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Wigan observe Abbas Miski's effort arsenic they determination 3rd successful Super League| Salford (6) 6 |
| Try: Hellewell Goal: Sneyd |
| Wigan (8) 26 |
| Tries: Shorrocks, Farrell 2, Miski, Marshall Goals: Smith 3 |
Liam Farrell scored 2 tries arsenic Wigan bushed Salford to ascent backmost into the apical 3 of Super League.
The Warriors went into the lucifer having won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 5 league games and were up against an in-form location team.
They cracked a beardown Salford antiaircraft show successful the archetypal fractional by scoring 3 second-half tries.
Salford were without stars Brodie Croft and Andy Ackers and mislaid different arsenic Ryan Brierley suffered a caput injury.
With Warrington Wolves losing to Castleford, Salford's decision meant that 3 of the apical 4 mislaid this weekend, and the triumph placed Matty Peet's squad connected the enarthrosis of leaders Catalans Dragons.
Last week's win astatine Wolves successful the Challenge Cup quarter-final galvanised Wigan aft their mediocre tally of league form, and they hardly allowed Salford a sniff successful beforehand of a nine grounds attendance of 7,854 astatine the Salford Stadium.
Salford defended stoutly successful the archetypal fractional but Harry Smith's kicking crippled was the key, and helium sent successful a grubber for Joe Shorrocks to unfastened the scoring aft the 20-minute mark.
Ian Watson's squad forged up arsenic Ben Hellewell went implicit from Marc Sneyd's offload and Sneyd kicked the extras.
Salford's defence, however, was disrupted by the departure of Brierley for a caput wounded assessment, which helium failed, forcing Ken Sio to play afloat back, and Wigan exploited a resulting spread arsenic Jai Field raced done and sent Farrell over.
Salford struggled to get a toe-hold successful the crippled aft the break, and Wigan cutely bluffed the Reds to people different try, lining up velocity merchants Field and Bevan French connected the near of a 15-metre scrum and past moving the shot close for Abbas Miski to clang over.
Jake Wardle sent Farrell implicit for his 2nd effort and Liam Marshall broke 80 metres arsenic Salford pressed hard, to wrapper up an eighth successive triumph successful this fixture.
More follows.
Salford: Brierley, Sio, Cross, Lafai, Burgess, Atkin, Sneyd, Vuniyayawa, Bourouh, Sidlow, Watkins, Stone, Partington
Interchanges: Addy, Costello, Dupree, Hellewell (Ormondroyd)
Wigan: Field, Miski, King, Wardle, Marshall, French, Smith, Havard, O'Neill, Byrne, Shorrocks, Farrell, Smithies
Interchanges: Singleton, Hill, Mago, Cust (Nsemba)
Referee: Aaron Moore.
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