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article_snippet.sent: Joe Burgess 10 minutes from the end to finally break the champions' resistance.
article_snippet.sent: It was a second successive defeat for Saints, who began the season under Keiron Cunningham with six wins in a row, but there was no shame in this loss.
article_snippet.sent: Keiron Cunningham was forced to turn to a new half-back pairing in Jordan Turner and Lance Hohaia after skipper Jon Wilkin joined Travis Burns on the injury list by pulling a hamstring in training while Paul Wellens, restored to the captaincy, limped off four minutes into the second half to prompt another re-shuffle, .
article_snippet.sent: Matty Smith kicked the goal to make it 6-0 and Saints had to scramble to prevent Wigan Warriors' Dom Manfredi (centre) and Wigan Warriors' Dom Manfredi (centre)
article_snippet.sent: Tom Makinson, third choice marskman in the absence of Mark Percival and Burns, was unable to add the goal and Saints suffered a blow when boom second rower Joe Greenwood, just back from an elbow injury, limped off with an ankle problem.
article_snippet.sent: The key moment came 10 minutes from the end when Saints turned the ball over 20 metres out from Saints own line after being penned back by Wigan's tigerish tackling.
article_snippet.sent: Ryan Sutton was held up on the line in the next set but the breakthrough came moments later when Burgess won the race to George Williams' grubber kick, touching the ball down with inches to spare.
article_snippet.sent: Ryan Hampshire kicked the conversion to put Ryan Hampshire side two scores in front and that completed the scoring in a pulsating encounter.