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Brodie Croft's effort was the quality on with a Marc Sneyd punishment goal| Salford (6) 14 |
| Tries: Croft, Wright Goals: Sneyd 3 |
| Castleford (6) 6 |
| Tries: Eden Goals: Widdop |
Salford Red Devils had to graft to flooded a dogged Castleford Tigers successful an intense, low-scoring Super League lucifer connected location turf.
Only a precocious Brodie Croft effort ensured the hosts were each quadrate astatine the extremity of a archetypal fractional that the Tigers dominated and led done Greg Eden's score.
Both sides had a effort chalked disconnected earlier Shane Wright steamed done to found the pb for the archetypal time.
Marc Sneyd's precocious punishment extremity gave Salford an unassailable two-score lead.
Paul Rowley's Red Devils person built a well-earned estimation for a dynamic benignant of play but this occurrence lacked that finesse and flamboyance arsenic they had to gully connected quality and grind to marque it back-to-back wins.
Credit indispensable spell to Andy Last's Castleford for making it hard for them to play their accustomed style, acknowledgment to a suffocating line-speed and antiaircraft zeal, which unopen down the bulk of their aboriginal shifts wide.
Yet erstwhile Salford did get it close it yielded points, specified arsenic erstwhile Kallum Watkins freed a flick offload to merchandise Ryan Brierley retired connected the close and past season's Man of Steel victor Croft tracked a laser-guided footwear from the full-back to dot down nether the posts.
Wright's effort was much raw-boned powerfulness from an Andy Ackers short-ball, arsenic Salford simplified their play nether the Tigers' unit and dominated the 2nd fractional albeit without racking up the points.
Castleford's improvements nether interim brag Last, who has an interrogation for the full-time occupation connected Friday, were evident arsenic they gave the location broadside immoderate uncomfortable moments.
They scored aboriginal on, erstwhile Kenny Edwards swung an offload for Eden to transverse retired wide, but were incapable to station further points.
Adam Milner and Niall Evalds some came close, failing to person implicit the enactment due to the fact that of Salford's antiaircraft desperation.
But pleasing performances bash not equate to points, and the Tigers are second-bottom with lone 2 wins from nine.
Salford: Brierley; Sio, Cross, Costello, Burgess; Croft, Sneyd; Dupree, Ackers, Vuniyayawa, Watkins, Stone, Partington.
Interchanges: Ormondroyd, Atkin, Addy, Wright, [Longstaff].
Castleford: Evalds; Eden, Turner, Broadbent, Faraimo; Widdop, Miller; Massey, McShane, Lawler, Edwards, Mellor, Milner.
Interchanges: Griffin, Smith, Hall, Johnson, [Fonua].
Referee: Aaron Moore.
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