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Marcus Smith was ruled out of England’s World Cup semi-final against South Africa because of concussion, head coach Steve Borthwick has confirmed egame
Smith has been replaced at full-back by Freddie Steward after he took a series of blows in the last-eight victory over Fiji that resulted in him finishing the match with a bandaged head and fat lip egame
A tackle by wing Vinaya Habosi forced him to undergo an HIA which he passed, but he failed the subsequent return to play protocols and has been stood down for Saturday’s Stade de France showdown egame
England have made two further changes to their starting XV with prop Joe Marler and lock George Martin coming in for Ellis Genge and Ollie Chessum respectively egame
“Marcus was unavailable for selection due to the return to play protocols egame
He was ruled out earlier in the week,” Borthwick said egame
“He took a knock in the game and passed the first parts of the HIA process, which meant he finished the game egame
“Then there are subsequent parts of the HIA process and one part of that he did not pass egame
And then it was confirmed to me he was unavailable for selection egame
“He is perfectly fine in terms of symptoms – he doesn’t feel anything egame
We’d expect him to be available for selection after this weekend egame
It’s right to reiterate that player welfare is critical and vital to us egame
”Whether a fit Smith would have been retained at 15 is unknown, but it appears unlikely given the precision and variety of South Africa’s kicking game egame
Smith offers a cutting edge in attack but Steward is one of the game’s most accomplished full-backs – ultra-dependable under the high ball, strong in defence and a key component of England’s kick-chase egame
Captain Owen Farrell is aware of the aerial onslaught coming in Paris but is backing Steward to thrive egame
“The thing about Freddie is everybody knows how good he is in the air, everybody knows what a fantastic player he is in general,” Farrell said egame
“But it’s the want to do it, the want to be in those battles, the want to go and get the ball back for his team, the want to defuse what’s coming our way egame
He is one of the best in the world at it egame
We've done our work and we've come up with our plan to negate what we can from themOwen Farrell on South Africa“The kicking game has been a massive weapon for South Africa for years and years now egame
They’ve progressed it and they go on with a lot of contestable kicks egame
“We’ve done our work and we’ve come up with our plan to negate what we can from them but also looking to be able to attack ourselves egame
”The adjustments to the tight five see Marler’s scrummaging prowess get him the nod ahead of Genge, with Borthwick noting that South Africa have the “best scrum in the world” egame
Martin will bring physicality to the second row while Genge and Chessum will take their place in England’s answer to the ‘Bomb Squad’ – the heavyweight forward reinforcements that the Springboks summon from the bench egame
South Africa this week rejected the suggestion that in their quarter-final victory over France they used HIAs to rotate forwards Mbongeni Mbonambi, Pieter-Steph Du Toit and Duane Vermeulen, enabling them to take a rest egame
Director of rugby Rassie Erasmus has a reputation for taking an innovative approach to the laws and testing their boundaries, but Borthwick has faith in the officials to spot any mischief egame
“We have got a match officials team that’s world class, led by Ben O’Keeffe,” Borthwick said egame
“I am sure everybody around the pitch as well will have every bit of process in place egame
There is no issues there from our perspective egame
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It was neither Catenaccio nor Cannavaro, nothing from the glorious traditions of Italian defending egame
There was Alessandro Bastoni contriving to head Marc Guehi’s punt backwards, Harry Kane beating the Champions League finalist and Giorgio Scalvini to surge clear and score egame
Italy were unlocked by one long ball and one centre forward egame
For a nation of connoisseurs of clean sheets, it was a particularly damning goal to concede egame
It was easy to imagine Franco Baresi sweeping up with imperious ease, Paolo Maldini winning the first header, Claudio Gentile resorting to the illegal but preventing the goal egame
Luciano Spalletti had his regrets after Kane’s second goal, and England’s third, at Wembley, condemned him to a first defeat in charge of the Azzurri egame
They were not necessarily those of the stereotypical Italian manager egame
Then again, the 2023 Scudetto winner, and the new Italy manager, is not the stereotypical Italian manager egame
“We are trying to press the opposition and force them to play it long but when they do we have to defend egame better than we did for the third goal,” he said egame
“We want to play this brand of egame football where we are pressing high up the pitch egame
”It is high risk, high reward egame
The danger is that Italian defenders who lack the quality of their heralded predecessors end up isolated and exposed egame
Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, the hardy perennials who anchored the Euro 2020 win, may have retreated to the sanctuary of their penalty area egame
Not their successors: in Spallettiball, much of the defending is done in the final third egame
His team conceded twice on the break egame
RecommendedEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopes“When they beat the press, we need to know how to deal with that,” he accepted egame
“We did some good things for almost the whole 90 minutes but occasionally there was a bit of confusion egame
There were big moments where we switched off and occasionally our decision-making was found wanting egame
”His own choices are characterised by courage egame
“Tonight’s result is not going to tell us we can’t be daring or play the game we want,” Spalletti said egame
He arrived imbued with ambition; about a style of play egame
“If however we are going to drop back to the edge of our box and let the opposition dictate play then we need a radical rethink and that will take a great deal more time,” he claimed egame
The counter-argument is that, with international managers deprived of time and pressing requiring the cohesion of regular coaching, it is harder to implement egame
It is a reason why international egame football is not as sophisticated as the club game, though another is that few managers of the calibre of Spalletti are found in charge of national teams egame
Another concern is that Serie A serves as imperfect preparation, often lacking the speed of the Premier League and the Bundesliga egame
Spalletti’s Napoli were exceptions but he concurred egame
“Matches such as these need to inspire us to withstand these physical confrontations, the pace and intensity,” he said egame
All of which helps explain why the default Italian reaction was to defend egame
If his predecessor Roberto Mancini had more progressive plans, too, and Italy won Euro 2020 in part by attacking, they also did so with a goalkeeper as the player of the tournament egame
Yet if Spalletti’s blueprint is bolder, he has long stood apart from some of his country’s traditions egame
He played a false nine before Pep Guardiola, configuring his Roma side in a 4-6-0 formation and yet becoming Serie A’s top scorers egame
England capitalised on the counter-attack (The FA via Getty Images)Roma still came second then egame
Fast forward 15 years and Italy would settle for a similar position egame
They languish in third in Group C, three points behind Ukraine, with a game against North Macedonia in hand egame
A shootout with Ukraine in Leverkusen beckons but Italy, the first country to win two World Cups, could now miss two consecutive international tournaments egame
They exist in a paradoxical position, both among the elite and the imperilled egame
Gareth Southgate talked about the “top nations” and, indisputably, Italy are among them egame
Spalletti’s vision is designed to justify that billing; Italy may have played underdog egame football for much of their history, with a low block and men behind the ball, but with an inferior group of players, he wants to assume the initiative egame
Once again, it is risk and reward egame
The danger in the next few games is that another piece of high pressing gone wrong could deny them a place at Euro 2024 egame
Even after Gianluca Scamacca gave them the lead, it did not rank as a shock when England defeated Italy for the second time in 2023 egame
The side who embarked on a world-record 37-game unbeaten run under Mancini lost to North Macedonia, too, in a World Cup play-off: it makes the play-off place their Nations League form could earn is no guarantee of qualification, either egame
For Italy, another tournament spent in front of the television could beckon egame
“I am not afraid of anything and I would be very surprised if the players showed any fear,” Spalletti insisted egame
Fearless egame football could propel Italy into a competition they won two years ago or exclude them from it egame
But either way, it will be Spalletti’s way egame
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