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England head coach Steve Borthwick (right) during a training session at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham(Image: Adam Davy\/PA Wire.)<\/p>\nEngland host France at Allianz Arena Twickenham on Saturday with the game not on televisionEngland head coach Steve Borthwick (right) during a training session at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham(Image: Adam Davy\/PA Wire.)<\/p>\n
Attentions may well be fixed on the British & Irish Lions tour to Australia this summer but there is a fair bit of international rugby on the agenda too.<\/p>\n
Steve Borthwick’s England kick off their schedule with a match against France at Allianz Stadium Twickenham this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Red Roses are facing Argentina in a two-Test tour to South America this summer and this match against the French will give Borthwick the chance to experiment with new combinations.<\/p>\n
Following that trip to the southern hemisphere they play a one-off match against the USA in Washington.<\/p>\n
With a total of 13 players away with Andy Farrell’s Lions squad, other England squad hopefuls will see this as a golden opportunity to lay down a marker to Borthwick for future selection.<\/p>\n
This will be the first time England play since the thrashing they handed out to Wales at the Principality Stadium; they ended their Six Nations<\/a> campaign with a 68-14 romp in Cardiff<\/a> and finished second in the standings.<\/p>\n France head coach Fabien Galthie has named an \u2018A\u2019 team squad for the visit to London, which is still littered with rising talent.<\/p>\n However, no major broadcaster has picked up the rights for this one. This is how you can catch the action.<\/p>\n What time in England v France kick-off?<\/p>\n England v France kicks off at 3.15pm<\/strong> on Saturday, June 21, at Allianz Arena Twickenham, London.<\/p>\n What channel is it on?<\/p>\n The match is being streamed by rugby site RugbyPass TV<\/strong>. You can watch the game for free by setting up an account. Coverage will begin just before kick-off.<\/p>\n Full line-ups<\/p>\n England XV: <\/strong>Carpenter; Roebuck, Slade, Atkinson, Feyi-Waboso; Ford, Spencer; Baxter, George, Heyes; Coles, Isiekwe; Hill, Pepper, Willis<\/p>\n Replacements: <\/strong>Dan, Rodd, Davison, Cunningham-South, Kenningham, Dombrandt, Quirke, Beard<\/p>\n France XV: <\/strong>Attissogbe; Duguivalu, Fickou, Gailleton, Moustin; Le Garrec, Hastoy; Fischer, Guillard, Tixeront; Auradou, Duguid; Erdocio, Barlot, Slimani.<\/p>\n Replacements: <\/strong>Marchand, Mallez, Bamba, Taofifenua R, van Tonder, Woki, Jauneau, Berdeu<\/p>\n What have the coaches said?<\/p>\n Borthwick: <\/strong>\u201cLast week, as we were trying to get him (Immanuel Feyi-Waboso) through the final stages of his return to play, I had to man-mark him myself, which is a pretty tricky job.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s full of enthusiasm and energy, it\u2019s boundless. You have to pull him out of things because he\u2019ll just jump straight in.<\/p>\n \u201cHe trained really well, he\u2019s excited to be back on the pitch and excited to be back in a white shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England host France at Allianz Arena Twickenham on Saturday with the game not on televisionEngland head coach Steve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[18194,2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-201842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-england-rugby-union-team","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114719918963244100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}