England v Argentina, 26 November

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ENGLAND v ARGENTINA
26 November 2016
14:30 GMT (UTC+0)
Twickenham Stadium, London

Live on Sky Sports 1

Referee: Pascal Gauzère (France)
Assistant Referees: Marius Mitrea (Italy), Ian Davies (Wales)
TMO: Gareth Simmonds (Wales)

A. Head to Head

19 Played 19
14 Won 4
1 Drawn 1
4 Lost 14
488 Points 282

B. Recent Form

9 November 2013
Twickenham, London
31 – 12 to England

15 June 2013
Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires
26 – 51 to England

8 June 2013
Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena, Salta
3 – 32 to England

10 September 2011
Otago Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand
13 – 9 to England

14 November 2009
Twickenham, London
16 – 9 to England

13 June 2009
Padre Ernesto Martearena, Salta
24 – 22 to Argentina

6 June 2009
Old Trafford, Manchester
37 – 15 to England

11 November 2006
Twickenham, London
18 – 25 to Argentina

C. Teams

ENGLAND 

15 Mike Brown, 14 Jonny May, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Owen Farrell, 11 Elliot Daly, 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Chris Robshaw, 5 George Kruis, 4 Courtney Lawes, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Mako Vunipola

Replacements: 16 Jamie George, 17 Joe Marler, 18 Kyle Sinckler, 19 Charlie Ewels, 20 Teimana Harrison,, 21 Danny Care, 22 Ben Te’o, 23 Henry Slade

ARGENTINA

15 Joaquín Tuculet, 14 Matías Orlando, 13 Matías Moroni, 12 Santiago González Iglesias, 11 Santiago Cordero, 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 9 Tomás Cubelli, 8 Leonardo Senatore, 7 Javier Ortega Desio, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Matías Alemanno, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Ramiro Herrera, 2 Agustín Creevy (c), 1 Lucas Noguera

Replacements: 16 Julián Montoya, 17 Santiago García Botta, 18 Enrique Pieretto, 19 Facundo Isa, 20 Tomas Lezana, 21 Martin Landajo, 22 Jerónimo De la Fuente, 23 Juan Pablo Estelles

trebellbobaggins wrote:he is allowing so many Arg penalties yet no cards.  

They'll have someone in the bin soon

Can we swap the TJ for the ref as he seems to know what's going on more - twice he's had to step in to give pens.

Lol

about time he actually picked them up on their cheating.

Farrells kicking has gone a bit of boil

Good decisions from the ref there for the penalty try. Liked that he didn't use the tmo.

Billy V and Robshaw are playing like men possessed!!!!!

I think Argentina will be very disappointed with their first half hour, not playing smart rugby.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Billy V and Robshaw are playing like men possessed!!!!!

So good to see!

First scrum at 35 mins - unusual.

Not good...

England are losing so many good players ahead of the Aussie game.  Billy V now by the looks of it.  It's going to a serious test of Engs depth (As is this to be fair.). Very worrying.  I think the Aussies will have to be big favourites to get a small amount of revenge.

Harrison, we'll lose now

He runs like bambi

Eek Billy looks in trouble. He's been immense today, never seen him looking in such good shape either.

That's a massive blow.

Harrison needs an immense game!!!

Surprised Wood hasn't gone to 8? Does Harrison play there much?

We could really do with not losing someone to the bin right now...

Harrison has made that pack so weak.

my goodness they got on the wrong side of this ref today.

Am I the only one with no confidence in Harrison?

Yellow to Cole now ouch

In that position he needs to be shoving and let the flankers keep their eyes up to make the tackles.

he's totally out of his depth Geordie.  ten minutes two men down.  the writing is on the wall.

sadly I think that try could be the turning point. we lost a man then had to replace our best player with a poor one.

Well, game on I suppose.

Jones has his work cut out now. has to go find some players before next week for a start.

No scrums for 35 minutes then 10 minutes straight of them.

