Wigan coach Shaun Wane was delighted to see his side defeat Castleford but still demanded improvement.

The Warriors ran in five tries in a 28-12 success at the DW Stadium and kept the Tigers scoreless in the second half, but Wane still wants more.

“I thought we deserved to win the game, keeping them to no points in the second half was good,” he said. “They are a class team.

“(I’m) very happy with the last two weeks, we have beaten two very good teams (Cas and Leeds). But I still think, and Daryl (Powell) will say the same, there is loads of improvement in them and loads of improvement in us.”

The victory was Wigan’s ninth of the season from 11 games but Wane is refusing to rest on his laurels.

“I still think there is room for improvement, even if we had won all 11 I would still be saying that,” he said.

“I’m never really happy with things, I always want to look at ways we can improve and I can still find a lot of ways in which we can improve. I don’t want to sound arrogant, but we can get miles better and I’ll be showing the players that.”

Two tries from Oliver Gildart and one each from Liam Farrell, George Williams and Tony Clubb set up Wigan’s first win over Castleford since a Challenge Cup quarter-final in 2016. Sam Tomkins added four goals while Cas had tries from Oliver Holmes and debutant Garry Lo, both converted by Luke Gale.

Wane was happy to finally end the losing streak and said: “They are a very good team and have beaten us the last four times, and I have absolutely no arguments that they beat us fair and square those times.

“They had been by far the better team in those four games, no question about it. No referees, no nothing, they have hammered us and they ended our season last year.

“So it was a big victory against a very good team.”

Daryl Powell felt his side panicked too much during crucial points of the game as they crashed to only their third defeat of the season.

“It was frustrating, I don’t think we showed the best of ourselves,” he said.

“I thought Wigan deserved to win, we were always chasing the game a little bit. We got back into it and then conceded that try right after half-time which was a really soft try to concede.

“I just thought we panicked a little bit and made too many errors, even when we did keep the ball we seemed to give penalties away. There was no pressure applied to Wigan, we just didn’t get any repeats that I thought we needed in the second half and our skill set was poor.”

Powell was pleased with the performance of Papua New Guinea World Cup star Lo and said: “I thought he did well, he ran hard and worked hard. He fatigued during the game but it’s his first game at this level.

“He has played a little bit at international level but it was his first Super League game and he fatigued a bit. He needs a bit of variety in his carry but I thought he worked hard and I was really pleased with his performance.”