Warriors coach Ivan Cleary hailed his side's 35-6 NRL win over Parramatta on Sunday as their best of the season, as the Eels slumped to a third successive defeat at Mount Smart Stadium.

The victory was a third on the spin for Cleary's side, who moved into the top eight after a solid performance over a struggling Eels side.

"This was the most controlled I've seen us play for a long time," said Cleary.

"It just felt like we were in control for most of the game, yet it was 12-6 with 20 minutes to go.

"I really wanted us to get more than six ahead because we had a lot of field possession in the second half, but the boys didn't panic and they carried on playing the way we spoke about playing.

"For this being such a young team, I'm pretty happy."

A defiant Daniel Anderson refused to give up hope that Parramatta can make the finals.

Once again Anderson's side were inept in attack and have not scored more than six points in a game for over a month.

The Eels coach said while his side's hopes are still alive, it's vital they end their losing streak, and pick up a win against North Queensland next Monday.

"We're running out of games," said Anderson.

"But that's the pressure we've placed upon ourselves and we've got to come up with the performance next Monday night, it's as simple as that.

"We're fighting and scrapping in all the games, it's little bounces and ricochets, we had opportunities there to place points and we missed those opportunities, even when we had good field position."

Despite the one-sided look to the scoreboard, Anderson said his team's performance didn't reflect a 29-point loss.

"I thought we defended better than 35 points against us but the Warriors got on a roll from the 65th minute on and put on a couple of nice tries," said Anderson, who refuted suggestions the furore over his criticism of Jarryd Hayne last week had a negative impact on the team.

"We just made some really big errors tonight, even at 12-6 in the second half. Joel Reddy made a break and there was a forward pass, it was little things like that. We missed opportunities to get momentum and get points."

Lewis Brown opened the scoring for the home side, gathering up a grubber from Isaac John just in front of the Eel's goal line.

But in the 14th minute Auckland-bound Krisnan Inu briefly sparked an Eels revival with a well-weighted chip kick over the Warriors' defence and the attack was finished off by Tom Humble, who dived over the line.

Just before the break Ben Matulino went through a hole left by Daniel Mortimer and Justin Horo to give the Warriors to a 12-6 lead at the break.

The wet and cold conditions brought down the quality of play from both teams in the second half, with both sides turning over possession, but the Warriors were able to hold on to the pill long enough for Ukuma Ta'ai to barge over in the 62nd minute.

Following a James Maloney penalty, Manu Vatuvei stripped the ball off Inu a few metres from the visitors' line and went in for the points while Maloney and Brown added further pain to the Eels with late tries.

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