Wigan Warriors 54 Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 4: Wigan choked the life out of us admits Trinity's Kear

The Warriors romped into a 32-0 interval lead after half-a-dozen tries, with Pat Richards and Amos Roberts scoring two apiece.

The visitors fought back with three tries in 10 minutes but the early-season pacesetters eased home to their ninth victory from 10 so far.

Wigan finished with 10 tries as Liam Farrell crossed on debut while Goulding and Richards each completed hat-tricks, with Richards finishing with a 26-point haul.

However, the match was marred by a suspected broken leg for Wigan full-back Roberts while scoring his second try – and 12th in 10 games.

Wakefield coach John Kear admitted his side were outclassed but voiced his frustration at Wigan's tactics around the ruck.

"We were poor," he said. "You just have to look at the scoreboard and you don't have to be a technical genius to realise they walloped us.

"They choked the life out of us and completely controlled the first half, so good on them.

"They were superb, they strangled us out of the game, but it (the atmosphere) was like a cathedral.

"It got exciting in the second half when we made it a bit of a contest and the Wigan crowd enjoyed that.

"All credit to Wigan because they did control it, but I thought it was like watching paint dry."

The Wildcats, who had made one change following their 19-6 win over Castleford, with Dale Ferguson in for Jason Demetriou, were caught cold as Wigan opened the scoring with just 90 seconds on the clock.

Joel Tomkins and Roberts worked the ball wide for Goulding to streak down the right, and the Wigan winger kicked back inside for Roberts to touch down.

The Warriors produced more slick handling five minutes later as Sam Tomkins and Sean O'Loughlin found Phil Bailey, whose fine long pass sent Richards over.

Wakefield regrouped but Leuluai then jinked through and Sam Tomkins's chip to the corner forced Damien Blanch to concede a goal-line drop-out.

Tomkins almost crossed by the posts after two fine side-steps but Wigan then sent it wide and Roberts's cut-out pass sent Richards over again.

Successive Wigan penalties allowed Wakefield to put pressure on the hosts' line for the first time and Richard Moore's grubber forced a drop-out from Martin Gleeson.

Joel Tomkins's try opened up a 22-0 lead with 25 minutes gone.

The in-form Warriors forward broke an attempted tackle by Darryl Millard then sneaked round Dale Morton on halfway and outwitted full-back Matt Blaymire to finish off.

Roberts topped that 10 minutes later, bursting past Shane Tronc and Paul King before holding off another two attempted tackles to score.

But in withstanding that final tackle to get the ball down, Roberts clattered into one of the posts and was stretchered off after a lengthy stoppage.

Wigan claimed another try just before the break as Paul Deacon's chip to the corner came off Morton for Goulding to touch down.

Then Goulding scored again just two minutes after the restart after Deacon put O'Loughlin through.

The Wildcats replied in the 45th minute with Blanch taking Richards's pass to run in an 80-metre interception try for the visitors.

Six minutes later the visitors further reduced the deficit with Blaymire crossing from Paul Cooke's offload.

A Wigan penalty then allowed Wakefield to keep the pressure on and Blaymire crashed over from another Cooke pass in the 55th minute. Farrell barged his way over to keep Wigan well clear before Deacon kicked for Richards to claim his 13th try of the season.

Millard was then sin-binned late on before Goulding also claimed a third try and his 11th in seven games.

Wigan Warriors: Roberts, Goulding, Gleeson, Bailey, Richards, S. Tomkins, Leuluai, Fielden, McIlorum, Coley, Mossop, J. Tomkins, O'Loughlin. Substitutes: Prescott, Deacon, O'Carroll, Farrell.

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats: Blaymire, Blanch, Murphy, Millard, Morton, Cooke, Jeffries, Korkidas, Obst, Moore, Ferguson, Kirmond, Leo-Latu. Substitutes: Tronc, Henderson, Morrison, King.

Referee: R Silverwood (Dewsbury).