Fourteen-man England still too strong for Argentina

Jones’ England can go a whole year unbeaten since he took charge with victory this weekend, but Jones believes the Wallabies, who lost for the first time on tour to Ireland on Saturday, “are probably the most improved side in world rugby”.

ENGLAND head coach Eddie Jones says there will be no recriminations against Elliott Daly, who will be missing against Australia and faces a minimum three-week suspension as sanction for ending the concussed Leonardo Senatore’s afternoon against Argentina. “Some of the forwards were outstanding”, he said.

“There was enough drama in the game to fill 10 episodes of EastEnders”, said England boss Jones after the 27-14 win.

After going down to 14 men, England will be very happy to come out with a win.

“They’ll want to win the Australian way which is running the ball and to come to Twickenham and win the Australian way they could go home and have six weeks on the beach and be the kings of Australia”.

“The unbeaten record is a effect of us playing well next week, so the only thing we can do next week is play well”.

During England’s tour to Australia in June when they produced a historic 3-0 clean sweep, Jones masterfully baited and needled the Wallabies and their coach Michael Cheika in his media interviews and there is set to be more of the same this week in London.

“The Australia media was very disrespectful to us during the summer, and I’m looking forward to meeting with the referee to discuss their scrummaging before the match”. We’ll invite the Australian coaching staff to come along. It should be fun.

“We adapted and we took the challenge as it was and we were absolutely brilliant at executing the plan to win it from there”. “I’ve been really impressed with what they’ve done”.

A day after World Rugby announced harsher penalties for unsafe play, Jones had no complaints about Daly’s red card for tackling Leonardo Senatore in the air, the number eight landing on his head and having to be taken off.

Jones said afterwards that it was an error of judgement by Daly and concentrated lavish praise for how his side reacted on the field of play. The ball was recycled by England, and Matias Orlando deliberately batted down Chris Robshaw’s pass to Tom Wood, who would have had a walk-in for the try. “It is a massive target, our sole objective”, he said. “I am enjoying my rugby and delighted to be part of a good side”.

Now against 13 players, Argentina grabbed its first try when No. 8 Facundo Isa picked up from the base of that seventh scrum, shook off Ben Youngs and burrowed through Teimana Harrison, Vunipola’s replacement, to ground. “We have got the chance to make history and all the boys are loving it”. “It shows we’re building nicely”.

“He’s in a bit of pain but we’ll just wait and see”.

Skipper Dylan Hartley added: “As soon as the Elliot incident happened we knew what was coming”. “It was a great team effort”.