Rassie Erasmus predicts entire England team for World Cup semi-final as mind games begin

As mind games start, Rassie Erasmus forecasts the full England squad for the World Cup semifinal. As he lapped up the media attention ahead of Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final, the director of rugby for South Africa expects that England will make changes from their quarter-final victory against Fiji.

<p>Rassie Erasmus was in a playful mood with the media on Tuesday</p>

At a press conference in Presles, 30 kilometers north of Paris, at the beginning of semi-final week, Erasmus was addressing the media for the second day in a row. The final four match is not scheduled to be announced until Thursday, but the former head coach of the Springboks showed up with a tentative starting fifteen that he believed Steve Borthwick would be taking into consideration. And when asked whether he would read it out, Erasmus agreed and went on to identify almost the whole matchday 23, leaving out only the substitute hooker.”[Jamie] George, [Kyle] Sinckler, [Ellis] Genge,” said Erasmus at the outset.[Tom] Curry, [Ben] Earl, [Courtney] Lawes, [Maro] Itoje, [Ollie] Chessum.

“[Joe] Marler, [Dan] Cole, George [Martin], Billy [Vunipola], Ben Youngs or Danny [Care], George Ford, and Ollie [Lawrence]” is the bench that follows in order.

Erasmus has suggested making one or two changes to the England starting lineup from the quarterfinal match against Fiji. Kyle Sinckler will start at tighthead prop instead of Marcus Smith, while Freddie Steward will be the starting full-back. Borthwick, a more subdued figure who does not like to play press games, is not likely to respond to the gambit.

When England was getting ready for a semi-final match against the All Blacks four years prior, head coach Eddie Jones went on the attack, claiming that someone had been snooping on the team’s training and speaking to the media earlier than normal in the week.

At this week’s England training session at the French National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance on the outskirts of Paris, defense coach Kevin Sinfield talked up their opponents and implied that the reigning champions lacked a glaring weakness. However, there were no such accusations made.

<p>England lost the 2019 World Cup final to South Africa </p>

Erasmus, meanwhile, thinks that because of the final loss in Yokohama four years ago and the 27–13 setback at Twickenham in November that ended Jones’s tenure, England and the Springboks will have a “beef.”

Erasmus clarified, “I think they’ll have some gripe with us since they played us at the Rugby World Cup final and at the end of the year last year. “Losing the World Cup is something that will always hurt.” “It was you guys who took it away from us,” we would always believe throughout the following several games we played against Australia after we lost the World Cup as players. That’s how England will feel, too. “We would like it back, you guys took it away from us.”

“I don’t mean to seem harsh, but I think that’s the nature of professional sports. In addition to wanting to solve issues, you also want to inspire pride in your people, your nation, and your team. That’s how I believe the English team will need to be. They truly intend to fight until the very end.

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