England faces the holders at Yokohama hoping to improve their record of seven wins in 41 meetings and Mehrtens believes Eddie Jones’s men can prevail with a simple plan.
“How do you do that? You slow them down at the tackle … you build yourself up for a massive defensive effort to come up fast and smack them in multiple tackles and not let them go forward. Mehrtens said England would have to swap fluidity for a tactically sound effort when they have the ball. “Beat them up and smother them. While it may get called ‘smothering’, no one cares if it works … this is not about providing a spectacle. It is about getting results.
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