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Luke McLaughlin

England 27-10 Argentina: Rugby World Cup 2023 – as it happened

England's fly-half George Ford kicks a penalty kick during the France 2023 Rugby World Cup Pool D match between England and Argentina at Stade de Marseille.
England triumphed courtesy of the trusty right boot of George Ford. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty

So there you have it. England might not have such a bad World Cup, after all. Back to the drawing board for Argentina.

Thanks for reading tonight, and emailing in – see you tomorrow for Wales v Fiji.

The players of England form a huddle at full-time following the Rugby World Cup France 2023 match between England and Argentina at Stade Velodrome in Marseille.
The England celebrate after starting their World Cup campaign with a convincing victory. Photograph: Michael Steele/World Rugby/Getty Images

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Borthwick has a chat with ITV: “I enjoy this job, I enjoy working with this group of players. They’re a fantastic group and I’m really pleased for them tonight. I’m also pleased for the supporters. I said there was going to be a lot of English supporters in the crowd, and there certainly was.

“The team loves the supporters, and they really benefited from the way they got behind us tonight.”

On the Curry sending off: “Each incident is different … we’ll have a good look at the incident … it will go through a disciplinary process now and it would be wrong for me to start commenting on it.

“As I said before, there was a feeling, a sense I had from the players, that they’d been written off a bit too early … and what I think is a really quality group of players who are going to keep improving. I think we’re going to move forward, our focus now shifts to Japan … we’re going to enjoy this, and England supporters here will enjoy it, and I hope they’re enjoying it in the pubs at home.

“Our focus is going to move to Japan. That’s our next opponent. We’ll enjoy tonight, the players deserve to enjoy it. But our focus is going to go on to Japan next Sunday.”

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