moses is definite to pb his squad to premiership glory.

With immoderate sneaky tips from existent and erstwhile coaches, adept analysts and a spot of my ain input, I've breached down the games of the 2 playmaking supremos - and predicted however things whitethorn play out.

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CLEARY

Strengths

*If fixed clip and space, helium is the champion fractional successful the NRL and volition predominate the game.

*Reads the crippled similar a seasoned and has a chill caput nether pressure.

*Has the knack of knowing erstwhile to walk and erstwhile to instrumentality connected the enactment himself, invariably taking the close options.

*If the Eels enactment excessively overmuch vigor connected him, helium volition delegate to Luai, who volition past person the latitude to bash damage.

*His spiral bombs are 2nd to nary - helium terrorised the Eels the past clip the teams met.

Panthers halfback Nathan Cleary. (Jason McCawley/Getty Images)

Weaknesses

*He could beryllium bustled disconnected his crippled by Nathan Brown - the Eels' deed antheral has been chosen for that 1 reason.

*When the defence rushes him connected his wrong shoulder, it forces him to footwear agelong arsenic opposed to having clip to nonstop his deadly precocious kicks into orbit. The agelong kicks are acold little dangerous.

MOSES

Strengths

*Probably a metre faster than Cleary implicit a sprint and that makes him a genuine menace to interruption the line.

*Smart kicking crippled - his bombs aren't arsenic unsafe arsenic Cleary's but his agelong punts are usually accurate.

*Gives his supports clip and abstraction with well-timed passes, some agelong and short.

Mitchell Moses embraces Eels halves spouse Dylan Brown aft their preliminary last triumph implicit the Cowboys. (Getty)

Weaknesses

*Can beryllium blameworthy of over-playing his hand, peculiarly if his squad is behind, alternatively than trying to graft backmost into the battle.

*When pressured by the defence, helium tends to not play straight, particularly with his moving game. This results successful the Eels playing sideways and not going forward.

*Kick unit tin spot him forced into mistake - helium booted the shot retired connected the afloat doubly past week against the Cowboys.

CONCLUSION

Cleary has somewhat much people and has the borderline successful consistency. If they play 10 times, helium volition astir apt decorativeness up successful seven, Moses three.

But with Penrith fielding amended enactment players crossed the park, a constrictive Panthers triumph (8-10 points) is connected the cards.

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