{"id":663825,"date":"2026-10-24T07:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663825\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:10:18","slug":"canada-31-22-england-red-roses-suffer-back-to-back-losses-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663825\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada 31-22 England: Red Roses suffer back-to-back losses to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

WXV Global Series<\/p>\n

Canada (12) 31<\/p>\n

Tries: Omokhuale, De Goede 3, Bauder Cons: De Goede 3<\/p>\n

England (7) 22<\/p>\n

Tries: Feaunati, Cokayne, Sing Cons: Harrison, Sing Pens: Harrison<\/p>\n

Head coach John Mitchell said England need a “new stimulus” after losing 31-22 to Canada in the WXV Series in Ottawa to suffer back-to-back defeats for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n

The hosts ran in five tries to England’s three, including a hat-trick for captain Sophie de Goede, as they backed up last weekend’s 24-21 win in Toronto,<\/a> which ended the Red Roses’ 41-match unbeaten streak, with another statement victory.<\/p>\n

It completes a 2-0 series win for Canada after the two sides also shared a 26-26 draw in Exeter in September. <\/p>\n

After losing multiple matches in a calendar year for the first time since 2016, world champions England head into their meeting with the USA in New Jersey next Friday (21:15 GMT) hoping to avoid three consecutive losses for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n

England made a promising start, Maddie Feaunati crashing over from close range inside 10 minutes, but Canada hit back twice in quick succession through Julia Omokhuale and De Goede to lead 12-7 at the break.<\/p>\n

Zoe Harrison kicked a penalty early in the second half before England turned to their driving maul to overturn the deficit, Amy Cokayne walking in their second score.<\/p>\n

However, De Goede restored her side’s lead three minutes later and completed her hat-trick just after the hour-mark before Savannah Bauder danced down the left wing to put Canada out of sight.<\/p>\n

Emma Sing bagged a consolation try for England in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps we have become a little bit predictable,” said Mitchell, who arrived in Canada unbeaten as England head coach. “Definitely I’ll have to create with the girls the new stimulus in the new year.<\/p>\n

“Test matches of this quality, the best teams in the world, it always comes down to execution. We presented ourselves many an opportunity and we just didn’t quite execute.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WXV Global Series Canada (12) 31 Tries: Omokhuale, De Goede 3, Bauder Cons: De Goede 3 England (7)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-663825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663825","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=663825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}