Rugby Union: England Make Just One Change for Argentina Clash
Andy Robinson's England will face Argentina on Saturday with 14 of the 15 starters who were battered by New Zealand two day ago.
England have made just one change for next Saturday's Test match against Argentina, with Perpignan prop Perry Freshwater replacing Andrew Sheridan.
Despite Sunday's record 40-21 loss to the World Cup favourites New Zealand, England's head coach Robinson has resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes.
The Perpignan prop Perry Freshwater takes over from Andrew Sheridan in the only change to the starting XV, although Wasps lock Tom Palmer, uncapped Newcastle centre Toby Flood and fit-again World Cup winner Josh Lewsey all feature on the bench.
Palmer replaces Chris Jones, with Flood in for Leicester fly-half Andy Goode and Lewsey preferred to his club colleague, the full-back Mark Van Gisbergen.
Lewsey has made a rapid recovery from the knee injury which forced him off during Wasps' Heineken Cup defeat against Perpignan, and could now win his first cap since last season's Six Nations Championship.
An agreement between England and Premier Rugby means Robinson will not field the same player in more than three of the autumn Tests - his team face back-to-back appointments with South Africa later this month - so changes for one of the Springbok clashes are inevitable.
Robinson's immediate priority, though, is to halt a run of six successive defeats stretching back to a Six Nations victory over Italy in Rome almost nine months ago.
England have not lost seven straight matches since 1972, but that is the stark statistic facing Robinson's team if they come unstuck against a quality Pumas outfit.
Full team: I Balshaw (Gloucester); P Sackey (Wasps), J Noon (Newcastle), A Allen (Gloucester), B Cohen (Northampton); C Hodgson (Sale Sharks), S Perry (Bristol); P Freshwater (Perpignan), G Chuter (Leicester), J White (Leicester), D Grewcock (Bath), B Kay (Leicester), M Corry (Leicester, capt), L Moody (Leicester), P Sanderson (Worcester).
Replacements: L Mears (Bath), S Turner (Sale Sharks), T Palmer (Wasps), M Lund (Sale Sharks), P Richards (Gloucester), T Flood (Newcastle), J Lewsey (Wasps).
Despite Sunday's record 40-21 loss to the World Cup favourites New Zealand, England's head coach Robinson has resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes.
The Perpignan prop Perry Freshwater takes over from Andrew Sheridan in the only change to the starting XV, although Wasps lock Tom Palmer, uncapped Newcastle centre Toby Flood and fit-again World Cup winner Josh Lewsey all feature on the bench.
Palmer replaces Chris Jones, with Flood in for Leicester fly-half Andy Goode and Lewsey preferred to his club colleague, the full-back Mark Van Gisbergen.
Lewsey has made a rapid recovery from the knee injury which forced him off during Wasps' Heineken Cup defeat against Perpignan, and could now win his first cap since last season's Six Nations Championship.
An agreement between England and Premier Rugby means Robinson will not field the same player in more than three of the autumn Tests - his team face back-to-back appointments with South Africa later this month - so changes for one of the Springbok clashes are inevitable.
Robinson's immediate priority, though, is to halt a run of six successive defeats stretching back to a Six Nations victory over Italy in Rome almost nine months ago.
England have not lost seven straight matches since 1972, but that is the stark statistic facing Robinson's team if they come unstuck against a quality Pumas outfit.
Full team: I Balshaw (Gloucester); P Sackey (Wasps), J Noon (Newcastle), A Allen (Gloucester), B Cohen (Northampton); C Hodgson (Sale Sharks), S Perry (Bristol); P Freshwater (Perpignan), G Chuter (Leicester), J White (Leicester), D Grewcock (Bath), B Kay (Leicester), M Corry (Leicester, capt), L Moody (Leicester), P Sanderson (Worcester).
Replacements: L Mears (Bath), S Turner (Sale Sharks), T Palmer (Wasps), M Lund (Sale Sharks), P Richards (Gloucester), T Flood (Newcastle), J Lewsey (Wasps).
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