LACHLAN Maranta knows he touched the ball, but still isn’t sure whether he made the right play or not.

The answer is, he did - because the Broncos won the match.

To set the scene.

Last Friday night with less than a minute left in regulation time, and the scores tied at 18-all, Roosters' half James Maloney gets off a good long-range shot at field goal.

If it goes over, the Roosters win the game.

Maranta is at fullback just underneath the cross bar and knows distance is going to be a close shave.

As it cannons towards the cross bar, he leaps high in the air and gets a touch, the ball bouncing off the woodwork and back into play.

The Broncos survive to go into extra time and ultimately win it with a Ben Hunt try.

But what was Maranta thinking at the time?

"To be honest I don't know what I was thinking," he said today.

"I just saw the ball in the air and thought we would rather have a knock on than the ball go over.

"Now I look back on it I don't know if I helped stop it, or helped it go higher.

"The thing is we got the win, so it doesn't matter.

"It was a spur of the moment thing."

Of course if the rugby league gods were against the Broncos, the ball could have tipped over the bar for a match-winning field goal.

But Maranta said he didn't even think about it as the ball bounced back into play and Roosters prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves regathered, the Broncos having to scramble to kill off the play.

"To be honest I was more scared when I saw Hargreaves running down the field to collect the rebound," he said.

“I thought, now we have to stop him.”

They did, and went on to win a classic match.

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