USA 5-40 England: Lightning in Washington DC affects dominant win

United States (0) 5

Tries: Klein

England (19) 40

Tries: Langdon, Northmore, Murley, Van Poortvliet, Randall, Oghre Cons: Ford 4, Atkinson

England cruised past the United States successful a lucifer successful Washington that had astir 2 hours of delays due to the fact that of lightning strikes successful the area.

Kick-off successful the US superior was held up by an hour, with play successful the one-off Test starting astatine 18:05 section clip (23:05 BST) connected Saturday.

England led 14-0 successful the 29th infinitesimal erstwhile much reports of atrocious upwind forced Scottish referee Sam Grove-White to instrumentality the players disconnected the tract for a further 40 minutes.

On some occasions, supporters wrong the 20,000-capacity Audi Field successful Washington were told to "exit the seating bowl" and "seek structure successful the concourse" connected a connection connected the stadium's video screen.

Despite the upwind delays, England inactive managed to shine, scoring six tries to extremity their circuit of Argentina and the United States with a cleanable three-win record.

Steve Borthwick's broadside started the lucifer well, taking the pb done Curtis Langdon aft a maul successful the 11th minute, portion Luke Northmore crossed nether the posts 7 minutes later. Both tries came with the USA down to 14 players with Chris Hilsenbeck successful the sin-bin.

Alex Dombrandt and debutant Joe Carpenter past had tries chalked disconnected aft TMO reviews, earlier Cadan Murley deservedly added England's 3rd people by crossing connected the near helping connected the changeable of half-time.

Straight aft the restart, Jack van Poortvliet went implicit portion replacement Harry Randall produced a superb dummy to people successful the 62nd minute.

Gabriel Oghre finished England's sixth try, but the Red Roses were incapable to wholly unopen the US out, arsenic Shilo Klein crashed implicit successful the country close astatine the end.

Alongside Sale full-back Carpenter, Bath centre Max Ojomoh, Gloucester 2nd enactment Arthur Clark and Gloucester fly-half Charlie Atkinson each made their England debuts.

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso besides returned after his two-match ban arsenic Borthwick made 12 changes to the England broadside who bushed the Pumas successful San Juan successful their 2nd Test.

Earlier astatine Audi Field, the USA's women survived a precocious complaint to bushed Fiji 31-24.

Several sporting fixtures successful the US this summertime person been delayed due to the fact that of adverse upwind conditions.

Washington is 1 of 27 cities, including Chicago, New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, to person expressed an involvement successful staging matches erstwhile the United States hosts the 2031 Men's and 2033 Women's Rugby World Cups.

Last month, in the Fifa Club World Cup, lightning strikes delayed Benfica's lucifer with Auckland City successful Orlando, Florida, by astir two-and-a-half hours.

Later successful the aforesaid tournament, Benfica's lucifer against Chelsea successful Charlotte, North Carolina, was held up by 1 hr 53 minutes against Chelsea due to the fact that of lightning.

Storms besides delayed the United States' 31-20 nonaccomplishment to Spain successful Charlotte past Saturday.

USA: Storti; McLean, Besag, Pittman, Fricker; Hilsenbeck, De Haas; Lindenmuth, Geiger, Davis, Redelinghuys, Naqali, Bonasso (c), Daniel, Fa'Anana Schultz.

Replacements: Klein, Iscaro, Kofe, Helu, Poidevin, Alikhan, Smith, Futi.

England: Carpenter; Feyi-Waboso, Northmore, Ojomoh, Murley; Ford (c), Van Poortvliet; Rood, Langdon, Opoku-Fordjour, Coles, Clark, Cunningham-South, Pepper, Dombrant.

Replacements: Oghre, Baxter, Davison, Hill, B Curry, Randall, Atkinson, Beard.