{"id":314004,"date":"2025-08-03T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314004\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:58:16","slug":"marlie-packer-hands-england-world-cup-worry-during-97-7-rout-of-spain-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314004\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlie Packer hands England World Cup worry during 97-7 rout of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran flanker, who was captaining her country in Leicester, was dismissed 19 minutes from time for an adjudged illegal clearout on Spain full-back Claudia Pena.<\/p>\n<p>With the Red Roses set to play France next weekend in their final warm-up match ahead of their World Cup opener against the United States on August 22, Packer will face a disciplinary hearing to determine her fate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We take the win \ud83c\udf39<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedRoses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RedRoses<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pWXMkrUCXK\">pic.twitter.com\/pWXMkrUCXK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Roses (@RedRosesRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedRosesRugby\/status\/1951672112936009776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Helena Rowland scored a hat-trick at Welford Road as England\u2019s preparations for a tilt at global glory on home soil began in ruthless fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The versatile back, who was hailed as \u201cprobably the most valuable person\u201d in the Red Roses\u2019 squad by head coach John Mitchell after being named to start on the right wing, claimed two of seven first-half tries.<\/p>\n<p>Number eight Maddie Feaunati, scrum-half Lucy Packer, wing Jess Breach, prop Sarah Bern and centre Jade Shekells also crossed in the opening 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.81167143.jpg\" alt=\"England\u2019s Helena Rowland is tackled by Spain\u2019s Claudia Pena\" data-title=\"England v Spain \u2013 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup Warm Up \u2013 Mattioli Woods Welford Road\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Adam Davy\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>England\u2019s Helena Rowland claimed a hat-trick in Leicester (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Bern registered her second try early in the second period before Rowland completed her treble two minutes later and lock Lilli Ives Campion added another for Test rugby\u2019s top-ranked nation.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, who are ranked 13th in the world and will face Ireland in Pool C at the World Cup, claimed a fine 53rd-minute consolation through 19-year-old Harlequins player Pena, which was converted by fly-half Amalia Argudo.<\/p>\n<p>Full-back Emma Sing stretched England\u2019s lead before replacements May Campbell, Hannah Botterman and Abby Dow and vice-captain Megan Jones completed the scoring following the premature departure of skipper Packer.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The veteran flanker, who was captaining her country in Leicester, was dismissed 19 minutes from time for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-314004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963779388925570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314004","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=314004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}