England (19) 31 |
Tries: Willis, Chessum, George, Penalty, Arundell Cons: Farrell 2 |
Italy (0) 14 |
Tries: Riccioni, Fusco Con: Allan 2 |
England earned a archetypal triumph of Steve Borthwick's tenure with a pragmatic bonus-point triumph implicit Italy successful the Six Nations astatine Twickenham.
Jack Willis marked his instrumentality to the broadside with an opening effort earlier Ollie Chessum powered implicit for the second.
Jamie George added a 3rd from adjacent scope but Italy deed backmost aft the interruption done Marco Riccioni.
A punishment effort sealed the bonus and Henry Arundell scored a fifth, portion Alessandro Fusco claimed a consolation.
Victory for the hosts lifts them to 3rd successful the table, supra defending champions France connected points difference, portion Italy driblet down to fifth.
Borthwick's men question to Cardiff to look Wales successful their adjacent crippled connected 25 February, aft adjacent weekend's break, arsenic the Azzurri big satellite fig 1 broadside Ireland earlier connected the aforesaid day.
More to follow.
Line-ups
England: Steward; Malins, Slade, Lawrence, Hassell-Collins; Farrell (c), Van Poortvliet; Genge, George, Sinckler; Itoje, Chessum; Ludlam, Willis, Dombrandt.
Replacements: Walker, M Vunipola, Cole, Isiekwe, Earl, Mitchell, M Smith, Arundell.
Italy: Capuozzo; Padovani, Brex, Morisi, Menoncello; Allan, Varney; Fischetti, Nicotera, Riccioni, N Cannone, Ruzza, Negri, Lamaro, L Cannone
Replacements: Bigi, Zani, Ferrari, Iachizzi, Polledri, Zuliani, Fusco, Bruno
Match officials
Referee: James Doleman (Nzl)
Touch judges: Mathieu Raynal (Fra) and Tual Trainini (Fra)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (Fra)