HIGHLIGHTS | ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA | AUTUMN NATIONS SERIES 2024

10 past 2 on a Sunday morning in Sydney, 10 past 11 on a Saturday night in Perth, 10 past 3 on a Saturday afternoon here in London, England and Australia. Smith, kick, Lawrence, chase, Lovaseo comes across, it's Lawrence who gets there first. Ball bouncing up pleasingly from an English perspective, Spencer and Curry and George and it is a still day, no breeze to worry about. Off it goes, Gebert a thud, Gebert the direction, England 5, Joe Schmitz Australia 3. It's an angled round the corner line, here goes Genge, taken quickly, what a start to his afternoon, what a start to England. Straight and true and England put all the way through the match, 15-3. So Gordon with this free ball, Iketau, Gordon, Kelleway and now then Soali'i, oh the offload from Soali'i and the try, scored by Tom Wright. 20 seconds left of the 60 that Smith has to line this up. Valentini again, it's Will Stewart who was offside to Poe, he knew he could do that. Iketau, McDermott, oh he's gone, little step now and then the trick but the ball away and Wilson's there. England led by a dozen midway through that first half, Chandler coming himself with two tries but Australia and the ball away to Frost once again. Just protecting that handy blind side to the left that Australia are working hard to exploit now. McBride gets it away, try scored. These guys were five to one with the bookmakers before the match. Henry Slade waits, he's got Lawrence and Smith just behind him. Smith comes to this left-hand side, here he is, slight home, Soali'i was doing what he could to get backwards but Lawrence was in front, Dombran, England win. Australia towards a Lions visit, Slade, Ford it nearly caught on. Australia creaking, England hoping, ball's there, so too Finn Baxter. McDermott with Slipper waiting. They got their attacking shape back a little bit now, one more carry in there, expect the backs to have a go. Tayanga Amosa takes it in, 83rd minute and here's one of the players of the match, Joseph Soali'i. This is Balotini who's had another stormer as well. Tayanga Amosa, tipped on, McBride, still the skills from the volleys, Iketau, oh this is Jorgensen, test match rugby. Australian rugby players, we're just saying there's guys blitzing out the line there, you'll just see. Now the opportunity, what an offload that is, out the back of the hand, Iketau was it? Yeah, that is brilliant, Smith goes for the intercept and then once it's in Jorgensen's hands you're not stopping him.