Leeds’ first attempt got here with Salford full-back Ryan Brierley within the sin-bin for a excessive shot.
When Sneyd examined Roberts once more, the teenager stood agency and launched a Leeds counter-attack that resulted in Handley out-pacing the Salford defence to go over from his personal 10-metre line and degree the rating.
Slack Leeds defending allowed Partington to go over from appearing half-back for his first Salford attempt to put the guests forward on the break.
Leeds piled on the stress after the break and because the Salford penalty depend mounted, Handley obtained on the tip of a neat Martin grubber kick to degree it up for the third time.
Salford refused to present in and when Leeds debutant Paul Momirovski was sin-binned for a harmful deal with on Chris Atkin, Sneyd kicked Salford forward for the ultimate time.
On the different finish Amir Bourouh was sin-binned for slowing the play-the-ball, Martin kicked the penalty, and Lisone’s energy did the remaining.
Rhinos head coach Rohan Smith advised BBC Radio Leeds:
“I used to be actually happy with the gamers and the work they put in to get up to now.
“We performed robust, performed a little bit of footy at instances – I actually preferred the calmness and composure – it did not all go to plan however they seemed like they had been having fun with the battle collectively.
“It felt prefer it was a two-hour recreation – there have been lots of actually lengthy stoppages – it will’ve been good if we weren’t stopping the sport for blokes to do their boots up.
“It is an environment killer – you may go and make one other pot of tea when you’re at dwelling watching that.”
Leeds: Miller; Roberts, Newman, Momirovski, Handley; Croft, Frawley; Oledzki, Ackers, Donaldson, Goudemand, Martin, Smith.
Interchanges: Bentley, O’Connor, Lisone, Sangare.
Sin-bin: Momirovski (57).
Salford: Brierley; Hankinson, Macdonald, Lafai, Cross; Cust, Sneyd; Ormondroyd, Bourouh, Singleton, Watkins, Stone, Partington.
Interchanges: Atkin, Shorrocks, Wright, Hellewell.
Sin-bin: Brierley (13), Bourouh (64).
Referee: Aaron Moore