Huddersfield Giants vs Warrington Wolves Prediction: Is Gagai the guy?

Warrington are at Huddersfield on Saturday night looking to maintain their top-four momentum having been leapfrogged by champions Hull KR on Thursday night. (Kick-off 20:00 BST)

The Wolves are a formidable outfit in this season's Betfred Super League, and are big favourites to down the coach-less Giants in West Yorkshire. 

My Huddersfield Giants vs Warrington Wolves predictions follow with the latest match odds from Betfred and full team news.

Huddersfield Giants vs Warrington Wolves Odds

The Giants are 3/1 to win this one, with the Wire the heavy 2/7 favourites. A draw can be backed at 16/1, while there are plenty of other Price Boosts you can find on the link above.

Team News

Warrington won well against Wigan last week and head coach Sam Burgess makes two changes to his initial 21-man squad for this potentially tricky short trip across the M62.

The good news sees the return of Josh Smith, who had been in scintillating try-scoring form before a calf injury sidelined him last month. The Aussie's return is a timely boost given the latest injury to the unfortunate Cai Taylor-Wray - his third injury of the season so far. The talented youngster is one of the emerging talents of this sport but will now be out for six weeks as he undergoes ankle surgery.

So Smith for Taylor-Wray is the enforced change, while young winger Lachlan Webster is brought in as cover and he replaces forward Ewan Smith. Talisman George WIlliams remains out long term, with young Ewan Irwin given his chance in the halves alongside Marc Sneyd.

Prop Tof Sipley returned to the squad from injury last week but the general feeling was that he was ahead of schedule, and so it proved as he was not risked. Sipley is in the squad again and I'm told he has a stronger chance of featuring this week.

Huddersfield remain without a head coach since the sacking of club great Luke Robinson. The Giants lost at Leigh last week and make one change this week, with interim boss Liam Finn bringing in former Warrington man Connor Wrench. The former Wolves academy star made a shock retirement from the sport at age 23 last summer but has been tempted back in and is now in line to play against his former club. Wrench replaces England prop Tom Burgess, who is denied the chance of playing against his brother's team.

Rugby League Odds

Handicap 3-Way Alternative 1 Warrington Wolves -14 @ 13/10

Heading to the Halliwell Jones Stadium last week I wrote 'these are the kind of games that will tell us how genuine Warrington's silverware aspirations are'.

The response was strong, a confident 23-6 win against an admittedly out of sorts former champion Warriors. Warrington are keeping pace with Leeds and St Helens at the top, with KR now joining the party too. So this week feels a must-win type of game and I have few concerns that the Wire will see it through.

The fixture list has been pretty kind to the Wolves so far in terms of how many games they have had at home. The one away trip in April brought a defeat at Catalans and the previous away day at Leeds in March also brought defeat. So the Wolves rise has been built largely on home comforts and they need to show up in Huddersfield to ensure it is not a third straight loss on the road.

The Giants have shown signs of life since Robinson's departure of head coach, thanks largely to the try-scoring of our regular selection Jacob Gagai. Two wins in a row followed the coaching change, but there have been two straight losses since. But Huddersfield are scoring points - 72 in the last three games in which two yielded defeats. So this could be an entertaining game.

Huddersfield actually won this fixture last year but I feel Wire are a far different beast in 2026. The last three meetings have been reasonably tight - that Giants win by 13 being the biggest margin of victory.

The handicap gives Huddersfield a 10-point start with Betfred and I feel that is about right given how both teams have been scoring. I do have the Wolves to win this by at least a couple of scores though given their quality across the board, and leave Huddersfield struggling at the wrong end of the table.

Jacob Gagai Anytime Tryscorer @ 7/4

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