Review of England's defeat by Australia 'brutal'

Autumn Nations Series: England v South Africa

Venue: Allianz Stadium, Twickenham Date: Saturday, 16 November Kick-off: 17:40 GMT

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England's reappraisal of their last-gasp decision by Australia was "brutal" but precisely what the squad needed, says helping Ollie Sleightholme.

Steve Borthwick's broadside conceded 42 points astatine Twickenham's Allianz Stadium, with replacement helping Max Jorgensen scoring successful the 4th infinitesimal of wounded clip to cancel retired what looked to beryllium a precocious winning-try by England's Maro Itoje.

The effect was their 2nd constrictive decision of the Autumn Nations Series aft the two-point nonaccomplishment to New Zealand, and their 4th nonaccomplishment successful a row.

"It has been truly bully to chew the abdominous connected what happened and truly get a grasp of what we request to bash and what needs to change," Sleightholme told BBC Sport. "It was a brutal presumption and it needs to be.

"It was a lawsuit of getting it each retired determination and not shying distant from immoderate of it.

"At the extremity of the time we didn't get it done. It is simply a frustrating reappraisal and a frustrating crippled to look backmost on.

"We near immoderate opportunities retired determination and we didn't nullify immoderate of their attacks. There are a fewer things [to enactment on] successful each areas."

Sleightholme, 24, came connected arsenic a replacement and scored doubly successful the 2nd fractional to registry his archetypal 2 planetary tries.

Marcus Smith's touchline conversion from the Northampton wing's 2nd effort enactment England into a 30-28 pb heading into the last 10 minutes.

However, 2 Wallaby tries - either broadside of Itoje's 78th-minute people - saw Australia registry lone their 2nd triumph against England successful their past 12 meetings.

The frantic finale besides prevented a imagination archetypal crippled astatine Allianz Stadium for Sleightholme, who won his 3rd headdress connected Saturday.

"It was bully to people but it doesn't mean thing if you don't win," helium added.

It is the 4th crippled successful 5 matches that Borthwick's broadside person fallen connected the incorrect broadside of the last play, pursuing 2 adjacent Tests against the All Blacks successful July and a 33-31 decision by France successful their last crippled of this year's Six Nations.

On Saturday, England volition look satellite champions South Africa, who defeated Scotland successful their opening lucifer of the autumn connected Sunday.

"We're investigating fans' patience, investigating our patience," admitted England fig 8 Ben Earl. "It feels similar we won the crippled doubly against Australia and past managed to suffer it. Frustrating.

"Not the aforesaid aged problems, antithetic problems, but the aforesaid overwhelming feeling of different crippled that we've fto slip. So nutrient for thought."