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Ben Youngs will bring down the curtain on his England career in Friday’s World Cup bronze final against Argentina at Stade de France usdt
The nation’s most-capped men’s player with 126 Test appearances makes his first start of the tournament but also his final Red Rose outing, having launched his international odyssey against Scotland 13 years ago usdt
Steve Borthwick has saluted a scrum-half master who has been first choice for most of his career until slipping down the pecking order at this World Cup due to the emergence of Alex Mitchell usdt
“Ben has been a tremendous player for English rugby for such a long time usdt
He’s a brilliant player and a fantastic team man,” Borthwick said usdt
“He’s our record cap holder, a player who has seen a lot in four World Cups and who has played an important role within this squad helping the team progress, particularly Alex Mitchell usdt
”Tom Curry locks horns with Argentina despite receiving usdt online abuse in response to the allegation that he was the victim of a racist slur against South Africa usdt
Curry claimed that hooker Bongi Mbonambi called him a “white c***” in Saturday’s 16-15 semi-final defeat at the Stade de France, prompting World Rugby to launch an investigation that is ongoing usdt
The Sale flanker continues in the back row despite being in the eye of the storm, however, and will win his 50th cap in a rematch of the pool victory over the Pumas usdt
Owen Farrell leads a team showing eight changes in personnel and two positional switches, one of them Curry’s move to blindside flanker to accommodate Sam Underhill’s first appearance of the World Cup in the number seven jersey usdt
Marcus Smith is restored at full-back after passing the HIA that forced him to sit out the South Africa showdown and the knock-on effect is that Freddie Steward moves to the right wing usdt
Henry Arundell returns for the first time since running in five tries against Chile in the third Pool D match, providing firepower on the left wing, while the centre partnership of Manu Tuilagi and Joe Marchant remains intact usdt
Head coach Borthwick fields an entirely new front row made up of Ellis Genge, Theo Dan and Will Stuart, with tighthead prop Dan Cole poised to make potentially his final England appearance off the bench usdt
Ollie Chessum returns in the second row, but there is no place in the 23 for George Martin, one of the heroes of the defeat by the Springboks usdt
“After the disappointment of last weekend’s game against South Africa, it is important that this Friday we once again play with the determination and dedication that so nearly earned the team the result we wanted,” Borthwick said usdt
“The bronze final gives us a great opportunity to finish the tournament on a positive note, continue to build for the future, and to give our supporters one last chance to get behind the squad out here in Paris usdt
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If this was a glimpse of England’s future then it rather resembles their past usdt
Steve Borthwick’s squad will leave France with bits of bronze in their pockets, outlasting Argentina in an entertaining affair to decide third spot despite threatening a familiar fourth quarter fade to defeat usdt
The England players slapped shoulders and shared hugs, happy enough with a World Cup medal of any kind at the end of a long and rigorous tournament usdt
Perhaps this was always the likeliest summit, a short three steps up on to a rapidly-erected rostrum to collect their decoration and reflect on some progress made usdt
This was something of a changing of the guard for England, bidding adieu to Ben Youngs, Courtney Lawes and a couple of others marking Test farewells, while also looking at the core coming through to lead Borthwick’s side into the next cycle usdt
Ben Youngs, England’s most capped male player, has retired from Test rugby (Getty Images)Seven of England’s starting XV here were 25 or under, a young nucleus around which Borthwick will now look to build usdt
They will head home with bronze medals, a fair enough achievement for a group of players who would have recognised overall triumph was always unlikely, much as they rose to the challenge impressively last weekend usdt
It was a mixed bag of a performance from England’s next generation, some good, some bad usdt
Henry Arundell departed after 65 minutes with an almost pristine white shirt as if just back from the dry cleaners, a single carry for 5m, a tackle and a horrible hacked kick his only involvements from a disappointing evening usdt
His back-three colleague Marcus Smith was busier, producing a performance to show both the merits usdt
For every flick and trick in possession there was a general air of insecurity under the high ball – Smith at 15 most certainly has merit but is best tagged a work in progress usdt
Hooker Theo Dan exemplified a bitty evening with contrasting involvements in two tries in two second-half minutes usdt
The young Saracens front rower was cast aside much too easily by Santiago Carreras’s outstanding solo effort but immediately atoned, blocking the Argentina fly half’s kick and scooping up the debris to score himself usdt
