Wakefield: (13) 23
Tries: Fox 2, Obst 2
Drops: Rooney
Goals: Rooney 3

Huddersfield: (0) 24
Tries: Thorman, Wild, Snitch, Elford
Goals: Thorman 4

Huddersfield recovered from a poor first half to edge past Wakefield in a closely-fought encounter.

Two Peter Fox tries and two goals and a drop goal from Jamie Rooney had Wakefield 13-0 up by the break.

But the second half belonged to the Giants with Chris Thorman, Stephen Wild, Steve Snitch and Shane Elford going over in the space of 13 minutes.

Sam Obst scored two late tries to ensure a nervous climax but the visitors held on for a precious win.

"I think this is the most disappointed I've been because they've shown great character in some instances, but to end up losing after being 13-0 up at half-time is very, very disappointing.

"We were totally dominant in the first half and the scoreline reflected that, but we seemed to have left the cue on the rack for 20 minutes after the break and when we realised we had a game on it was too late.

"We came back at the end and may have had chances to snatch it, but in those 20 minutes we took our foot off the accelerator. If you did that at this level you get caned and that's exactly what happened."

"I had seen enough encouraging signs in the first half to know what we were capable of.

"We just needed to score first in the second half and after we did that we got some momentum and finished off some chances, which we've not been doing recently.

"This was victory for togetherness, belief and thinking at half-time that we could do it - and we did."

Wakefield: Blaymire, Fox, Demetriou, Atkins, White, Rooney, Jeffries, Watene, Obst, Bibey, Henderson, MacGillivray, Ferres.
Replacements: Sculthorpe, Catic, Latu, Moore.

Huddersfield: Thorman, Reilly, Nero, Elford, Jensen, Brown, Paul, Griffin, Hudson, Mason, Lolesi, Raleigh, Wild.
Replacements: Crabtree, Drew, Skandalis, Snitch.

Referee: S Ganson (St Helens)