{"id":557037,"date":"2025-11-08T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:20:23","slug":"england-vs-fiji-kick-off-time-tv-channel-live-stream-lineups-team-news-h2h-odds-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557037\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs Fiji: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, lineups, team news, h2h, odds today"},"content":{"rendered":"

England<\/a> take on Fiji<\/a> this evening in their second game of the 2025 Autumn Internationals.<\/p>\n

Ben Earl, Henry Pollock, Alex Mitchell, and Luke Cowan-Dickie all got on the scoresheet for England<\/a>, and despite Harry Potter\u2019s try for the Aussies, Joe Schmidt\u2019s team could not muster any magic. <\/p>\n

George Ford<\/a> had a bad day off the tee, kicking just one conversion and knocking over one penalty, but it was the morale-booster that Borthwick and his staff needed moving into the following fixtures. <\/p>\n

Now, they face Fiji<\/a>, who they last played in the quarter-finals of the World Cup<\/a> back in 2023. <\/p>\n

England ran out 30-24 victors that day at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, with Owen Farrell on-target with his kicking, scoring five penalties and adding a drop-goal to Manu Tuilagi and Joe Marchant\u2019s scores. <\/p>\n

The 2003 winners had been leading comfortably by 14 points with quarter of an hour to go in that last-eight clash, but Fiji’s Peni Ravai and Vilimoni Botitu scored quickfire tries within four minutes to even proceedings at 24-24. <\/p>\n

Farrell then stepped up with the decisive drop-goal and penalty to book England\u2019s place in the semis, where they were edged out by a point by South Africa.<\/p>\n

Date, kick-off time and venue<\/strong><\/p>\n

England vs Fiji is scheduled for a 5.40pm GMT kick-off today, Saturday, November 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

The match will take place at Twickenham. <\/p>\n

Where to watch England vs Fiji<\/strong><\/p>\n

TV channel: In the UK, the game will be televised live on TNT Sports 1, with coverage starting at 5.30pm GMT. <\/p>\n

Live stream: TNT Sports subscribers can also catch the contest live online via the discovery+ app and websites<\/p>\n

Live blog: You can follow all the action on matchday via Standard Sport<\/strong>\u2019s live blog. <\/p>\n

England vs Fiji team news<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fin Smith has got the nod to play at stand-off, while Marcus Smith<\/a>, a natural fly-half, comes in at full-back to replace Freddie Steward.<\/p>\n

Maro Itoje is amongst the replacements, while Chandler Cunningham-South makes his first Test start at No8 in the absence of Tom Willis, who is ineligible due to his decision to play his club rugby in France.<\/p>\n

Tommy Freeman and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso complete the back three, with Tom Roebuck struggling with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

That means that Ollie Lawrence returns to the side following his Six Nations Achilles tear in midfield, partnered by Fraser Dingwall.<\/p>\n

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Marcus Smith is one of seven changes for England this evening<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alex Coles replaces Itoje at lock, linking up with Ollie Chessum in the second row, while Ellis Genge captains the side from the front, joined by Joe Heyes and Cowan-Dickie.<\/p>\n

George Ford has missed out completely on the matchday squad.<\/p>\n

Confirmed England XV: <\/strong>M Smith; Freeman, Lawrence, Dingwall, Feyi-Waboso; F Smith, Mitchell; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Heyes, Coles, Chessum, Pepper, Earl, Cunningham-South<\/p>\n

Replacements<\/strong>: George, Baxter, Opoku-Fordjour, Itoje, T Curry, Pollock, Spencer, Arundell<\/p>\n

England vs Fiji prediction<\/strong><\/p>\n

They made hard work of the Flying Fijians last time out, and there could be some time needed to gel as Borthwick continues to tinker. <\/p>\n

But you would expect the home side to have it mostly their own way here. <\/p>\n

England to win by 30 points. <\/p>\n

Head to head (h2h) history and results<\/strong><\/p>\n

England vs Fiji match odds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England take on Fiji this evening in their second game of the 2025 Autumn Internationals. Ben Earl, Henry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,33405,20681,4884,8128,26349,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-557037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-fiji","11":"tag-george-ford","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-marcus-smith","14":"tag-steve-borthwick","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115513578640994334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557037","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=557037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}