Good teams find a way to win games when they are not at their best but the worry for Wakefield is that, even with the new Super League season barely a month old, they are already finding ways to lose games they could easily win.
Their first victory of 2023 felt tantalisingly within reach on several occasions here. With Salford visibly off-colour and some way from the form which propelled them to within a game of the Grand Final last season, this was a match that felt there for the taking for Wakefield.
Unfortunately, it ended up with a result and an outcome that is starting to feel painfully familiar for Trinity supporters, even this early in the season.
When Marc Sneyd kicked Salford ahead by a point in the final six minutes, you felt that chance had passed for Trinity. Yet they regrouped, recomposed themselves and forced golden-point extra time through the boot of their own mercurial scrum-half Mason Lino.