WIGAN ............... 16 Only a point for

Darnell McIntosh; Jermaine McGillvary, Leroy Cudjoe, Alex Mellor, Aaron Murphy; Danny Brough, Lee Gaskell; Sam Rapira, Kruise Leeming, Seb Ikahihifo, Ollie Roberts, Ukuma Ta’ai, Paul Clough.

Ryan Hinchcliffe, Shannon Wakeman, Daniel Smith, Tyler Dickinson.

Coach Rick Stone’s men more than matched their hosts, and showed tremendous character from start to finish.

The Giants were full value for their 14-10 interval advantage.

After their shut-out at Leigh nine days earlier, the visitors waited a mere three minutes to break their duck at the DW Stadium.

With Wigan pressing, Jermaine McGillvary intercepted on his own 10 metre line and raced 85 metres before being stopped just short by Anthony Gelling.

But, quick as a flash, Lee Gaskell was into the acting half-back position to plunge over for the try, converted from the touchline by Danny Brough.

The Scotland skipper should have made it 8-0 nine minutes later, but saw a straightforward penalty rebound off a post.

And the Warriors made the most of their let-off moments later when Morgan Escare finished off neatly and landed his own conversion to level the scores.

That failed to halt Huddersfield’s promising start, however, and midway through the half they were back ahead.

Again, the impressive Gaskell was at the heart of the score, timing his short pass to perfection for the onrushing Darnell McIntosh to collect and cross for his first Super League try.

Brough goaled and the lead was back up to six.

Tom Davies hit back to squeeze over in the corner for an unconverted score 10 minutes later, before Brough nudged his side four points before the break with a successful penalty.

But that lead was lost eight minutes after the restart when the ball was fed from the scrum out to the right for Gelling to show all his pace and strength to race 35 metres and cross out wide, too far out for Escare to add the extras.