Sale Sharks remain unbeaten and top of the Zurich Premiership despite facing an onslaught from injury-stricken Wasps at Loftus Road.

Sale easily have gone behind in the fifth minute when Wasps winger Kenny Logan kicked a long-range penalty only to see his efforts sail to the left of the uprights.

The opening came in the 13th minute when Sale fly-half Charlie Hodgson slammed through a penalty kick from Wasps' 22 metre line.

Logan equalised with a 20m penalty kick just two minutes later but Sale showed their prowess as the pack tore down the left leaving centre Dan Harris to touch down the ball, allowing Hodgson to convert.

Hodgson put his side in a strong 10-point lead with a second long-range penalty kick.

With three minutes to go in the first half Logan sent another penalty the ball curling through the uprights and in injury time Logan kicked his third successful penalty, seconds after Pete Anglesea was sin-binned for killing the ball.

The Sharks went into the second half seven points adrift but came back fighting in the 41st-minute penalty when winger Mark Cueto tore down the left to place the ball over.

Prop Craig Dowd placed the ball over the line as the pack took the Sale defence by surprise to but Wasps back in contention but it was short lived as four minutes later Hodgson thumped through another close-range penalty kick from deep inside Wasps' 22.

Picking up a pass from full-back Shane Roiser, centre Fraser Waters scored a 60th-minute try which was easily converted by Logan but in the 74th minute Hodgson kicked his sixth successful penalty kick of the afternoon and then produced an 80th-minute drop goal.

In injury-time, full-back Jason Robinson completed the job with a try, converted by Hodgson.

Teams

Wasps: Green, Leota, Dowd, Beardshaw, Shaw, Jenkins, Allen, Worsley, Wood, Leek, Logan, Denney, Waters, Lewsey, Roiser.

Replacements: Molloy for Dowd (59), McCarthy for Beardshaw (76).

Not Used: Friday, Sampson, Scrase, Barratt, Lock.

Tries: Dowd, Waters.

Cons: Logan.

Pens: Logan 3.

Sale: Yates, Titterrell, Turner, Fullarton, Lines, Perelini, Pinkerton, Anglesea, Redpath, Hodgson, Hanley, Harris, Shaw, Cueto, Robinson.

Replacements: Jackman for Titterrell (80), A. Sanderson for Lines (35), Lines for Perelini (63), Baxendell for Shaw (44).

Not Used: Bramhall, Going, Wilks, Black.

Sin Bin: Anglesea (40).

Tries: Harris, Cueto, Robinson.

Cons: Hodgson 2.

Pens: Hodgson 6.

Drop Goals: Hodgson.

Att: 4,403

Ref: Tony Spreadbury (RFU).