Fin Smith will start at fly-half for England.\u00a0ANDY BUCHANAN \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Welcome to ESPN’s live updates as Italy host England in the fourth round of the Six Nations.<\/p>\n
There are two games left following the fallow week, with plenty at stake for both sides heading into the final rounds.<\/p>\n
– Can Scotland deny France Grand Slam? England at risk of historic loss?<\/a> Italy are chasing a first-ever win over England, while Steve Borthwick’s side are looking to avoid a third-straight defeat.<\/p>\n Jamie George, Alex Coles, Guy Pepper, Ben Spencer, Fin Smith, Cadan Murley, Seb Atkinson, Tom Roebuck and Elliot Daly will all start, while Marcus Smith is named on the bench.<\/p>\n The entire backline has been changed from the one that lost to Ireland with Spencer and Fin Smith starting at half-back, replacing the injured Alex Mitchell and George Ford, who has been dropped from the matchday squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fin Smith will start at fly-half for England.\u00a0ANDY BUCHANAN \/ AFP via Getty Images Welcome to ESPN’s live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-525008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Power rankings: England plummet, Ireland’s title hopes still alive<\/a><\/p>\n