Six Nations 2025: Maro ITOJA DESIGN IN CRITICS IN THE ENGLISH AND EXPECTS A ‘POINT’ AGAINST ‘AGAINST Italy | News of rugby
Maro Itoje returned the attack of the critic of England as they seek a strong end to Guinness’s six nations.
The side of Steve Borthwick remains in the title, but they sit in fourth place in the table to try out behind France, Ireland and Scotland, after moving only eight times in three games.
In order to strengthen his background, Borthwick prepared Marcus Smith and Henry Slade, and gave the beginning of Elliot Daly and Fraser Dingwall, who is one of the five Northampton players behind Scrum.
Early in the second half two weeks ago against Scotland because of the amount of blows in the box, with the 2003 World Cup winner. Will Greenwood among those who criticized the lack of influence they made with the ball in their hand.
“I don’t think our attack is as bad as everyone says,” ITOJA told reporters ahead of Sunday’s conflict against Italy at the Allianz Stadium.
“The first game against Ireland, we achieved three attempts. The second game against France we scored four. We obviously only scored last time against Scotland, but it does not reflect an attack that cannot even start the engine.
“Don’t get me wrong, we want to improve. We want to improve ourselves in that. But I don’t think we’re moving from a bad place.
“We want options on the line. We want to go where the space is. We want 15 players to be fully engaged in this. And we want to be brave and brave with that.”
Italy visits England on Sunday in search of the first victory in the fixture, losing all 31 previous matches, and Azzurri entered the match on the back of 73-24 by France.
“This week means a step forward,” Itoje added. “In this competition, everyone is dangerous, everyone can create the problems of the teams.
“The Italian game was a little worse and down, but they showed both sides. They showed that they could cause teams a lot of problems and will not be too pleased with their result against France.
“We want to win. We want to win well. But let’s do that, we have to do all the difficult things that rugby requires. It won’t be a easy game.”
Curry rejects criticism of English style
Two victories of England came with a combined margin of two points and their rugby was often far from free flow, but Tom Curry insists that it is not fair to criticize the side for lack of smell.
“Fair or not, it’s a pretty confident way of saying that,” Curry said Sky Sports News. “You have to look at it objectively in the sense that there are two different games. Therefore, there can be no comparison – it’s like a comparison of chalk and cheese. They are almost two different sports.
“Do we want to play better? Do we want to attack better? Absolutely. But do we want to say,” Let’s do it as a prime minister? “No, that doesn’t work.
“This is one of the stairs. We went with the fall – where we lost those games – so far where we win them. We know that the next step is to win them well, but it’s easier to say than to do.”
Jamie George, set up for his cap of the 100th English this weekend, added: “I think the way the games played out meant that we were not necessarily able to put a game plan on the field we wanted.
“I think this week is more about us, focusing on us and how we can put our game plan on the field, no matter what the opposition is doing. It requires to be brave and it requires that we try to get back behind the ball.
“We honestly want to play a good, expansive, offensive game, and I hope that is what you see on Allianz this weekend.”
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