Having been soundly beaten in an error-strewn display at Wembley, Wane side’s were much improved on Saturday back in the rugby league heartlands of northern England.<\/p>\n
In a rousing opening period, England forced mistakes from the Kangaroos and had all the field position and possession, but crucially did not make it count on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
Tellingly, England have now scored just one try over 160 minutes, with St Helens hooker Daryl Clark barging over late on in the loss in London. <\/p>\n
In contrast, Australia have racked up six in two games – and when mistakes began to creep into the hosts’ play just after the break, it was a case of when, not if, they were going to be severely punished. <\/p>\n
First Cameron Munster went over, and then so too did Hudson Young. From being level at 4-4, England were 10 points adrift.<\/p>\n
“Proud for the majority of the game. I thought for 70 minutes we were good,” said Wane. <\/p>\n
“The switch off for 10 minutes after half-time hurt us immensely. Munster’s first try was soft and should not be scored in a Test match. <\/p>\n
“We’re devastated. So proud the players had a dig but so disappointed with that after half-time, which cost us dearly.”<\/p>\n
While the next World Cup in Australia and Papua New Guinea is just under 12 months away, England’s immediate focus will be on trying to restore some pride, avoiding a series whitewash and eradicating the mistakes that irritated Wane.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to see more thrown at Australia. I wanted us to build pressure in the game – we didn’t do that last week,” added the 61-year-old.<\/p>\n
“We did this week. It’s just a bit of detail in our attack where we could have put them under more pressure. We need to defend both [tries] better. <\/p>\n
“Fair play to Australia – that is no detriment to them. They turn up and are ruthless when they get a chance, and we weren’t, but defensively we can and should do better.<\/p>\n
“They will be obsessed to win 3-0 and we need to be obsessed to make it 2-1. I’ve said that to the players. It has to be our obsession. It’s going to be a tough week but whoever wants it the most will get the win next week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having been soundly beaten in an error-strewn display at Wembley, Wane side’s were much improved on Saturday back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}