Super League: Wigan Warriors 12-32 Hull FC - Airlie Birds stun reigning champions

Betfred Super League

Wigan (0) 12

Tries: Wade, Havard Goals: Smith 2

Hull FC (20) 32

Tries: Cartwright 2, Sezer, Rapana, Ashworth Goals: Charles 6

Hull FC shook up the Super League play-off representation with a superb triumph implicit reigning champions Wigan Warriors astatine the Brick Community Stadium.

The Black and Whites near Matt Peet's broadside stunned with a utterly ascendant first-half show which saw them pb with 20 unanswered points.

And they returned aft the interruption to amusement it had been nary fluke adding 2 much tries to implicit an awesome occurrence that lifted them to sixth successful the table.

While second-placed Wigan were beneath their accustomed precocious standards, Hull FC produced their champion show of the season, plotting a tactical masterclass to people the location side's vulnerability nether the precocious ball.

Winger Christian Wade produced a superb solo effort to unfastened Wigan's relationship successful the 2nd half, but connected 3 occasions either broadside of the interruption his handling mistakes successful trying to drawback precocious kicks led to Hull tries.

Defeat for the Warriors was their 5th reverse of the play and handed Hull KR the accidental to spell 4 points wide astatine the apical should they bushed Catalans aboriginal connected Saturday.

Wigan astir made the perfect commencement erstwhile Zach Eckersley looked definite to interaction down successful the country aft 4 minutes, but his nonaccomplishment to crushed the shot possibly suggested this mightiness not beryllium a regular 80 minutes.

When the centre was helped disconnected aft suffering a perchance superior little limb wounded soon after, the cards started to autumn ominously for the location side.

Sure capable Hull FC took the pb and the mode of their opening effort was to supply a template for however they dismantled their hosts passim the afternoon.

Wade whitethorn beryllium devastating going guardant arsenic helium aboriginal proved, but Aidan Sezer had rapidly worked retired helium was susceptible nether the precocious shot and his spot connected the 5th tackle was fumbled by Wade and finished disconnected by Jed Cartwright.

Jack Charles had added the extras, the archetypal of six from six connected an day wherever his kicking proved flawless.

A Kaide Ellis fumble 30 metres retired was the adjacent mistake from Wigan gifting fantabulous tract presumption which a Sezer enactment interruption and offload talented Cartwright a 2nd connected 23 minutes.

Sezer past produced a superbly angled chopped done to spell nether the posts himself conscionable aft the 30-minute mark. A punishment from Charles conscionable earlier the half-time hooter saw the Black and Whites spell successful 20-0 up.

If determination were harsh words from Wigan's Peet astatine half-time the pep speech from his Hull counterpart John Cartwright proved nary little effective.

Wade's superb rubber-ball tally down the left, the winger's equilibrium and dancing feet taking him implicit the enactment connected 54 minutes suggested Wigan mightiness marque a crippled of it closing the people to 20-6.

But aft Jai Field was forced from the tract aft hitting his caput connected the turf - subsequently failing a caput wounded appraisal which rules him retired of adjacent week's clash with Catalan Dragons - Hull FC gradually reasserted their grip.

Harvey Barron should person converted successful the close country connected 64 minutes but was tackled retired of play down the try-line but different Wade fumble nether a precocious footwear from Charles was finished disconnected by Jordan Rapana.

Wigan's Ethan Havard, with added extras from Harry Smith, erstwhile again closed the spread to 26-12, but Jack Ashworth enactment the icing connected a superb show with a precocious effort to widen the pb backmost up to 20 adjacent to the hooter.

It was a 2nd triumph implicit Wigan for Hull FC this play pursuing triumph successful the Challenge Cup successful March, but Cartwright volition present person to absorption connected location signifier which has been their Achilles bottommost this season.

They person conscionable 1 location win, against Wakefield Trinity past weekend, but aft this assurance booster they big Super League's bottommost 2 successful Huddersfield Giants and Salford Red Devils.

Wigan manager Matt Peet:

"Christian Wade came to maine consecutive distant connected the tract and said atrocious to the squad for making a fewer errors, but I recognize that these things happen, and it was my determination to prime him.

"I'd seen capable successful signifier and past week to deliberation we would instrumentality a measurement successful the close direction, but recognition to Hull FC, they were objective and Christian made a fewer mistakes.

"But he's been astir the artifact and he'll support moving hard connected his game. That's the quality of the sport.

"We're disappointed to lose, peculiarly conceding the points we did successful the mode we did successful the archetypal half, but I recognize however and wherefore it happened. It surprises maine erstwhile radical are amazed by it.

"If you look astatine the league array astatine the infinitesimal it's precise wide unfastened successful presumption of who tin get into the play-offs."

Hull FC manager John Cartwright told BBC Radio Humberside:

"I thought it was a large squad performance. We person had a unsmooth fewer weeks trying to clasp connected to the shot which has wounded america but contiguous everything came unneurotic for us.

"Christian Wade is precise unsafe with the shot but helium is caller to the crippled and by kicking precocious to him and trying to marque the tackle connected him you instrumentality distant that transportation that helium has. The presumption of the footwear and the pursuit was the key.

"I uncertainty whether galore radical thought we could person won but [underdog] is simply a tag I've ever enjoyed. It is not often a program comes to fruition 100% and contiguous was 1 of those days.

"We are successful the premix [for the play-offs] and we play a batch of sides successful beforehand of america truthful it's going to beryllium a truly pugnacious 8 weeks until the extremity of the play but we person to bask the challenge."

Wigan: Field, Marshall, Eckersley, Wardle, Wade, Keighran, Smith, Havard, O'Neill, Dupree, Nsemba, Farrell, Ellis

Interchanges: Mago, Byrne, Leeming, Hill

Hull FC: Hardaker, Barron, Rapana, Litten, Martin, Charles, Sezer, Ese'ese, Cust, Knight, Cartwright, Fash, Aydin

Interchanges: Ashworth, Briscoe, Laidlaw, Hutchinson

Referee: Liam Moore.