SAINTS boss Keiron Cunningham hailed his side's performance as brilliant as they swept to their sixth league win out of six after a 32-24 win over Warrington.

It is the club's first home win over the Wolves since departing Knowsley Road.

They turned in a complete performance, but leading 30-12 with 11 minutes to go they conceded two tries in quick succession to set up a nerve-jangling last three minutes.

"There were large points of the game where we were in control but our game management just let us down a bit at the end," Cunningham said.

"All credit to Warrington, who came to play. If you give them opportunities, they can take them.

"But I'm happy with the result and we're still 100 per cent. We were absolutely brilliant until that period at the end.

"It just goes to show how resilient this team is. Sometimes they don't deserve to stop tries they do stop but that's what a great side is about.

"The boys are working really hard. I've got to be proud of them. It's an absolute pleasure to work with them. They're a great group of people who want to achieve things.

"I think it's a bit of a momentous victory because Langtree Park has been a happy hunting ground for Warrington."

Skipper Jon Wilkin put Saints in the driving seat at half time, scoring one and creating others for Joe Greenwood and Adam Swift.

"People keep telling me he can't play seven," Cunningham said. "He has done a lot of work in pre-season and now he actually looks like a seven.

"I thought he managed the side really well tonight, he was very good."

St Helens wrapped up the win with second-half tries from Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook and Tom Makinson, with Travis Burns kicking six goals from seven attempts.

The only cloud on the night's work was seeing in-form Greenwood leave the field, gingerly holding his arm.

But the injury seems not to be as bad as first feared.

"He got a bump on his elbow," he said. "We'll get him checked on Monday but the medical staff aren't too concerned, which is pleasing."

Warrington were not so lucky with prop forward Ben Evans, who is facing a lengthy spell on the sides with a ruptured hamstring.

"It's a nasty injury," Wolves coach Tony Smith said. "He's going to a local hospital but he'll probably be in London by the end of the night.

"It's been brought to the attention of the league to have a look at these type of tackles. Leg lifting, particularly single leg-lifting, is an unnecessary style of tackling and for Ben it's a pretty poor outcome."

Warrington scored tries through Daryl Clark, Mick Higham, Kevin Penny and Chris Hill.

"It ended up with an exciting finish," Smith said. "At 30-12 down, we weren't really excited about it but my boys never gave in.

"It would have been nice to snatch it, like they have done to us in the past, but I thought Saints deserved the spoils.

I thought they controlled the speed of the game better than us and their goal-line defence was very good.

"We need to get a bit more potency in our attack."