Nah regroup at half time.

Sort it out. Is Hughes in the bench?

Smash these cheating dirty argie bast:#ds!!!!!!

Unless Harrison has a blinder second half he won't wear the white shirt again!

dog farts

nathan wrote:

mid_gen wrote:Red for me, he's landed on his head.

I thought it was his shoulder

That's because it was ... Garces needs a lesson in biology ... arm first then shoulder

Hughes isn't on bench. Any other backdown/2nd row on bench?!

I really wanted Harrison to do well. But he looks very much out of his depth. Seems a poor bench choice.

I think he's only there because Eng have so many injuries.

Harrison was poor last week as I said at the time. Why is Hughes not on the bench?

I don't know how the ref was so sure about the grounding on their try from his angle. Harrison had an arm under it.

trebellbobaggins wrote:my goodness they got on the wrong side of this ref today.

Really? i'd say this ref has gone out of his way not to penalize england. That 5 mins of scrum messing would have been a yellow and a penalty try 8 time out of 10.

Heaf wrote:

nathan wrote:

mid_gen wrote:Red for me, he's landed on his head.

I thought it was his shoulder

That's because it was ... Garces needs a lesson in biology ... arm first then shoulder

And by the way since when has pulling a player back by the arm not been a penalty offence?  But for the TJ he would have also let Argentina get away with taking a man out in the air and a chop tackle with no arms ...

Harrison is nowhere near this level, what was he doing?!??!!

This is going to take some doing in the 2nd.

wolfball wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:my goodness they got on the wrong side of this ref today.

Really? i'd say this ref has gone out of his way not to penalize england. That 5 mins of scrum messing would have been a yellow and a penalty try 8 time out of 10.

Couldn't be a PT from that ...

Robshaw held back in that try too

wolfball wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:my goodness they got on the wrong side of this ref today.

Really? i'd say this ref has gone out of his way not to penalize england. That 5 mins of scrum messing would have been a yellow and a penalty try 8 time out of 10.

he's been ignoring an awful lot from Arg.

Ewels heart will be beating fast! A lot on him when he comes on

that was too easy. 2 men down and sadly the space will mean a stuffing now.

just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

trebellbobaggins wrote:just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

You are getting ahead of yourself, why not worry about this game first huh

nathan wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

You are getting ahead of yourself, why not worry about this game first huh

because I fear Bill V gone and the red card have gifted this to Arg (who look like a poor team in a fair match) and I worry more about this weaker eng side coping with a great Aussie team,

trebellbobaggins wrote:

nathan wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

You are getting ahead of yourself, why not worry about this game first huh

because I fear Bill V gone and the red card have gifted this to Arg (who look like a poor team in a fair match) and I worry more about this weaker eng side coping with a great Aussie team,

Well go and take a Valium or something, have some hope!

trebellbobaggins wrote:

nathan wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

You are getting ahead of yourself, why not worry about this game first huh

because I fear Bill V gone and the red card have gifted this to Arg (who look like a poor team in a fair match) and I worry more about this weaker eng side coping with a great Aussie team,

Regardless of the outcome of this one, England will be right pished off and will hammer the Aussies back to Botany Bay.

That would be nice Dr! Just what the Dr ordered.

doctor_grey wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:

nathan wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:just worries me what the class of Australia will do to this team next week.

You are getting ahead of yourself, why not worry about this game first huh

because I fear Bill V gone and the red card have gifted this to Arg (who look like a poor team in a fair match) and I worry more about this weaker eng side coping with a great Aussie team,

Regardless of the outcome of this one, England will be right pished off and will hammer the Aussies back to Botany Bay.

I agree. This will blow all feelings of complacency out of this team either way. The big worry now is just Billy. Our chief OZ tormentors were Haskell, Itoje, Billy and Farrell, and we could be left with only Farrell left for next week

OF missing isn't great but Harrison then knocking on just seems to sum him up today.