{"id":234679,"date":"2025-07-03T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:21:09","slug":"williams-retains-england-u20s-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234679\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams retains England U20s spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Williams has retained his place in the England Under-20s side for their second match of the\u00a02025 World Rugby U20 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Leicester Tigers back rower started at openside flanker in the 37-point win, 56-19, over\u00a0Scotland at\u00a0Payanini Centre, Verona, in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STARTING XV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15 Josh Bellamy (Harlequins, Rosslyn Park, 13 caps)\u00a0<br \/>14 Ben Redshaw (cc) (Gloucester Rugby, West Park Leeds RFC, 9\u00a0caps)\u00a0<br \/>13 Nick Lilley (Exeter Chiefs, Ivybridge RFC, 5 caps)\u00a0<br \/>12 Nic Allison (Exeter Chiefs, Bishops Diocesan College, 4 caps)\u00a0<br \/>11 Jack Bracken (Saracens, Barnet Elizabethans, 9\u00a0caps)\u00a0<br \/>10 Ben Coen (Exeter Chiefs, Teignmouth RFC, 10 caps)\u00a0<br \/>9 Jonny Weimann (Northampton Saints, Royston Rugby Club, 2 caps)\u00a0<br \/>1 Ralph McEachran (Sale Sharks, Guildford RFC, 6 caps)\u00a0<br \/>2 Kepu Tuipulotu (Bath Rugby, Cwmbran RFC, 6\u00a0caps)\u00a0<br \/>3 Vilikesa Sela (Bath Rugby, Royal Wootton Bassett RFC, 11 caps)\u00a0<br \/>4 Olamide Sodeke (Saracens, Blackheath Rugby Club, 15 caps)\u00a0<br \/>5 Tom Burrow (cc) (Sale Sharks, Morley RUFC, 6\u00a0caps)\u00a0<br \/>6 Connor Treacey (Bath Rugby, New Milton Rugby Club, 3 caps)\u00a0<br \/><strong>7 Samuel Williams (Leicester Tigers, Nottingham Corsairs RFC, 1 cap)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>8 Kane James (Exeter Chiefs, St. Peter\u2019s RFC, 15 caps)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>REPLACEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16 Alfie Longstaff (Sale Sharks, Sandal RUFC, uncapped)\u00a0<br \/>17 Oli Scola (Northampton Saints, Old Northamptonians RFC, 5 caps)\u00a0<br \/>18 Tye Raymont (Sale Sharks, West Park Leeds RFC, 6 caps)\u00a0<br \/>19 Junior Kpoku (Racing 92, Saracens Amateurs, 14 caps)\u00a0<br \/>20 Aiden Ainsworth-Cave (Northampton Saints, Bedford Junior Blues, 5\u00a0caps)\u00a0<br \/>21 Archie McParland (Northampton Saints, Ruthin RFC, 6 caps)\u00a0<br \/>22 Campbell Ridl (Exeter Chiefs, Sharks, 3 caps)<br \/>23 Noah Caluori (Saracens, Blackheath Rugby, uncapped)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>England\u2019s 2025 World Rugby U20 Championship fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>England vs. South Africa &#8211; Friday, July 4, 17:00 BST &#8211; Stadio Mario Battaglini, Rovigo\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>England vs. Australia &#8211; Wednesday, July 9, 17:00 BST &#8211; Payanini Centre, Verona\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Williams has retained his place in the England Under-20s side for their second match of the\u00a02025 World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234679","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\/114789278219320726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234679","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=234679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}