Genge ground another penalty out of Zander Fagerson two minutes after the restart. George Ford clipped it over for 24-13.<\/p>\n
The Scotland front row were backed up once more. Another penalty and Murrayfield sat a little less easy.<\/p>\n
As Ford dropped back into the pocket to line up a drop-goal on 53 minutes, it felt like the drip-drip scoreboard pressure was set to grow.<\/p>\n
But Ford, who 15 months ago missed a late drop-goal to beat the All Blacks, had not given himself enough space.<\/p>\n
Matt Fagerson, fresh off the bench, was too quick. Charge-down, try, England’s Grand Slam dreams in the dust and Scots dancing in the stands.<\/p>\n
England’s bomb squad came on, but didn’t really go off. Scotland held them at bay and finished in comfort.<\/p>\n
Borthwick said Ford’s charged-down drop-goal was influential in the outcome, but far from the only cause of England’s defeat.<\/p>\n
“This is a team that has reeled in a lot of opponents over a long period of time,” he said of his side.<\/p>\n
“It’s 24-13, you get that drop-goal, 24-16 and with 24 minutes left, that’s a different complexion.<\/p>\n
“That 10-point swing was clearly a big point in the game, but there’s plenty of other smaller moments in the game that added up to that result.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genge ground another penalty out of Zander Fagerson two minutes after the restart. George Ford clipped it over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-427297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427297","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=427297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}