Wakefield boss Tony Smith:
"I don't think the scoreline reflected the game but we came up a bit short.
"And St Helens, being the class team that they are, scored just before and after half-time and killed the game.
"To let them in at half-time was a big thing and it might have been a different game had we gone in at the break with a 10-6 lead."
St Helens: Wellens, Gardner, V. Anderson, Talau, Meli, Pryce, Long, Fozzard, Cunningham, Cayless, Gilmour, Sculthorpe, Hooper.
Replacements: Roby, Graham, P. Anderson, Wilkin.
Wakefield: Saxton, Halpenny, Demetriou, Atkins, Tadulala, Rooney, Jeffries, MacGillivray, Obst, Korkidas, Solomona, Wrench, Betham.
Replacements: Catic, Griffin, White, Whittle.
Referee: R Laughton (Barnsley)