Warrington (10) 27 Tries: Gleeson 2, Westwood, Wood, Briers Goals: Briers 3 Drop goals: Bradford (4) 4 Tries: Bai

The hosts led 10-4 at half-time after tries from Martin Gleeson and Ben Westwood, plus a goal from Lee Briers, with Marcus Bai crossing for Bradford.

There was no further score until after the hour mark.

Lee Briers edged the hosts further ahead with a drop goal before they ran in late tries from Paul Wood, Gleeson with his second and Briers.

Warrington managed to take control in a frantic opening 15 minutes that saw two players sin-binned, two tries scored and another disallowed.

Bradford hooker Terry Newton was the first player shown the yellow card after just two minutes when he was mistakenly penalised for a high shot on stand-off Briers by referee Ashley Klein.

Warrington then took the lead through Gleeson before going down to 12 men themselves as Mike Wainwright was sin-binned.

Westwood crossed for a try, with Briers adding the extras, before Bai went over for Wigan's only try to make it 10-4 at the break.

The hosts needed some ferocious defence to repel Bradford before Briers edged them further ahead with his third attempt at a drop goal.

It proved the breaking point as from the next possession the Wolves moved swiftly downfield and Jon Clarke put Wood over by the posts for the decisive try.

Gleeson then broke from 20 metres to score and put the game beyond doubt and Briers, who kicked three goals, wrapped matters up with the final try in the last minute.