England 59 Japan 14: Red Rose rub former boss Eddie Jones’ nose in the dirt to end five-match losing run

SKIPPER Jame George led the mode with a brace arsenic nine-try England romped location to extremity their five-match losing run.

Yet aft an atrocious autumn, this was small much than a belated consolation, proving thing of immoderate existent substance.

The Twickenham assemblage - officially inactive 81,000 contempt what seemed a important fig of bare greenish seats - astatine slightest had the accidental to hitch Eddie Jones’ chemoreceptor successful the dirt, the howling gale and the teeming rain.

But Steve Borthwick volition not request reminding those defeats to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa meant that the past fewer weeks person been a monolithic disappointment.

A fewer enjoyable but yet meaningless guardant steps against outgunned opponents cannot erase those caller memories and looming clashes with Ireland and France volition beryllium acold tougher tests.

Jones had privately predicted his broadside mightiness beryllium competitory for fractional an hr earlier moving retired of gas.

He over-estimated significantly.

After a scrappy start, which saw Japan scrum fractional Naoto Saito propulsion a punishment from fractional mode wide and abbreviated of the target, England scored from their archetypal superior attack.

A enactment retired was gathered astatine the tail, allowing speedy shot disconnected the back.

Marcus Smith, who kicked 7 retired of nary shots astatine extremity has been England’s stand-out performer implicit the past month.

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And his pop-up walk sent Ollie Lawrence done the middle, with Ben Earl determination connected the centre’s enarthrosis to judge the acquisition and sprint implicit the line.

Soon the pb was doubled, Sam Underhill reaching retired his close limb to interaction down - though picking up an wounded successful the process which ended his day prematurely.

Japan were already looking out-powered successful each phases, England bigger and stronger.

Smith’s punishment to the country saw George find his antheral and instrumentality the recycled ball, with Henry Slade, Lawrence and Ollie Sleightholme transforming the maul into a 12-man shove that allowed the skipper to assertion the 3rd with hardly a 4th of the crippled elapsed.

More followed earlier the interval - including a quality by the visitors, though lone aft the TMO spotted Jack van Poortliet’s knock-on astatine the basal of the ruck to regularisation retired a flying one-handed decorativeness by close wing Tommy Freeman.

But the retreating Japan battalion collapsed the resulting scrum, Smith again recovered the country and different back-augmented maul propelled George implicit the enactment erstwhile again.

Despite that, Japan responded with the champion effort of the crippled - though England should not beryllium conceding from truthful deep.

Defending is not full-back George Furbank’s spot and helium was recovered horribly wanting by the gait of Dylan Riley, who blitzed 40 yards earlier offloading to Toulouse No 9 Saito.

Not that it stemmed the tide for long.

Sleightholme soon claimed his 4th effort successful 3 autumn matches - matching the tally of his begetter Jon, successful 8 Test appearances less - with a delightful dummy earlier grabbing his ain five-yard grubber kick.

After a slack opening to the 2nd fractional had near England connected the backmost ft for 13 minutes, they abruptly upped the strength to people their sixth.

Furbank was the scorer, falling implicit the line.

But recognition needed to spell to Freeman for a superb instinctive down the backmost walk aft helium won the race to Slade’s clever kick.

That brought a debut for much-discussed prop Asher Opoku-Fordjour, with different close-range line-out bringing the next try, George’s replacement, Luke Cowan-Dickie, doing what the skipper had done doubly earlier arsenic helium rumbled over.

Back rower Kazuki Himeno took vantage of the increasing spaces to assertion a second, lone for Cowan-Dickie to unit his mode implicit erstwhile again arsenic England racked up a half-century.

Tim Roebuck past opened his planetary relationship arsenic helium waltzed done a gossamer-thin defence.

Nice numbers. But world volition instrumentality successful Dublin successful conscionable 10 weeks. 

The timepiece is already ticking. After making truthful galore withdrawals of bully volition implicit the past 3 weekends, determination is lone truthful overmuch recognition successful the bank.