First Utility Super League
Salford (8) 14
Tries: Tomkins, Lui Goals: O'Brien, Dobson 2
Leeds (0) 10
Tries: Galloway, Golding Goals: Hardaker
Salford Red Devils hung on to consign Leeds Rhinos to an eighth defeat in 10 Super League games this season.

It left the struggling champions second bottom of the table, while Salford move into seventh place.

The home side led 14-0 with converted tries from Logan Tomkins and Robert Lui, supplemented by a Michael Dobson penalty goal with seven minutes to go.

However, late scores by Keith Galloway and Ashton Golding for the Rhinos set up a nervy finale.

It looked for much of the game as though Leeds would run out point-less for the first time since September 1998, but their late tries gave the game a scoreline that belied the home side's dominance.

While the focus will undoubtedly centre on lacklustre Leeds, and their inability to find form in 2016, Salford deserved immense credit for their suffocating defence and hard-running.

Leeds had field position and possession, but failed to capitalise despite the presence of key personnel such as playmaker Danny McGuire and Zak Hardaker - last season's Man of Steel.

Ian Watson's Red Devils weathered big pressure to go ahead when Tomkins scooted in for the opening try, backed up shortly after with Dobson's penalty goal for an 8-0 half-way lead.

Half-back Lui added the second try of the game when he dummied through soft cover early in the second half.

Leeds poured forward in desperation, and had tries chalked off before Galloway battered his way across to give Brian McDermott's side a chink of light.

Golding's score ramped up the tension, but Hardaker missed the conversion and time ticked down as Salford clung to the points.

Salford: O'Brien; Carney, Sau, J. Griffin, Evalds; Lui, Dobson; Kopczak, Tomkins, G. Griffin, Murdoch, Jones, Flanagan.

Replacements: Wood, A. Walne, Krasniqi, J. Walne.

Leeds: Hardaker; Golding, Watkins, Sutcliffe, Handley; McGuire, Burrow; Singleton, Falloon, Garbutt, Achurch, Ablett, Jones-Buchanan.

Replacements: Galloway, Mullally, Baldwinson, Lilley.

Referee: Phil Bentham (RFL)
Club information
Full name Salford Red Devils
Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s) The Red Devils
Website Official site
Founded 1873; 143 years ago
Current details
Ground(s)
AJ Bell Stadium (12,000), since 2012
The Willows, 1901-2011
New Barnes 1878-1901
Chairman Marwan Koukash
Head Coach Ian Watson
Competition Super League
2015 season 11th
Rugby football current event.png Current season
Salford Red Devils are a professional rugby league club in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, who play in the Super League. Formed in 1873, they have won six Championships and one Challenge Cup. Their home ground since 2012 has been the AJ Bell Stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell, before which they played at The Willows in Weaste. Before 1995, the club was known simply as Salford, from 1995-98 Salford Reds and from 1999-2013 Salford City Reds.

On a 1934 tour to France, the press described the team as playing like devils, hence their nickname
Full name Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s) The Loiners
The Rhinos
Founded 1870; 146 years ago
Ground Headingley Stadium,
Headingley, Leeds
Capacity 21,500
Owner Leeds Rugby
Chairman Paul Caddick
Head coach Brian McDermott
League Super League
2015 1st, Champions
Website Club home page
Current season
Leeds Rhinos (known as Leeds until the end of the 1996 season, and also historically known as the Loiners making reference to the name for a native of Leeds, a Loiner) are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, where they are the current Super League Leaders and Champions.

In 1895, Leeds were one of twenty-two rugby clubs which broke away from the Rugby Football Union and formed what is now the Rugby Football League. Leeds joined the Super League in 1996 and became Leeds Rhinos in 1997.[1] The club is owned by the same company that owns Leeds Carnegie rugby union team.

Leeds have won thirteen Challenge Cups, ten League championships and three World Club Challenge titles