| Venue: Twickenham Date: Saturday 12 November Kick-off: 15:15 GMT |
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Quantity eight Sam Simmonds and scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet will begin for a much-changed England in opposition to Japan at Twickenham on Saturday.
South Africa-born David Ribbans makes his debut at lock, changing Northampton team-mate Alex Coles.
Manu Tuilagi drops to the bench, with Leicester’s Man Porter coming in at outdoors centre.
Wing Jonny Might will begin rather than Joe Cokanasiga, solely 22 days after dislocating an elbow on membership responsibility.
Hooker Jamie George, who has recovered from a foot damage that was to rule him out of the complete autumn, is included on the bench.
England suffered a shock 30-29 defeat by Argentina of their opening autumn Check on Sunday.
“We have labored arduous this week to enhance on final week’s efficiency,” mentioned head coach Eddie Jones, who coached Japan from 2012 earlier than taking the England job.
“We have taken a great take a look at our preparation and we’re proud of our place going into the sport.
“We have made just a few modifications to the aspect as we play these 4 video games in November – specifically with Manu, we’re balancing his workload.
“Japan are an excellent and intriguing aspect. They play a novel sort of rugby based mostly on continuity and group cohesion and we’ll need to be at our greatest in opposition to them at Twickenham on Saturday.”
The match shall be solely the third assembly between to the groups, with England successful 60-7 in 1987 and 35-15 in 2018.
Japan have produced some spectacular performances in defeat this yr, ending inside a transformed rating of France and New Zealand of their previous two outings.
England: Steward; Nowell, Porter, Farrell (capt), Might; Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Sinckler, Ribbans, Hill, Itoje, Curry, Simmonds.
Replacements: George, M Vunipola, Heyes, Coles, B Vunipola, Youngs, Slade, Tuilagi.
Extra to observe.
