Guy Porter scored his first two Test tries as England revived their Autumn Nations Series campaign with a dominant 52-13 win over Japan at Twickenham on Saturday.
Guy Porter and Marcus Smith celebrate a try. Image: PA GUY PORTER SCORED his first two Test tries as England revived their Autumn Nations Series campaign with a dominant 52-13 win over Japan at Twickenham on Saturday.England’s enterprising display was far removed from their turgid 30-29 loss at home to Argentina, like Japan another of their pool opponents at next year’s World Cup in France, in their Autumn Nations Series opener last weekend.
England coach Eddie Jones added: “We played more like ourselves. Last week we were too long term in our view, which was my fault and today we were focused.” “You have to take your hat off to England. It was a really good game for us in terms of experience. Our goal is the World Cup.” But England suffered a setback shortly before kick-off when Jack Nowell was ruled out by an abdominal injury, with the right wing replaced by Joe Cokanasiga.From an attacking line-out off a scrum penalty, England won possession and the ball was worked quickly from Farrell to Smith, with the No 10 sending in Steward past a flat-footed Japan defence.Then a fine counter-attacking run by Steward released Cokanasiga, who found Smith for a try in the right corner.
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