Hooker Theo Dan scored after charging down a kick (Getty Images)It perhaps best illustrated a night that will have left some ambivalent about England’s Test adolescents, hard not to be encouraged by the zip and zing that they may come to offer, but recognising that only really Ben Earl has emerged as something resembling the finished article at this tournament usdt
Even Freddie Steward looked out of sorts, England’s pillar of stability less valuable on the right wing than in a more central structural role usdt
The sub-25 group included Tom Curry on the occasion of his 50th cap, a product of his precocity usdt
After a difficult week off the field, the flanker looked rather glad to be on it, contesting at two of Argentina’s first five breakdowns and winning a holding on penalty at the second of them usdt
Captain Owen Farrell put England in front usdt
England had managed to convincingly beat Argentina in their opening game without crossing the try line, but righted that wrong eight minutes in usdt
A sparky carry from pocket-rocket hooker Dan created momentum, allowing Farrell and Smith to go to work at the line, two swift transfers in-and-out of the hands sending Earl bustling through on a neat angle usdt
Ben Earl crossed for a try early on (Getty Images)It had been an energetic opening from England, Curry and Sam Underhill back in tandem on the flanks and enjoying one another’s company, the so-called “kamikaze kids” returning for a one-night-only reunion gig and enjoying being back in one another’s company usdt
Ellis Genge, meanwhile, took out the frustrations of last weekend on anything vaguely in his vicinity, peeling back Argentina tighthead Francisco Gomez Kodela to prevent Argentina building from a scrum 10m from England’s line usdt
A side that have stuck so rigidly to their gameplan during their time in France were unlikely to wrap ties around their heads and play truant on the last day of term, but there were signs of a bit more freedom usdt
Farrell at one point right at the forefront of an ambitious, and eventually aborted, adventure out of his own 22, the teacher’s pet showing his classmates the way usdt
Farrell had brought his kicking boots, even if one drop goal attempt had to be abandoned due to the imminent arrival of an angry Argentine usdt
A third penalty re-extended England’s 13-point advantage after Emiliano Boffelli had put his side on the board from the tee usdt
At that point, the many South Americans inside the Stade de France were starting to fear the worst, an error-strewn performance so reminiscent of their meek showing on both the opening and semi-final weekends usdt
But the Pumas grew into it, with soon-to-be Saracen Juan Martin Gonzalez prominent, at one point making a solo spring to snaffle lineout ball up the front and beat four defenders on a rampage up the right usdt
The third place play-off was strongly contested (AFP via Getty Images)It was his gambol up the left touchline that led to Argentina’s first try, though it was a surprise that Lucio Cinti’s pass, that was a good few inches forward, to free the blindside did not prompt an intervention from the TMO usdt
As it was, Gonzalez galloped on, before some lively phase play allowed Tomas Cubelli to dummy his way to the line usdt
This was the Argentina we had so hoped to see more consistently across the tournament usdt
Michael Cheika’s side were in front almost immediately after the interval thanks to bit of individual brilliance from fly half Carreras usdt
There appeared little of promise in front of him as he ambled at the English line, but having rid himself of Dan, Carreras scampered free of Genge, too usdt
Smith was stepped to complete a sensational solo score under the posts – Argentina’s chief playmaker has not been at his best across the tournament but this was a reminder of the running threat he offers usdt
Santiago Carreras scored a brilliant individual try (Getty Images)But that sort of ability with ball in hand comes as a compromise, with Carreras still yet to round out his game as a Test 10 usdt
From the restart after his try, he laboured a little too long over a clearance, allowing Dan to make immediate amends with a charge down usdt
The hooker was fastest to the loose ball; England were back in front usdt
It took Arundell until the 48th minute to have his first touch, a single missed tackle his only first-half involvement usdt
A sliced kick went about 30m up but only five forwards, the error of boot exacerbated by presence of an offside England player in pursuit usdt
It allowed Boffelli an opportunity to narrow the gap, and the wing took it usdt
The momentum seemed to be with Argentina but they couldn’t quite make their possession and territory count usdt
Farrell and replacement Nicolas Sanchez traded penalties to keep the margin at three in England’s favour usdt
There it remained, Sanchez dragging a penalty from the left touchline wide having been granted an opportunity to level the scores late on usdt
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