England 52-13 Japan: Hosts score seven tries to win with ease

Porter's 2 tries were the archetypal of his planetary career

A much-improved England ran successful 7 tries to overwhelm Japan astatine Twickenham and get their autumn run backmost connected track.

Guy Porter went implicit successful the last play of the archetypal half, earlier Ellis Genge bulldozed done aft the break.

Porter snaffled his 2nd from Owen Farrell's kick, earlier a punishment effort and Smith topped up England's lead.

Japan's lone effort came done replacement scrum-half Naoto Saito arsenic the Brave Blossoms failed to propulsion England arsenic hard arsenic they did New Zealand and France earlier this year.

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England cognize their autumn volition lone get harder, with New Zealand and South Africa adjacent connected the fixture list.

But the competent, emphatic mode they enactment the effect beyond uncertainty - on a time that Italy upset Australia - volition inject assurance and content into their preparations.

England find their rhythm

Steward's effort started England's stroll towards victory

England had vowed to beryllium amended prepared, and much prepared to accidental their limb aft a astonishment decision by Argentina past weekend.

A consciousness of urgency and ambition was soon evident arsenic Smith threw a mis-pass implicit the apical for Jonny May to interruption the enactment aboriginal on.

Their sharper absorption and keener cutting borderline came bully successful the 12th infinitesimal arsenic the operation of Smith and Farrell outflanked Japan's unreserved defence and fed Steward connected a clever, carving line.

Wing Kotaro Matsushima could not clasp the Leicester man, who galloped successful with May cheering him connected successful support.

Backline ambition was matched by domination up front. Genge gave his opposing prop Jiwon Koo a torrid clip astatine the scrum, collecting a clutch of penalties, portion England's dense mob were making yards successful the loose.

After scoring the archetypal try, Steward created the second. The full-back opted to amusement his footwork alternatively than the size of his boot, ending immoderate aerial ping-pong with a weaving tally done a scrappy pursuit and an offload to nine team-mate Jack van Poortvliet.

Cokanasiga, brought successful for the injured Nowell successful the hours earlier kick-off, took it connected and offloaded disconnected the level for Smith to zip into the corner.

Farrell's conversion from adjacent the advertizing hoardings made it 17-0 aft 25 minutes and England appeared to beryllium coasting.

Japan sapped immoderate of the hosts' momentum with a mates of Takuya Yamasawa penalties and could person had a salient portion of tract presumption had they recovered the country with a punishment arsenic half-time beckoned.

Instead Steward kept the shot infield and, with the last play of the half, Van Poortvliet spun turnover possession wide for Simmonds to measurement wrong Dylan Riley and provender Porter for a 3rd try.

Seven minutes into the 2nd half, Genge took a wide, level walk from Van Poortvliet and scattered would-be tacklers to people from adjacent range.

Twenty-five points clear, England took the awesome to chopped loose.

Two minutes later, Maro Itoje counter-rucked to springiness England shot against a disorganised defence and the hosts showed each the ruthlessness they lacked a week ago.

Second rows Jonny Hill and David Ribbans kept the shot live with one-handed overhead offloads earlier Farrell's cute grubber fell perfectly for Porter.

A punishment try, for Siosaia Fifita's introduction into the broadside of a tryline-bound driven maul, gave England different 7 points and a antheral vantage for the last 10 minutes.

Smith exposed the undermanned defence with a crossfield footwear to Steward earlier latching onto Henry Slade's fly-hack to decorativeness disconnected the move.

England could easy person crept towards their 60-7 grounds triumph implicit Japan - a scoreline from the pair's gathering successful the excavation stages of the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

But Slade enactment marginally excessively overmuch connected a grubber footwear for May arsenic a bid of precocious opportunities went begging.

Man of the lucifer - Freddie Steward

Steward bushed much defenders (four) and made the second-most metres (43) of immoderate England subordinate successful different superb performance

England manager Eddie Jones to Prime Video: "We played much similar ourselves. Last week we were excessively agelong word successful our view, which was my responsibility and contiguous we were focused. We near 20 points retired determination and played immoderate truly bully rugby.

"It's astir playing to our strengths. You privation radical to recognise an England squad playing, and we request to follow a caller style. But contiguous we looked similar England. We were successful achromatic shirts which mightiness person made a difference."

Japan manager Jamie Joseph to Prime Video: "We were outplayed contiguous and enactment nether a batch of pressure. We conceded a batch of penalties, it's hard to get momentum against a precise bully defence.

"You person to instrumentality your chapeau disconnected to England. It was a truly bully crippled for america successful presumption of experience. Our extremity is the World Cup."

England: Steward; Nowell, Porter, Farrell (capt), May; Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Sinckler, Ribbans, Hill, Itoje, Curry, Simmonds.

Replacements: George, M Vunipola, Heyes, Coles, B Vunipola, Youngs, Slade, Tuilagi.

Japan: Yamanaka; Matsushima, Riley, Nakamura, Van den Heever; Yamasawa, Nagare; Inagaki, Sakate (c), Gu, Dearns, Cornelsen, Leith, Himeno, Tatafu.

Replacements: Norikoshi, Millar, Kizu, Van der Walt, Labuschagne, Saito, Lee, Fifita.