QF1 - Match Thread - England v Australia - 19/10/19 - K/O 08:15 BST

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Thought I'd get these made nice and early for a few reasons - but one being that we're already now looking ahead to the QFs with several teams having finished their group stage, so it's all heating up for the proper knockout stuff...barring any more disruption.

England



Team: Daly; Watson, Slade, Tuilagi, May; Farrell (capt), Youngs; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler; Itoje, Lawes; Curry, Underhill, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Marler, Cole, Kruis, Ludlam, Heinz, Ford, Joseph.


Australia



Team: Beale; Hodge, Petaia, Kerevi, Koroibete; Lealiifano, Genia; Alaalatoa, Latu, Sio; Arnold, Rodda; Naisarani, Hooper (c), Pocock.

Replacements: Uelese, Slipper, Tupou, Coleman, Salakaia-Loto, White, To'omua, O'Connor.



Venue: Oita
Referee: Jerome Garces
AR1: Romain Poite
AR2: Mathieu Raynal
TMO: Ben Skeen

[alfie]

Didn't expect Sinkler as the try scorer

[lostinwales]

That scream was Itoje?

[Heaf]

He's copying that Japanese woman from the earlier matches ...

[BigGee]

England have just gone up a gear since the Aus try, seems to have shaken them into life

[Gooseberry]

Huge test of character for Aus now to pick themselves up

[tigertattie]

That scream was Itoje?

He should get sent off for making noises like that. It’s clearly trying to be some weird distraction technique. It sounds like a cat in severe pain

[BigGee]

27-16 England

That is a decent lead again now

[Geordie]

I think if England are genuine contenders they need to tighten the screw now and finish this convincingly

[TightHEAD]

Guesswork again!

[kingelderfield]

Take points Ozy

[lostinwales]

I think if England are genuine contenders they need to tighten the screw now and finish this convincingly

They have had the screw pretty tight all match. Australia are very hard to keep down but the sound and fury hasn;t added up to mutch

[Heaf]

Garces is quite happy for Oz to put their hands on the ground but ping England for off feet ...

[Geordie]

Garces is quite happy for Oz to put their hands on the ground but ping England for off feet ...

Yeah its becoming a mittle frustrating now...

[owen10ozzy]

Australia are the ones turning the screw worryingly and Making sure England feel the pressure on every aspect of the game.

As much as it pains me to say it I can only see one winner ATM and amazingly it's not England....

[Heaf]

Same with scrums - he's only refereeing one side ...

[owen10ozzy]

Agreed Heaf....I'm not sure whAt scrummaging the ref is watching but I don't see englands players doing too much wrong.

[TightHEAD]

Phew

[alfie]

That was some defensive effort !

[No 7&1/2]

Decisions and runs of them can go against you. Accept. Stay calm. Defend well. I agree with the thoughts above. Aus want to turn this into an end to end game. Lineout maul. Keep it tight for ten min.

[tigertattie]

Genia off. He’s been glacial today.

[Gooseberry]

Aus had a kickable penalty 10 minutes ago ... to come away with nothing has to hurt

[Duty281]

Huge defensive win for England. Could be a crusher for the Aussies.

[Geordie]

Oooh thay was a huge passage of play

[owen10ozzy]

Huge huge stuff from England! Now whatever we do don't go kicking ball back into Australian hands for the next 5 minutes at least!!

[Heaf]

Any Oz scrum offence - reset. Any hint of an England one - pen.

[Heaf]

Come on England - try here and we can relax a tiny bit ...

[lostinwales]

Australia are the ones turning the screw worryingly and Making sure England feel the pressure on every aspect of the game.

As much as it pains me to say it I can only see one winner ATM and amazingly it's not England....

No

Running from side to side no matter how pretty doesn't win matches.

[TightHEAD]

There is a tmo

[Heaf]

No YC?

[majesticimperialman]

Australia are the ones turning the screw worryingly and Making sure England feel the pressure on every aspect of the game.

As much as it pains me to say it I can only see one winner ATM and amazingly it's not England....

Have you been to spec saver's lately?

[alfie]

Owen Farrell has his kicking boots back on today...

[lostinwales]

that side entry could even have been a penalty try

[BigGee]

30-16 England

They are not going to lose this in 15 mins surely

[Duty281]

Wow, 64 minutes before the first TMO intervention. Must be some sort of record.

14 point lead with just under 15 minutes left. Would take an incredible implosion to lose from here.

[kingelderfield]

Daly still does not convince

[Heaf]

that side entry could even have been a penalty try

Certainly a YC as he went in the side then moved round the back to pull the maul down.

[Heaf]

Finally a pen for England from a scrum ...

[Duty281]

Great to see the togetherness of this England team.

[Heaf]

Just 3 more points now ...

[No 7&1/2]

And repeat please.

[TightHEAD]

Thing of beauty

[kingelderfield]

Very good maul

[formerly known as Sam]

To the corner not the posts!

[BamBam]

Another maul would have been my call

[Heaf]

Surely that's it now ....

[Heaf]

Oz restarts have been terrible ...

[majesticimperialman]

17 Points in front and 8 minutes to go.

[No 7&1/2]

There was a point at 45 I thought game on. Bit of a slap on the back to this team. Nicely managed game.

[lostinwales]

This has panned out pretty much like every other Aus/Eng game over the last 4 years

[Duty281]

Three points makes it completely safe. Game over.

England did very well in patches, but patches won’t be enough to defeat New Zealand (if indeed it is New Zealand). Do expect a better performance next week, whoever the opposition is.

Curry easily the best player on the field today.

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