How to watch England vs Australia
When: Saturday 9th November, 15:10 (UK time)
Where: Twickenham, London
How:
UK – TNT Sports 1
Ireland – Virgin Media One
New Zealand – Sky Sport 1
Australia – Stan Sport
Germany – ProSieben Maxx
France – beIn Sports 2
Italy – Sky Sport Arena
Norway/Sweden – Viaplay
Match preview, prediction & teams
England stay with same starting XV as last weekend against The All Blacks, but have gone for a more normal 5-3 split between backs and forwards on the bench with Ollie Sleightholme replacing Ben Curry. George Ford is still preferred as the back-up fly-half instead of Finn Smith. It was the wrong decision last week which cost England the game (Ford had very little game time recently) and even stranger this week with three of Finn Smith’s threequarter teammates from Northampton likely to being playing. It shouldn’t matter as Australia are the weakest of England’s opponents from the southern hemisphere in the autumn internationals. I think Steve Borthwick also being both stubborn (not admitting he was wrong in picking Ford last week) and also loyal to him who was at Leicester when Borthwick was coach. Australia are giving a first cap to rugby league star Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, who is an exciting prospect. However Joe Schmidt’s Australian side is still a work in progress so expect England to bounce back from last week’s defeat and win a close game.
England: George Furbank; Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, Ollie Lawrence, Henry Slade, Tommy Freeman; Marcus Smith, Ben Spencer; Ellis Genge, Jamie George (captain), Will Stuart, Maro Itoje, George Martin, Chandler Cunningham-South, Tom Curry, Ben Earl.
Replacements: Luke Cowan-Dickie, Fin Baxter, Dan Cole, Nick Isiekwe, Alex Dombrandt, Harry Randall, George Ford, Ollie Sleightholme.
Australia: Tom Wright; Andrew Kellaway, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Len Ikitau, Dylan Pietsch; Noah Lolesio, Jake Gordon; Angus Bell, Matt Faessler, Taniela Tupou, Nick Frost, Jeremy Williams, Rob Valentini, Fraser McReight, Harry Wilson (captain).
Replacements: Brandon Paenga-Amosa, James Slipper, Allan Alaalatoa, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, Langi Gleeson, Tate McDermott, Ben Donaldson, Max Jorgensen
