A sluggish England outlast a bruising, brilliant Samoa performance to head to the quarter-finals with a full house of Pool D wins.
A sluggish England outlasted a bruising, brilliant Samoa performance to head to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals with a full house of Pool D wins.However, his team's credentials as possible contenders for the title will have been badly dented as they were pushed all the way by a team whose only previous tournament win came against Chile.
The underdogs led 17-8 going into the second half and could have been further clear, seeing a third try ruled out for the faintest of knock-ons. Samoa could yet have snatched a sucker-punch victory as they swept upfield only to spill forward five metres short in the penultimate play of the game.Paia'aua; Ah Wong, Manu, Toala, Fomai; Sopoaga, Taumateine; Jordan Lay, Malolo, Alaalatoa, Slade, Alainu'u'ese, McFarland, Lee, Luatua.Owen Farrell may have tragically got Jonny Wilkinsons record, but that was an absolutely abysmal performance all round from him, hopeless. George Ford starts all day long for me ahead of Farrell.
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