LEIGH CENTURIONS 6, SALFORD CITY REDS 32: Instead of enjoying a relaxing day off, the entire Leigh Centurions' squad was back at work at 7.30am on Sunday morning.

Less than 12 hours after slipping to a humiliating six-try home defeat coach Darren Abram had his players back at Hilton Park analysing the match video to see just where they had gone so badly wrong.

A third straight Engage Super League defeat left Leigh anchored at the foot of the table - the only team without a single point - and sparked an angry response from Abram.

"The game plan was in place to beat Salford. We'd worked on it all week but for some reason the players again went away from the structures we'd laid down," complained Abram.

"Our coaching is correct. It's the players who are not carrying out instructions."

Leigh would have targeted Salford as one of their 'winnable' games but when they turned round 16-0 down all likelihood of breaking the Super League duck had virtually gone.

"That first half killed us," said Abram. "The players had been told and shown all Salford's inside plays around the rucks and they knew how to counteract them. Why they didn't do it, you'll have to ask the players."

Leigh were their own worst enemies at times, missing an astonishing 28 tackles.

After 16 minutes of deadlock Salford scored the first try when Tony Stewart punished some weak tackling by breaking from his own half before Robinson put former Wigan team-mate David Hodgson in at the corner.

Then Salford sub Mark Shipway went over for a try that Chris Charles converted. A half time deficit of 10-0 would not have been insurmountable but when Charles stepped round a flat-footed James King and Karl Fitzpatrick finished for another six-pointer, Leigh had a real mountain to climb in the second half.

They gave themselves half a chance by scoring first in the second half; Jason Kent's long, cut-out pass finding Phil Jones who sliced through for a try goaled by Neil Turley.

Turley missed a kickable penalty that would have further closed the gap but when Leigh conceded back-to-back penalties and Kevin McGuiness cut inside Turley for Salford's fourth try it was as good as over.

Leigh became increasingly ragged in the final quarter and the missed tackles stats began to mount alarmingly.

On 66 minutes Gareth Haggerty strolled through some non-existent goal-line defence for a try improved by Robinson and eight minutes from time Ian Sibbitt forced his way through more shoddy Leigh tackling for a sixth Salford try that Charles again converted.

To add to Leigh's increasing problems they lost influential half-back Jason Ferris with a knee injury in the second half and had Richard Moore placed on report for illegal use of the knees in a tackle.

Leigh: Cooper 5, Wilshere 5, Jackson 5, Jones 6, Smyth 7; Kent 6, Duffy 6; Stapleton 5, Ferris 6, McCurrie 5, Leafa 5, Wilkes 8, Knott 6. Subs used: King 5, Rowley 7, Moore 5, Turley 5.

Referee: Ronnie Laughton (Barnsley).

Attendance: 4,180.