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Eddie Jones: Japan get 'quite dirty' as they plan 'something a bit different' for England
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Eddie Jones has been plotting a historic ambush of England after backing Japan to storm Allianz Stadium on Saturday.
The Brave Blossoms have never beaten England in six previous Test meetings and are 40-1 underdogs to spring a seismic upset in the Nations Championship showdown.
But their wily Australian head coach Jones is preparing some curve balls for the team he oversaw from 2016 to 2022.
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“It’s a big week for Japanese rugby,” Jones said. “We realise England are a nation we’ve never been able to beat.
“Everyone knows the record and we want to do something a bit different this week and we’ve trained like that, so I’m really pleased with the team.
“We’ve had really good training to prepare us for the game we are expecting against England.
“We had two days of very settled and pretty training but Wednesday was quite dirty. We had to adapt to certain situations and in the end we did it really well.
“I was really pleased with the players, really pleased with their effort, really pleased with the way they adapted to the situations.
“I’m looking forward to going to Twickenham with this young Japanese team that’s going to play the house down.”
Jones remains England’s most successful coach in terms of win rate with 72 per cent and won two Six Nations titles, including the 2016 Grand Slam, and steered the national team into the 2019 World Cup final.
Nations Championship
North
P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
France
4
3
1
0
17
2
England
4
3
1
0
15
3
Ireland
4
3
1
0
15
4
Scotland
4
2
2
0
11
5
Wales
4
2
2
0
10
6
Italy
4
0
4
0
0
South
P
W
L
D
PF
PA
PD
BP T
BP-7
BP
Total
1
South Africa
4
4
0
0
20
2
New Zealand
4
4
0
0
20
3
Australia
4
1
3
0
8
4
Argentina
4
1
3
0
7
5
Japan
4
1
3
0
5
6
Fiji
4
0
4
0
0
“I had seven good years there,” Jones said. “If you look at the stats, they stand the test of time. So there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be pleased to go back to Twickenham.”
Japan: 15 Kazuma Ueda; 14 Kippei Ishida, 13 Dylan Riley, 12 Samisoni Tua, 11 Riku Tokito; 10 Riku Kitahara, 9 Naoto Saito (co-captain); 1 Yota Kamimori, 2 Mamoru Harada, 3 Shuhei Takeuchi, 4 Harry Hockings, 5 Warner Dearns (co-captain), 6 Ben Gunter, 7 Kanji Shimokawa, 8 Jack Cornelsen.
Replacements: 16 Kenji Sato, 17 Sojiro Otsuka, 18 Opeti Helu, 19 Michael Stolberg, 20 Tiennan Costley, 21 Shinobu Fujiwara, 22 Shinya Komura, 23 Jisu Lee.
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