Matt Dawson column: ‘I have not seen a complete England performance like that for many years’
Defensively, no one in England puts anyone in the game, they are actively retreating rather than competing for the ball.
They just have a wall that basically says to Wales: “We are supporting our one-on-one defense in our physical condition and you are not going to break us”.
The number of mistakes they make and do is high compared to wasting energy trying to compete with each failure.
Wales is driving out a lot of energy and England invites them to move forward.
This is a classic Mohamed Ali Rope. England patiently absorbed everything, waiting for Wales to make mistakes before playing football.
Wales have no ability to change their game plan, they are just isolated. They didn’t try to pick and go through the middle, they slammed themselves.
With about 10 or 12 minutes, England scored 14-0, Wales tried one, but Maro Itoje and the leaders made some significant contributions to each other, and since then they were almost flawless, they were almost flawless and then back to patience.
Intensity, operational speed, processing, decisions about when to choose and when to find overlap are all performed to a high level. Some of the moves in the short team also played a great advantage and rear speed.
You know that there are 10 minutes to go, Wales will not be able to put one foot on the other. They gave everything, didn’t make many mistakes, but they just didn’t have personnel.
It was the best England performance of the Borthwick era in a mile, which could mean that some of their players played in the UK and Irish Lions Tour this summer.
Look at the effect of this on the Welsh lad who fell in 2013. This gave them great confidence in the rest of their professions.
There is no reason why England players involved can’t do this, which could affect teams in the coming years.
