Salford’s season has gone from bad to worse after another disappointing outing in round 3.
Round 3 Results
Embed from Getty ImagesHull Kingston Rovers 42-0 Salford Red Devils
The visitors’ torrid season continued and, in the midst of Salford employees not being paid, Hull KR piled on the points without playmaking maestro and Man Of Steel Mikey Lewis.
Their injury crisis worsened this week, however, with Niall Evalds ruled out for concussion two minutes in and Rhys Martin limping off.
That provided little advantage to Salford though, with an error strewn showing – kicked off by an early yellow card for Jayden Nikorima – shipping three first half tries (along with two Danny Richardson penalties) while the fluid KR attack notched four in the second half, topping up the Red Devils’ points against to 156 though three games.
Huddersfield Giants 10-11 Hull FC
After a lifeless 46-4 drubbing at home to Wigan, the Black and Whites and Sezer made it 2 wins from 3 games with a 73rd minute drop goal to seal a hard-fought victory.
A true grinder of a game, things looked grim for FC when Asiata was sent for 10 for a high shot – soon after which the Giants put themselves 10-4 up at the back end of the first half.
The game was sparked back into action after a long dry spell in the second half by a stunning length of the field try from Harry Bannon, which ultimately squared the score up and set up a tense finish where Hull FC got back to winning ways.
Leigh Leopards 34-6 Catalans Dragons
Leigh continued to enrich their title contending credentials with a dominant win over Catalans Dragons.
Their defence remained impressive – now second best (16 pts against) in the league behind St Helens (12 pts against) – and made the Catalans Dragons look woeful for most of the game with Alrix Da Costa the only visitor to cross.
Umyla Hanley starred for the home side with a hat-trick of tries that earned him a MOTM award.
Wakefield Trinity 6-26 St Helens RLFC
St Helens continued an extraordinary start to the season with a comfortable victory in which they exhibited great control over the game, while Wakefield did well to hold Super League’s top scorers to 26 points – even with clinical wingers like Kyle Feldt producing exquisite finishes.
Wigan Warriors 48-24 Warrington Wolves
Super League went stateside with the best game of the round for advertisement.
A historically low scoring fixture – with 15 of the last 20 meetings failing to breach 38 points – the two sides threw caution to the and put on a try fest for the Vegas crowd.
Wigan took the reigns initially with seven unanswered tries to kill the game off by the 55th minute, after which Warrington got four consolation tries of their own in the final fifteen minutes with Wigan adding another to their tally.
Since their toothless attack in Round 1, Wigan have scored 94 points in two games to rank the second-best attack in the league after rivals St Helens.
Leeds Rhinos 38-24 Castleford Tigers
No Croft, no problem for Leeds, who piled on 28 unanswered points into the early part of the second half before Castleford answered with a try – by which point the game was gone.
Leeds then extended their lead before Castleford scored three tries late on against a checked-out Leeds defence. The troubles at The Jungle continue…
