England 75-0 South Africa: Red Roses thrash Boks en route to World Cup last eight

Packer marked her archetypal lucifer arsenic England skipper with a try

England steamrollered South Africa to apical Pool C connected their mode to a World Cup quarter-final against Australia.

Second enactment Rosie Galligan - 1 of six England players making their archetypal quality successful the tourney - was driven implicit for the archetypal of her 3 tries aft six minutes.

Connie Powell rounded disconnected her ain hat-trick successful the 69th minute.

Sadia Kabeya dotted down to implicit an emphatic win.

England's triumph besides confirms Wales' spot successful the past 8 wherever they volition look hosts New Zealand.

The Red Roses person extended their grounds streak to 28 successive wins and are present perchance 3 matches from Rugby World Cup glory.

They past played their last-eight opponents Australia backmost successful 2017, winning 53-10 successful the International Women's Rugby Series successful Wellington.

Beyond the Wallaroos lies a imaginable semi-final with Canada and a 12 November showpiece final, with New Zealand oregon France the likeliest to prevail successful the different broadside of the draw.

All those encounters volition airs a stiffer trial than the Springboks.

There were respective awesome cameos from South Africa, with fig 8 Aseza Hele scattering achromatic shirts and helping Nomawethu Mabenge uncovering a spread aboriginal on.

But the squad ranked 13th successful the satellite fell good abbreviated of England successful astir departments, peculiarly the set-piece.

Following Galligan's opener, Poppy Cleall barged implicit aft England had the South Africa battalion stuck successful reverse astatine some the scrum and a driven line-out.

The rolling maul delivered different effort for Galligan and 1 for Shaunagh Brown, called into the matchday squad on with Ellie Kildunne aft insignificant injuries forced Vickii Cornborough and Emily Scarratt to withdraw.

After Connie Powell's score, South Africa headed down the passageway 29 points adrift. And they mightiness inactive person counted themselves lucky.

Second enactment Catha Jacobs was 1 of 2 Springboks to spot yellowish earlier the interval, but could easy person been sent disconnected for a enarthrosis to the chin of her Saracens team-mate Poppy Cleall.

Powell claimed her 2nd people astatine the backmost of yet different driven line-out wrong a infinitesimal of the restart.

With the effect beyond doubt, England expanded their gameplan, switching from the straightforward to the sublime and showing the assortment that volition beryllium needed successful the knockout stages.

A delicious portion of interplay with Cleall served up skipper Marlie Packer's 27th Test effort earlier Abby Dow and Tatyana Heard sliced up the Springboks to unfastened the mode for Galligan to gallop in.

As South Africa tired, the Red Roses made the astir of the abstraction with forwards and backs combining to nutrient their champion rugby of the tourney truthful far.

Cleall was sent implicit by immoderate astute hands from Heard, earlier replacement Kabeya capped disconnected a rolling transition of play that swept crossed the width of the transportation and done a flagging defence.

Dow dived implicit for the 11th effort successful a flurry of 3 scores successful 5 minutes, earlier Powell and Kabeya's short-range tries piled connected much points.

Middleton volition person been little acrophobic with the scoreline though and much funny successful the tiny people of idiosyncratic performances.

Scrum-half Lucy Packer was speedy and clever successful her decisions and delivery, portion Galligan staked a important assertion to a second-row spot for the knock-out stages.

Heard was a busy, bustling beingness successful midfield, portion Dow and Breach were objective erstwhile supplied shot successful the 2nd half.

Some hard enactment determination await for the coach.

Player of the lucifer - Rosie Galligan

With Abbie Ward and Zoe Aldcroft successful the squad, determination is stiff second-row contention but Rosie Galligan did each she could with 3 tries and 58 metres with shot successful hand, much than immoderate different England forward

Teams

England: McKenna; Dow, Aitchison, Heard, Breach; Harrison, L Packer; Botterman, Powell, Muir; Galligan, O'Donnell, Talling, M Packer (c), Cleall

Replacements: Cokayne, Cornborough, Bern, Aldcroft, Kabeya, Infante, Scarratt, Rowland

South Africa: Webb; Mabenge, Namba, Qawe, Roos; Jordaan, Kinsey; Charlie, Botes, Latsha, Booi (c), Jacobs, Dumke, Makua, Hele

Replacements: Gunter, Ngxingolo, Mkiva, Mathe, Solontsi, Potgieter, Cilliers, Qawe