After only just entering the game off the bench Nathan Cleary’s night ends in total heartbreak after a horrific hip-drop tackle from Phoenix Crossland leaves the star halfback with a compound ankle fracture.

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Cleary remained on the field in excruciating pain, holding onto the green whistle before a team of medics stretchered him off the ground.

Crossland was sent-off, leaving the Knights down a man as Penrith’s premiership campaign takes a devastating blow.

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