Warriors win against Giants

• Match Report as Wigan Warriors win against Huddersfield Giants at the John Smith’s Stadium.
• Liam Marshall registered a hat-trick as Bevan French and Abbas Miski grabbed braces.
• FT| Huddersfield Giants 6-48 Wigan Warriors.

Match Report as Wigan Warriors win away at Huddersfield Giants in Round 11 of Betfred Super League.

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The Warriors were reduced to 12-men on the first tackle as Liam Byrne was shown a yellow card for a high tackle on Matty English. Wigan got on the scoreboard immediately as camped on their own goal line, the Giants passed the ball to Marshall to race the length of the field for the opening score. Harry Smith slotted the conversion from the touchline to make it 6-0 after 4 minutes.

Huddersfield threatened to respond shortly afterwards as English broke the line to get the ball away to Clune but he ran into traffic before the grubber kick from the Giants went straight into the hands of Abbas Miski to deny the hosts. Getting upfield, Wigan then got a penalty for a tackle without the ball 25m out which Harry Smith slotted between the sticks for 8-0 in as many minutes.

The hosts responded in the 14th minute as they broke out of their own half to see Elliot Wallis weave his way under the sticks. Connor added the extras and it was 8-6 to the Warriors.

A few sets were shared before Wigan extended their lead in the 19th minute. French collected a loose ball before being tackled on half way before popping up again in the next tackle to slip between the defence with a show and go, diving over in front of the travelling Warriors support. The conversion attempt from out wide was off target but it stood 12-6 in Wigan’s favour.

With 25 minutes played, Wigan had a great chance to extend their lead as Jai Field sent a teasing kick through which Liam Marshall made a diving effort to ground but it wasn’t to be for the Warriors. With set-for-set shared towards the end of the half, the teams went in at the break with the Warriors in the lead.

The Warriors came out firing in the second half as Liam Marshall scored after just two minutes of the restart. Jai Field produced the cut-out pass to find the winger who came back inside to cross for his second. The conversion from Harry Smith was straight through the posts to make it 18-6.

After a period of sustained pressure, the Giants defence eventually cracked as Bevan French crossed for his second of the afternoon just after the hour. A short pass from Jai Field allowing him to sneak through to score under the sticks which Smith converted for 24-6.

Straight afterwards the Warriors scored a fifth, breaking from half way with Jai Field the ball went through hands to find Liam Marshall on the wing to touch down for his hat-trick try. Harry Smith was on target with the boot again as Wigan hit 30-6.

The Warriors struck again just minutes later as hot heels from French saw him take on the line to fire an outrageous offload out of the back to find Kruise Leeming to glide over, again close to the uprights for Harry Smith to add another two points from the tee, making it 36-6.

Esan Marsters was shown a yellow card in the 72nd minute for a trip on Bevan French as the Giants were forced to see the game out with 12-men.

Abbas Miski added his name to the scoresheet with two tries in the final six minutes, both efforts were converted by Harry Smith to see Wigan to a hard-earned 48-6 victory on the road.

Huddersfield Giants: Jake Connor, Sam Halsall, Esan Marsters, Kevin Naiqama, Elliot Wallis, Tui Lolohea, Adam Clune, Oliver Wilson, Adam Milner, Matty English, Harry Rushton, Leroy Cudjoe, Luke Yates.

Interchanges: Joe Greenwood, Sam Hewitt, Ashton Golding, Sebastine Ikahihifo.

18th Player: Oliver Russell.

Tries: Wallis (14′)

Goals: Connor 1/1

Sin Bin: Marsters (72′)

Wigan Warriors: Jai Field, Abbas Miski, Adam Keighran, Jake Wardle, Liam Marshall, Bevan French, Harry Smith, Luke Thompson, Brad O’Neill, Liam Byrne, Junior Nsemba, Liam Farrell, Kaide Ellis.

Interchanges: Ethan Havard, Patrick Mago, Kruise Leeming, Tyler Dupree.

18th Player: Harvie Hill.

Tries: Marshall (2′, 42′, 64′), French (19′, 61′), Leeming (68′), Miski (74′, 78′)

Goals: Smith 8/9

Sin Bin: Byrne (1′)

Attendance: 5,334