A huge Salford away following witnessed a tough game in Salfords opening fixtures of this Super league season against Warrington.
The 1st 20 minutes was full of passion from both Side's with Cory Patterson and Gaz Hock showing great aggression against a big Warrington Pack.
Salford had their chances early door Patterson went close after breaking the Warrington line, Josh Griffin picked up a loose ball and was pushed into touch with the line begging and Ben Jones Bishop spilt the ball when the overlap was in Salfords favour.
It took 27 minutes for Wire to break the deadlock ex Salford player Stefan Ratchford worked his magic sending another ex red Richie Myler's to score the opening try.
Mickey Higham then dived over from close range despite claims of a incorrect play of the ball and Ratchford converted.
Adam walne saw yellow for persistent fouling as the game got close to half time. Salford were down to 12 men and with some heroic defence kept the score to 12-0 at half time.
Salford weathered the Warrington storm early in the 2nd half and after 10 minutes Warrington found themselves down to 12 men. Ben Westwood yellow-carded for a horrible head tackle on Walne.
Salford pressed trying to take advantage of the extra man but Warrington came up with a sucker punch Atkins bagged their third try from a kick though and despite heroics by Johnson trying to keep him out scored 18-0 and Salford had a mountain to climb.
Salford continued to press and were rewarded when Jones-Bishop collected Dobson's cut out pass to go over in the corner just before the hour. 18-4
Despite some Salford pressure Evans scored for Warrington and the match was over as a contest
Salford made the scoreline more respectable with Jones-Bishop's second try two minutes from time after a good break by Rangi Chase and quick hands gave the flying winger time to go over.
Despite defeat Salford gave a battling performance for the 2000 fans that made the journey and will take confidence into the game on Thursday night against St Helens
No comments:
Post a Comment