Leeds Rhinos vs Salford Red Devils 21/04/14

Following Friday's emphatic win against Bradford Bulls and with only a couple of days rest between both games, Rhinos welcomed Salford Red Devils to Headingley Carnegie. The game started well in Leeds' favour and it wasn't long before Leeds took the lead and again the captain Kevin Sinfield took centre stage after fine work from Mitch Achurch allowed him the space and time to cross the line. He then converted his own try.

However Salford didn't come to be turned over and they took their fair share of possession which meant Leeds had to defend superbly. But they couldn't stop Logan Tomkins going over. Jake Mullaney missed the conversion attempt and it meant Leeds retained their narrow lead. They kept this right through to half-time.

Leeds and Salford started the second half in a similar vein to the first but Leeds proved to be the more clinical. This was to be shown when Ben Jones-Bishop ran 80m down the field but as he was being tackled he offloaded to Zak Hardaker who then finished with the end product. Sir Kev once again converted.

 














Not long afterwards, Rob Burrow increased the score-line thanks to good work from Joel Moon, thus allowing Rob to cross the line. Sir Kev made sure of the conversion attempt. Leeds didn't stop there with the try-scoring and to make sure of the result,  Ben Jones-Bishop,Ryan Hall and Tom Briscoe all scored tries to give Leeds a 32-4 win. Kev converted Bishop's try but couldn't quite kick Hall's and Briscoe's. Another resounding win for the Rhinos as we march on in the season.
 

 

Man of the Match - Sir Kev he's managed to hit the try-scoring quite a bit this season and despite not getting the last two conversion attempts, his kicking is still very clinical.

Injury doubts - Danny McGuire did appear to have a cut to his head after defending an Salford onslaught but he came on in the last ten mins of the game so he should be okay for Saturday.

Until next time......