{"id":204187,"date":"2025-06-22T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204187\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:55:12","slug":"steve-borthwick-gives-explanation-for-move-that-left-england-xv-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204187\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Borthwick gives explanation for move that left England XV struggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

England head coach Steve Borthwick<\/a> has revealed Joe Carpenter<\/a> left the field with a \u201ctight hamstring\u201d in England XV\u2019s defeat to <\/a>France<\/a> XV, but does not expect the injury to be serious.<\/p>\n

The Sale Sharks<\/a> full-back left the field after an hour in England<\/a> XV\u2019s 26-24 loss, leaving his side\u2019s backline in tatters for the final 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Already with substitute centre Oscar Beard<\/a> on the wing after Immanuel Feyi-Waboso\u2019s red card (a 20-minute red card), Carpenter\u2019s club-mate Raffi Quirke<\/a>, a scrum-half, was forced to play on the wing, shifting Henry Slade<\/a> to full-back.<\/p>\n

This was a move that may have come as a surprise to those watching, as there was nothing discernibly wrong with the 23-year-old, and it left England with a ramshackle back division, but it was one made out of necessity, Borthwick confirmed after the match. He added that he was reluctant to take any risks with his player after the concern was flagged, particularly with his side leading 24-12 at that point.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJoe Carpenter left the field with a little tight hamstring, so we took no chances with that,\u201d the head coach said. \u201cThat will get fully assessed, but we don\u2019t anticipate that being an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dangers of having a 6-2 split on the bench, with no specialist back-three players among the replacements, were laid bare at Allianz Stadium, but England co-captain George Ford<\/a> said that situations like those are what Test match rugby is about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bit mix-and-match at times,\u201d the fly-half said. \u201cI think Raffi ended up on the wing, Sladey was at full-back, Oscar started on the wing, then went to centre. But that\u2019s the way a Test match is played these days, you\u2019ve got to have versatility in your backline, you\u2019ve got to be able to adapt on the go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Borthwick reported that the matchday squad otherwise came away unscathed. He, meanwhile, provided an update on flanker Ben Curry<\/a>, who continues to rehab a hamstring injury ahead of England\u2019s series with Argentina.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s tracking really well,\u201d he said. \u201cHe did a very good session yesterday. He\u2019s on track to be fit and available to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England head coach Steve Borthwick has revealed Joe Carpenter left the field with a \u201ctight hamstring\u201d in England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-204187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114725003303093249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204187","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=204187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}