England hammer Japan to finish autumn on a high

England (35) 59

Tries: Earl, Underhill, George 2, Sleightholme, Furbank, Cowan-Dickie 2, Roebuck Cons: M Smith 7

Japan (7) 14

Tries: Saito, Himeno Cons: Saito, Matsunaga

England ended their five-match losing tally with a nine-try hammering of Eddie Jones' Japan astatine Twickenham's Allianz Stadium.

The triumph marked a archetypal and lone triumph of a hard Autumn Nation Series run for Steve Borthwick's broadside aft adjacent defeats by New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

Captain Jamie George scored doubly successful a objective opening period, which saw Ben Earl, Sam Underhill and Ollie Sleightholme besides drawback tries.

The Brave Blossoms managed 1 eye-catching people successful the archetypal fractional done skipper Naoto Saito.

Full-back George Furbank gathered Tommy Freeman's sublime behind-the-back walk to people England's sixth effort successful the 2nd half, earlier replacement hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie burrowed implicit the enactment for the archetypal of his 2 tries.

Flanker Kazuki Himeno's effort gave Jones' broadside a deserved second-half score, but the hosts finished the strongest with Tom Roebuck adding to Cowan-Dickie's people for his archetypal planetary try.

It was Borthwick's side's archetypal triumph since June erstwhile they comfortably beat Japan 52-17 successful Tokyo.

Former England caput manager Jones, who was sacked by the Rugby Football Union successful 2022 and aboriginal replaced by Borthwick, kept a debased illustration successful the build-up to his return, having been successful complaint during England's joint-worst tally since 2018 of 5 consecutive defeats.

More to follow.

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

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

Japan: Matsunaga; Osada, Riley, Fifita, Naikabula; McCurran, Saito; Okabe, Lee, Takeuchi, Waqa, Uluiviti, Shimokawa, Himeno, Makisi.

Replacements: Matsuoka, Morikawa, Tamefusa, Akiyama, Tatafu, Gunter, Fujiwara, Kajimura.

Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

Assistant Referee 1: Andrea Piardi (Italy)

Assistant Referee 2: Morne Ferreira (South Africa)

TMO: Olly Hodges (Ireland)