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Wolves cement top spot with bruising win at Wigan

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WARRINGTON Wolves cemented top spot with a bruising 16-28 victory away at second placed Wigan Warriors.

But instead of celebrating the victory Head of Coaching Tony Smith said after the game that he was more concerned about his players than the win, after losing Chris Sandow and Rhys Evans through injury.

Warrington’s first-half performance laid the platform leading 22-4 at the break through tries from Ben Currie, Tom Lineham, Kevin Penny and Stefan Ratchford, with Dom Manfredi replying for the host.

Winger Manfredi completed his hat-trick with a second-half double as Wigan fought back after the break with Ryan Atkins scoring for the Wolves to seal the points.

It was Warrington’s first win in five at the DW Stadium as they cemented their place at the top of the table, winning their second top of the table clash of the season, after previously beating Widnes on Good Friday.

Atkins’ try was his fourth in as many games, but Warrington lost two key personnel in Sandow, hamstring and Evans with a shoulder problem.

After the game Smith said : “I couldn’t care less if Wigan were going to win it, I was more worried about my players. It was tough, we couldn’t rotate them after losing those two players in the first half.

“We had a number of players who shouldn’t have been on there after a while with some of the knocks they took.

“I saw the determination of the players – they weren’t going to let it slip. Their defence was enormous tonight.”

Wigan coach Shaun Wane said he was proud of his team’s performance against a strong Warrington team, who he admitted were the best team and deserved to win.

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Wigan Warriors: Sarginson; Manfredi, Higginson, Gildart, Charnley; O’Loughlin, Smith, Mossop, Powell, Clubb, J. Tomkins, Farrell, Burke.

Subs: Tautai, Sutton, Isa, Gregson.

Warrington: Russell; Penny, R. Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Gidley, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westwood.

Subs: Ratchford, Westerman, G. King, Cox.


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