MIKE Williams admits Worcester Warriors needed to kill London Wasps off in the first-half after dominating much of the opening period at Adams Park.

Warriors looked the stronger side early on but eventually went down 32-16 after the hosts upped their game in the second period.

According to the Warriors lock, his side must take opportunities when they are there.

He said: “In the first 40 minutes, we had a lot of opportunities to kill them off and we just have to make sure that, if we get those opportunities, we take them.

“They changed something at half-time and put us on the back foot — and we couldn’t handle the pressure for the rest of the match.”

The turning point came minutes into the second-half when wing Christian Wade picked-up a kick from Charlie Davies and sprinted through to dive over the line. That stretched Wasps’ lead to 16-9 and they never looked back after that — adding two more tries courtesy of Jake Cooper-Woolley and Guy Thompson.

Williams continued: “In this game you get chances at taking tries like that and obviously Wade is a player of great calibre and dangerous at things like that.

“There’s not much you can do to defend against that. It was a moment of individual brilliance.

“They’ve got some good players in their side. We did think we could come here and win but it wasn’t to be.”

Williams and his team-mates will return to training this morning ahead of Saturday’s clash with Dean Richards’ Newcastle Falcons and the South African isn’t underestimating the magnitude of the game.

He added: “The Newcastle game is a game we need to win. We have to start getting results.”