Former Salford winger Mason Caton-Brown scored a hat-trick against his old club as Wakefield Trinity ended the the Red Devils' seven-match winning run with a 34-24 victory at the AJ Bell Stadium.
Caton-Brown's third try three minutes from the end proved the decisive score in a frenetic finish after Salford themselves had fought back to lead 24-22 having trailed 16-0.
Hat-trick hero! â˜ï¸â˜ï¸â˜ï¸@MasonCatonBrown with three for @WTrinityRL against his old club. What a game that was! pic.twitter.com/ZRIBwmZcJV
— Betfred Super League (@SuperLeague) June 4, 2017
Wakefield then sealed their seventh straight triumph with a last-minute score from second rower James Batchelor to move joint-third in the Betfred Super League table.
Reece Lyne also weighed in with a brace for Trinity, while Liam Finn kicked five goals.
Jake Bibby (two), Craig Kopczak and Lama Tasi were the try-scorers for Salford.
What a game!
— Tinirau Arona (@t_arona) June 4, 2017
Man i wish i was out there.
Proud of all 17 of the brothers that got the job done.
Wakefield coach Chris Chester said afterwards: "There is plenty of character in this side and I thought it was a really good team performance in tough circumstances.
"We played for the full 80 minutes - even with five minutes to go we still had that belief that we could get over the top of them. On the whole we probably edged it."
Salford boss Ian Watson said: "In the first half we dominated field position, which seems a strange thing to say when you go in 16-6 down. We didn't give Wakefield a sniff of our goal line apart from our errors and invited them to score.
"Little bits of our attack were probably off in certain areas - whether that's a build up of fatigue I don't know. Wakefield took their opportunities and we didn't."
