{"id":696032,"date":"2026-07-17T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:20:13","slug":"argentina-v-england-visitors-name-unchanged-starting-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696032\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina v England: Visitors name unchanged starting XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack van Poortvliet starts at scrum-half for the third successive Test, with Ben Spencer brought on to the bench in place of Alex Mitchell, who suffered a hamstring strain last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton prop Emmanuel Iyogun is set to win his first cap after being named as loose-head cover among the replacements. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, who came on for Ellis Genge against Fiji, is primed for a run in his more usual front-row slot, as back-up to tight-head Joe Heyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England: M Smith; Freeman, Slade, Atkinson, Feyi-Waboso; F Smith, Van Poortvliet; Genge, George, Heyes, Coles, Martin, Chessum, Pepper, Earl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Iyogun, Opoku-Fordjour, Curry, Pollock, Spencer, Janse van Rensburg, Caluori.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pollock, who has scored six tries despite all but one of his Test appearances coming off the bench, and 19-year-old Caluori, who topped the domestic try-scoring charts with Saracens, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c2ey8ldn8jdo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both pushing for promotion to the starting line-up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Janse van Rensburg is new to the team, having only become eligible to play for England earlier this month after five years playing in the Prem and the Rugby Football Union&#8217;s successful challenge over whether a single replacement appearance for South Africa&#8217;s under-20 side tied him to the Springboks at senior level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pretoria-born 29-year-old is expected to be given more chances to prove himself in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We expect a fantastic atmosphere with passionate home support,&#8221; said head coach Steve Borthwick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It promises to be a great occasion, and one the players are excited to embrace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have 10 full-blooded Test matches until the start of next year&#8217;s Rugby World Cup, with this encounter with the Pumas followed by autumn matches against New Zealand, Australia, Japan and a yet-to-be-confirmed southern-hemisphere opponent in the Nations Championship finals weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Six Nations campaign, which begins away to Ireland, will be their final action before preparations for the tournament begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack van Poortvliet starts at scrum-half for the third successive Test, with Ben Spencer brought on to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696032","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\/696032","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=696032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}