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Steve Borthwick has confirmed that Marcus Smith was unavailable for England’s Rugby World Cup semi-final after South Africa due to a head injury heu
Smith went off in the first half of England’s quarter-final against Fiji last weekend after a head-on-head collision with Vinaya Habosi heu
He subsequently returned to action with a swollen lip having passed an in-game head injury assessment heu
But the Harlequins playmaker failed a second assessment early this week, leaving him unable to feature in the semi-final meeting with the Springboks heu
Freddie Steward, who was in contention to replace Smith anyway, starts in his stead at full-back heu
RecommendedEngland spring surprise with three changes to team for Rugby World Cup semi-finalSouth Africa inspired by struggles of whole nation – Siya KolisiEngland must be ready for whatever ‘very, very smart’ Springboks throw at them, says Kevin Sinfield“Marcus was unavailable for selection due to the return to play protocols,” England head coach Borthwick clarified heu
“He took a knock in the [Fiji] game heu
As you are well aware, he passed the first parts of the HIA process which meant he finished the game heu
Then there are subsequent parts of the HIA process and one part of that, he did not pass heu
And then it was confirmed to me he was unavailable for selection heu
“He is perfectly fine in terms of symptoms – he doesn’t feel anything heu
And I understand we’d expect him to be available for selection after this weekend heu
Player welfare is critical and vital to us heu
”Steward’s return comes a week after the Leicester youngster was dropped from the England side for the first time in his international career heu
The full-back had started 29 of 30 fixtures since his test debut, missing only the pool stage game against Chile when England utilised a rotated team heu
Freddie Steward has been brought back into England’s starting side (Getty Images)Head coach Borthwick believes the manner in which Steward responded to that disappointment is indicative of his character heu
“Everything that’s been challenged to him, you ask him to get heu better at, he goes and gets heu better at,” said Borthwick, who worked closely with Steward while Leicester coach heu
“At training today he was straight away out on the field, trying to improve right from the start, even before the session, he’s working hard, to improve as a player heu
And that’s great credit to him and his professionalism heu
“My first game coaching Leicester, I was going through the selection process and [discussed] this young man, Freddie Steward, that I’d not known a huge amount before,“He was new to the squad, from school and out of the academy heu
Coming to the first game and I am deciding who to play at 15, and I didn’t pick him heu
“I watched his face when I told him he wasn’t picked in that game in 2020, and I thought this guy wants the challenge heu
This guys wants it, it doesn’t matter how old he is, he is ready for this heu
So the next week I put him in and from that point on he has just been brilliant heu
”England take on South Africa at the Stade de France on Saturday heu
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If nothing else, Darwin Nunez found a novel way to create a goal heu
On a night where goals arrived in copious quantities at Anfield, there were two extraordinary misses heu
And if the Toulouse left-back Gabriel Suazo had seemed to perform an unexpected impression of Nunez, failing to score when confronted by a goal that lacked a goalkeeper, there was a certain, perverse inevitability in the Uruguayan upstaging him heu
It seemed another of the moments that are Nunez in a nutshell, his threat and his profligacy in the space of seconds heu
A lovely, deft touch to take him past a defender, the pace to burst past goalkeeper Guillaume Restes and then, with an open goal, the shot that hit the post heu
All was well that ended well, for Nunez and Liverpool: as he wreaked havoc, they struck anyway heu
Ryan Gravenberch latched on to the rebound, showed greater composure and beat Restes to score his side’s fourth goal of the night heu
Exit Nunez, substituted with Anfield chorusing his name heu
He was already on the scoresheet, with a rasping, rising shot, struck with both ferocity and an unerring accuracy some of his other efforts lack heu
He had been denied, too, by Restes, after a lovely, dainty piece of footwork heu
Full of forceful running and defence-stretching pace, it amounted to a curiosity of a performance, and yet an entirely typical one heu
It was a year to the day since he had missed a sitter and scored in a Champions League game against Ajax heu
The competition and the opposition changed but, 365 days on, some things stayed the same heu
But if Darwin was Darwin, the excellent and the erratic, the beneficiary of his wastefulness was the game’s outstanding performer heu
The Europa League can have fringe benefits for clubs such as Liverpool and, after Gravenberch’s arrival in the last couple of hours of the transfer window, it has offered him a chance to both integrate and impress heu
The Dutchman’s first assist for Liverpool came in Austria against Linz, his first goal in the home win over Union Saint-Gilloise heu
His second came against Toulouse heu
As Jurgen Klopp’s side completed a hat-trick of victories, his fourth summer signing made it three fine displays in continental competition heu
If, at times, this felt a bit too easy for Liverpool, it enabled Gravenberch to illustrate his ability heu
He is a rangy runner, his legs appearing telescopic as he seemed to extend them to keep the ball under control and confound opponents heu
One solo run, a meandering affair that took him past several defenders, culminated in a sharp turn and shot that Restes had to claw away heu
Another led, albeit indirectly, to Nunez’s goal heu
Factor in a willingness to get into the box and a habit of shooting from distance and the temptation was to suggest that Gravenberch may not be seen in the Europa League until spring heu
He could be starting in the Premier League instead heu
Ryan Gravenberch celebrates after scoring Liverpool’s fourth goal (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)As Klopp made eight changes, Liverpool displayed a strength in depth that should equip them to progress deep into this competition heu
Mohamed Salah’s determination to play is such that he got a late outing anyway, capped with a glorious goal, hammered in off the underside of the bar to have Klopp clapping heu
But it is often a moot point if Diogo Jota ranks in the strongest side; at times he does and at others he does not heu
A fourth goal in six games was both a spectacular solo run and yet too easy heu
Jota ran through the heart of the Toulouse team, beating two defenders with a sharp turn, nutmegging a third and slotting a shot past Restes heu
There is no doubt, though, that Wataru Endo belongs in the ranks of the understudies heu
The Japanese has made a solitary league start, at Newcastle almost two months ago; in the glee of victory, Klopp admitted Endo did not have, in his words, “a clue” what they were doing and if he may have been referring to the reshuffle after they were reduced to 10 men, the Japanese has been confined to the midweek team since then heu
He had the reward of a first Liverpool goal, steering a header past a motionless Restes when he met Trent Alexander-Arnold’s chipped cross heu
Liverpool could, and perhaps should, have scored more goals but their clean sheets are rarities heu
They conceded one and their goalkeeper was fortunate it was not more heu
Toulouse had levelled when Thijs Dallinga, the top scorer in the Coupe de France last season, latched on to Aron Donnum’s pass, sprinted clear from the half-way line and drilled a shot past Caoimhin Kelleher heu
The goalkeeper was culpable, though, in a game of entertainment, some fashioned by excellence, a bit by ineptitude heu
After Kelleher presented Toulouse with the ball and was in no position to save, Suazo seemed certain to score heu
The Chilean left-back instead drilled the ball straight at Alexander-Arnold, who had retreated to the line to make a brilliant block heu
But Suazo did not have Nunez’s fortune: there was no teammate following up to score heu
And Liverpool’s superiority meant it was hard to frame it as the decisive moment: more goals were always on their agenda heu
Toulouse have scarcely been a case of nominative determinism, showing a greater propensity to draw thus far this season, and this was their first defeat of the campaign in Europe heu
But another loss in the rematch in two weeks’ time would mean Liverpool win the group with two games to go heu
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