Match Overview and Key Moments<\/p>\n
EDINBURGH, Feb 14 (Reuters) – England\u2019s 12-match winning run was brought to an abrupt halt by Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday as they paid the price for a sluggish start and spending 30 minutes down to 14 men.<\/p>\n
England’s Early Struggles<\/p>\n
Henry Arundell\u2019s early yellow card contributed to Scotland romping into a 17-0 lead inside the opening quarter-hour, and when the winger was cautioned again, he received a 20-minute red card before the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s Tactical Advantage<\/p>\n
“We are bitterly disappointed at that first 20 minutes, the lead Scotland got ahead of us, and playing for such a long period with 14 men,\u201d said coach Steve Borthwick.<\/p>\n
Coach Reactions and Future Matches<\/p>\n
“The way Scotland moved the ball to the edges without our winger, it exposed us there, and it gave us too much to do.”<\/p>\n
Borthwick said he had expected a fired-up Scotland, especially after all the criticism heaped on them following their defeat to Italy in Rome last weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew they would come out and play with a whole lot of emotion. They are very good players in a very good team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
“There has been a lot of talk about (Scotland coach) Gregor Townsend, but his players really showed up today; they really performed and really played for Gregor today.<\/p>\n
“They don’t play like that in every single game. We will look at where we weren’t good and we will work on those things.\u201d<\/p>\n
England, who still have a chance for Six Nations success, play Ireland at home next Saturday before matches next month in Italy and France.<\/p>\n
“This championship is full of good teams, and these contests are hard-fought. Today, we gave ourselves too much to do. There is plenty for us to learn from and take forward,” the coach said. <\/p>\n
“Win or lose, we will always be working to be a better team.”<\/p>\n
(Writing by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Overview and Key Moments EDINBURGH, Feb 14 (Reuters) – England\u2019s 12-match winning run was brought to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,224178,4884,224179,70660,33131,224176,712,39685,224177,4209,114636,16,15],"class_list":["post-764688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scotland","tag-britain","tag-england-coach-reactions","tag-great-britain","tag-henry-arundell-red-card","tag-murrayfield-stadium","tag-rugby-championship","tag-rugby-match-analysis","tag-scotland","tag-scotland-rugby-team","tag-scotland-victory","tag-six-nations","tag-team-performance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116070926544283738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764688","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=764688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}