WARRINGTON Wolves need to mount a second-half comeback against Huddersfield Giants if they are to avoid back-to-back defeats in Super League.

A piece of Jamie Ellis skill put Huddersfield ahead in what was a closely-fought half at The Halliwell Jones Stadium.

It took Giants six minutes to break the deadlock in front of their travelling fans, with Ellis showing great vision to grubber through a gap and dive on his own kick.

Craig Huby had been held up close to the Warrington line after Ryan Atkins’ knock on in an attempted interception saw possession stay with the visitors.

Luke Robinson found Ellis from dummy half, and his inventiveness did the rest. Danny Brough converted.

Wolves, having pinned the visitors deep in their own half with a high ball, thought they had hit back six minutes later when slick hands from Gareth O’Brien and Ashton Sims sent Atkins driving towards the line, but he was held up.

Paul Anderson’s Giants side were looking dangerous with each attack, but Matty Russell did well to reach an Ellis chip into the corner with Jermaine McGillvary in full flight.

At the other end Wolves pinned McGillvary behind his own try line from a tricky Daryl Clark grubber, but the hosts’ quick offloads were not always finding others in primrose and blue.

But, with a bit of Bennie Westwood magic, they managed to break the line and sustain a first period of prolonged pressure on the visitors 22 minutes in.

Another loose Sims offload reached Kevin Penny, who wriggled his way towards the line for Clark to feed Westwood from the play-the-ball but his attempts to scramble over the line fell narrowly short.

Neither side was giving up much ground, but Brough showcased his impressive kicking game with 10 minutes of the half remaining, picking out McGillvary with a diagonal left-footed reverse ball.

Ellis nearly picked out the same man with a grubber moments later, but a scampering Russell was able to see it into touch.

Wolves continued to make errors in the first half, with Ben Currie dropping a ball in the tackle and a Westwood forward pass brining another move to an end.

From there the Giants chose to edge further ahead, with Brough adding a drop goal before the hooter.