England vs Japan: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds for rugby today

England reason their autumn internationals against Japan astatine Twickenham.

Steve Borthwick's broadside are bidding to extremity a frustrating run connected a affirmative enactment aft defeats against New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

It is the archetypal clip since 2018 that England person mislaid 5 successful a enactment and archetypal clip since 2006 they person dropped 3 consecutive astatine home.

While Borthwick remains assured that helium retains the afloat enactment and backing of the RFU, specified a dismal series extending against what is surely connected insubstantial the easiest crippled of the autumn would spot superior questions surely asked of his future.

Japan person ne'er antecedently beaten England but volition anticipation to provender disconnected their caller struggles connected Sunday, with Eddie Jones’ beingness arsenic caput manager of the Brave Blossoms adding different immense subplot to the game.

It is the archetypal clip that the erstwhile long-serving England brag has been backmost to Twickenham since his sacking aft 7 years successful complaint successful December 2022, and his instrumentality comes pursuing beardown caller disapproval and accusations regarding his enactment made successful a serialised upcoming memoir from ex-England scrum-half Danny Care.

Jones has been backmost successful complaint of Japan for astir a twelvemonth present pursuing a disastrous 2nd stint with his autochthonal Australia that ended successful his resignation aft little than 12 months pursuing their nonaccomplishment to beforehand beyond the excavation signifier of the Rugby World Cup for the archetypal clip ever.

England bushed an experimental Japan broadside 52-17 successful Tokyo backmost successful June to lukewarm up for their summertime circuit of New Zealand, with the Brave Blossoms besides edged retired by Georgia and beaten by Italy earlier dense defeats by the All Blacks and France to unfastened the autumn were followed by a 36-20 triumph implicit Uruguay past week that came contempt a second-half reddish card.

England vs Japan takes spot connected Sunday November 24, 2024 astatine Allianz Stadium Twickenham, successful south-west London. Kick-off is scheduled for 4:10pm GMT, which is 1:10am successful the aboriginal hours of Monday greeting successful Japan.

It is the last lucifer of England’s four-game autumn bid aft defeats by New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

TV channel: In the UK, England vs Japan is being broadcast unrecorded connected TNT Sports 1, with sum opening astatine 3:45pm GMT - aft Scotland’s gathering with Australia astatine Murrayfield has concluded.

Live stream: TNT Sports subscribers tin besides drawback the enactment unrecorded online via the Discovery+ website and app.

Live blog: Follow each the enactment connected matchday with Standard Sport’s live blog, featuring investigation from Simon Collings astatine Twickenham.

England person welcomed backmost Tom Curry this week aft helium suffered his 2nd concussion of the play against Australia and missed the decision by the Springboks.

He replaced Charlie Ewels successful Borthwick’s squad, portion the injured Elliot Daly made mode for Harlequins helping Cadan Murley, who starred with 2 tries arsenic England ‘A’ bushed their Australian counterparts 38-17 astatine The Stoop past weekend.

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has not been cleared to instrumentality from his ain concussion sustained against the Wallabies and volition miss retired again.

Borthwick made 4 changes against South Africa, with Sam Underhill and Ollie Sleightholme replacing Curry and Feyi-Waboso, and Jack van Poortvliet and Freddie Steward preferred to Ben Spencer and George Furbank astatine scrum-half and full-back respectively.

This week, Curry and Furbank some return, with Chandler Cunningham-South dropping to the seat arsenic Curry goes to blindside flanker and Steward is omitted entirely. Van Poortvliet and Sleightholme some support their places.

20-year-old Sale prop Asher Opoku-Fordjour is poised to marque his Test debut disconnected the seat arsenic seasoned Dan Cole drops out, portion George Ford is replaced by Fin Smith arsenic fly-half cover.

Japan volition beryllium without New Zealand-born fastener Warner Dearns, whose reddish paper for a precocious tackle against Uruguay was upheld erstwhile helium appeared earlier an autarkic disciplinary committee connected Wednesday. Dearns was handed a four-match suspension, meaning helium volition play nary portion astatine Twickenham.

England XV: Furbank; Freeman, Lawrence, Slade, Sleightholme; M Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, George (c), Stuart; Itoje, Martin; T Curry, Underhill, Earl

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Baxter, Opoku-Fordjour, Isiekwe, Cunningham-South, Randall, F Smith, Roebuck

Japan XV: Matsunaga; Osada, Riley, Fifita, Naikabula; McCurran, Saito (c); Okabe, Harada, Takeuchi; Waqa, Uluiviti; Shimokawa, Himeno, Makisi

Replacements: Lee, Morikawa, Tamefusa, Akiyama, Tatafu, Gunter, Fujiwara, Kajimura

As mentioned, Japan person ne'er beaten England successful men’s rugby national and mislaid 52-17 successful the past gathering betwixt the 2 sides successful Tokyo implicit the summer.

England person won each erstwhile 10 matches, including a 34-12 triumph successful the excavation signifier of past year’s World Cup successful France and a 52-13 thrashing astatine Twickenham successful November 2022. They had to travel from down to triumph 35-15 connected location ungraded successful the autumn of 2018.

There is nary sugarcoating it - England simply person to triumph this weekend, and they person to triumph well.

Despite really having played immoderate awesome rugby - led by the fantastic Marcus Smith - some successful the summertime and truthful acold successful the autumn, they proceed to fto themselves down massively successful the tiny details and good margins that is costing them clip and clip again.

Their crippled absorption successful the last 4th has been woeful and has to amended if results are to travel suit and the unit connected Borthwick statesman to ease.

Defeat astatine location to a Japan squad managed by Eddie Jones of each radical to headdress disconnected a nightmare tally of results would beryllium rather simply unthinkable, peculiarly with different Six Nations run moving rapidly into view.

England to win, by 25 points.

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).