Two days after France swept aside Ireland 36-14 with a statement performance on the opening night, Steve Borthwick’s men responded by breaching the Welsh whitewash seven times to register their 12th successive Test win.<\/p>\n
Arundell celebrated his first Test start since the 2023 World Cup by running in three first-half tries and there were also touch downs for Ben Earl, Toe Roebuck and Tommy Freeman, as well as a penalty try.<\/p>\n
George Ford directed play masterfully at fly-half and England’s precision in the first-half was impressive, but they took their foot off the pedal after the interval against opponents who had discovered their stomach for the fight.<\/p>\n
Crisis-stricken Wales hastened their downfall with a brainless first-quarter disciplinary implosion that conceded 10 penalties in 21 minutes and saw front rows Nicky Smith and Dewi Lake sent to the sin-bin.<\/p>\n
Errors compounded across their game and apart from an improved second half, Wales’ 12th consecutive Six Nations loss in a run dating back to 2023 was more evidence of how far they have fallen.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the afternoon, Italy rocked the Six Nations by ambushing Scotland 18-15 in Rome but at Twickenham it quickly became clear another upset was unthinkable.<\/p>\n
Instead, by the end of the opening quarter England had surged 15-0 ahead through two simple Arundell finishes, both of them set-up by Ford who displayed his pinpoint passing and kicking for the assists.<\/p>\n
But the drama extended beyond the scores with Wales’ early disciplinary wobble placing them in an impossible position.<\/p>\n
By the 16th minute referee Pierre Brousset warned Lake he would start to issue yellow cards in response to the rising penalty count – it stood at five – and within a minute Smith and Lake were in the sin-bin.<\/p>\n
Earl was getting through a mountain of work and after England had attacked one corner, they swept left where their number eight had the strength to touch down.<\/p>\n
When a rare Welsh attack broke down, the ball was slipped to Arundell who completed his hat-trick before left wing Roebuck also got in on the action by crossing early in the second half.<\/p>\n
In a sign of how easy it had been, Roebuck had three unmarked white shirts outside him who could also have scored.<\/p>\n
Maro Itoje was sin-binned seconds after stepping off the bench and Wales rounded off a promising spell with Josh Adams gathering a Dan Edwards kick and strolling over.<\/p>\n
England had lost their spark but with visiting centre Ben Thomas in the sin-bin and the impressive Earl moved to centre, they rediscovered their mojo with Pollock forcing a penalty try.<\/p>\n
Taine Plumtree joined Thomas in receiving a yellow card and Wales were back down to 13 men, but Tom Curry then incurred the wrath of the busy Brousset for a no arms tackle.<\/p>\n
Freeman had the final say with a powerfully finished try, although England will know they left points begging in the second half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days after France swept aside Ireland 36-14 with a statement performance on the opening night, Steve Borthwick’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-286478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}