Super League: Salford Red Devils 12-22 Wakefield Trinity

Kelepi Tanginoa (right) scored his first try of the season in Wakefield's win at Salford

Last year's Grand Finalists Salford continued their poor start to the season by losing at home to Wakefield.

The Red Devils twice led through Tui Lolohea's first-half solo try and Ken Sio's score early in the second half.

But Trinity responded on each occasion through Max Jowitt and Tom Johnstone before tries from Bill Tupou and Kelepi Tanginoa sealed victory for Wakefield.

Sio scored a late consolation but it was not enough to prevent Salford slipping to a third successive defeat.

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Salford were last season's surprise packages but have now won just once in five attempts this campaign - and that was a narrow victory over newly-promoted Toronto Wolfpack.

The Canadian newcomers are one of only two sides below the 10th-placed Red Devils - Hull KR being the other - as Salford continue to miss Man of Steel Jackson Hastings after his winter departure to Wigan.

They were on the back foot early on against Trinity and Lolohea's try came against the run of play, although he missed the conversion.

Indeed, the Tongan was off target with all three goal of his attempts and that, combined with Jowitt's relative accuracy with the boot for Wakefield, went a long way toward deciding the outcome.

Jowitt goaled his own try to hand Trinity a narrow lead at the interval but Sio went over in the corner to reward early Salford second-half pressure and restore the hosts' lead at 8-6.

The next 20 minutes were decisive as Wakefield scored three times without reply through Johnstone, Tupou and Tanginoa, with Jowitt adding the extras for two, including one excellent touchline kick.

Sio reduced the deficit but Wakefield put aside a growing injury list - with Joe Arundel out for the season and Ryan Hampshire also sidelined - to record a second win of the campaign.

Salford coach Ian Watson:

"We didn't play well at all, we were miles off. We got a rude awakening and we need to smarten up pretty quickly.

"Sometimes you can get too above your station of where you think you are as a group because of previous successes.

"Potentially it's a hangover from last season. Maybe we think we're better than what we are.

"We need to get some stuff sorted out pretty quickly and focus on what we were good at last year, which is being a team working together, not individuals trying to do well."

Wakefield coach Chris Chester:

"I thought we were good value today. It was a bit of a scrappy game, certainly in that first 40 minutes. But in that second half we completed at 93 or 94 per cent.

"That kind of ball control generally wins you games. We were excellent in that second half and that probably needs to be a minimum standard now moving forward.

"We were hard to beat and hard to break down. I'm delighted we've come here and won.

"It's always a tough place to come. We've not had a great deal of success here, certainly in the last couple of years."

Salford: Evalds; Sio, Welham, Sarginson, Williams; Lolohea, Atkin; Mossop, Jones, Dudson, Pauli, Roberts, Yates.

Interchanges: Lussick, Lannon, Ikahihifo, Flanagan.

Wakefield: Navarrete, K Wood, Kopczak, Pitts, Ashurst, Westerman, Miller, Jowitt, Johnstone, Atkins, Lyne, Tupou, A Walker.

Interchanges: J Wood, Green, Tanginoa, Crowther.

Referee: Liam Moore (RFL)