England v Australia 13th Nov 2021

By RugbyFan
November 12 2021

England's Joe Marler will miss Saturday's match against Australia after testing positive for Covid-19, and also the England prop Ellis Genge  tests positive for Covid-19 and is out of Australia Test the Rugby Football Union has announced. 

ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA

AUTUMN NATIONS SERIES 2021

 

 

 Saturday, 13 November KO: 17:45 GMT - Twickenham

 

OPTAFACTS

 

●Since losing to Australia in the pool stage of the 2015 RugbyWorldCup, England have won seven consecutive matches against the Wallabies, their best winning run against them.

●The last meeting between England and Australia came at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, England winning that quarter-final clash  40-16 ,their joint biggest win against the Wallabies (30-6 in 2017).

●Honours are even in the historical head-to-head between  England and Australia, across their 51 clashes  both sides have picked up 25 wins and they shared a drawback in 1997.

●England have scored exactly four tries in each of their last five matches agains Australia, averaging 38points scored per game in that run, in their previous  46 clashes they had scored 4+ tries against the Wallabies just twice (1928,1988).

●Australia have won only two of their last nine away Tests against European teams (L7), those victories for the Wallabies coming against Italy(26-7, 17November 2018 in Padova) and Wales(29-21, 11 November 2017 at Principality Stadium).

●England have gained an average of 7.3 metres per carry in the Autumn Nations Series, the most of any team; they have gained a total of 733 metres, from their 101  carries so far this month.

●Australia made 99 passes in their most recent Test against Scotland–only the second time in their last 65 international matches that  the Wallabies have tallied fewer than 100 passes in a single game 81vs SouthAfrica, 18 September 2021).scored 20+points in a match against them, including both of his most recent two matches against them.

●Andrew Kellaway(Australia) gained 49metres against Scotland, the most by any Wallabies player last  timeout; Kellaway has gained 70metres per game across his last four Tests for the Wallabies.

 

 

England: Steward; Tuilagi, Slade, Farrell (Captain) May; Smith, Youngs; Rodd, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Hill, Lawes, Underhill, Curry.

Replacements: Blamire, Davison, Stuart, Ewels, Dombrandt, Simmonds, Quirke, Malins.