Jamie George was happy with the best way England tailored to the warmth and humidity of Tokyo’s Nationwide Stadium to crush Eddie Jones’ Japan 52-17.
Aside from patches of the primary and ultimate quarters, Steve Borthwick’s males have been in whole management as they warmed up for his or her two-Take a look at collection towards New Zealand by operating in eight tries.
“It was a very powerful recreation. The situations have been very troublesome. I’m very proud with the best way we went about our enterprise,” mentioned England captain George, talking on RugbyPass TV.
“It was all the time going to be very troublesome to come back over right here and get the consequence, however we’re very proud of that.
“It took us a short while to get used to the situations however off the again of that we have been actually environment friendly with the ball and moved the ball into area.
“We’ve bought some actually proficient backs with a whole lot of velocity and we managed to point out that.”
England got here up towards Jones for the primary time since he was sacked by the Rugby Soccer Union 18 months in the past however their former boss had no surprises up his sleeve for the launch of his second time period answerable for Japan.
“Japan are a incredible staff. We knew they’d be properly drilled and we clearly know Eddie very properly. We couldn’t have extra respect for him as an individual and a coach,” George mentioned.
“Japan performed with very excessive tempo and I feel they are going to be very profitable over the following few years.”
Marcus Smith orchestrated England’s brightest moments within the first-half, to justify his choice at fly-half forward of Fin Smith, however the late dismissal of Charlie Ewels for a harmful clear-out of Michael Leitch positioned a cloud over the efficiency.
Ewels was proven a yellow card that was upgraded to pink by the bunker overview system to earn him the undesirable distinction of turning into the nation’s first participant to be despatched off twice.
“I’m actually happy with the consequence and I believed the appliance of the gamers was actually glorious,” head coach Steve Borthwick mentioned.
“Clearly late within the recreation our cohesion broke up just a little towards a really quick and skilful Japanese staff who took their possibilities very well.
“The ball motion of the Japanese staff was actually glorious and you may inform that over the following time period their staff goes to develop.
“They play in a sure means and are very, very harmful and we needed to defend very well to maintain them out, particularly in that first 20 minutes.”
There was no fairytale return for Jones, whose younger Japan aspect have been taken aside in most sides of the sport to disclose the extent of the rebuilding challenge dealing with the Australian.
“It was a reasonably powerful recreation for us. England are a powerful, highly effective staff,” Jones mentioned.
“However I used to be actually happy with our set-piece work which saved us within the recreation for a protracted time period.
“We’ve been engaged on issues in our assault and we created alternatives however we weren’t in a position to end them.
“Our motion across the ball nonetheless isn’t sharp sufficient. However there may be actual potential right here for Japanese rugby.”
