England continued their dominance in the second-half with Ellis Genge getting on the scoreboard and Guy Porter scoring his second try. Manu is 100 per cent on board with his plan. Whenever you have a powerful player with soft-tissue injuries, you have to experiment a little bit. There's no textbook for managing players [who are injury prone]. Its a matter of cohesion between us and Sale on the medical staff. He's in a really good position now. He trained with us yesterday and looks in a really good spot. That's something not lost on Farrell, who said this week: "It’s finishing those chances off that was the work-on. Being a bit calmer after we do make the breaks and seeing where the opportunity is thereafter. It’s not like we didn’t create opportunities [against Argentina] in the conditions that we played in, but obviously we weren’t good enough to finish them off. The changes hopefully don’t make a difference to where we’re going with that. Hopefully they add to that, which is the key.”

There is also a sooner-than-anticipated return for Jamie George, who occupies the hooker bench spot, after breaking his foot on club duty.

Eddie Jones reacts to our defeat to Argentina. #ENGvARG— England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) November 6, 2022

There is also a return for Jonny May on the left wing in place of Cokanasiga. May's return comes just three weeks after England's second-highest men's try-scorer suffered a dislocated elbow playing for Gloucester against London Irish, with the wing making a remarkable recovery. What is clear is that on the evidence of the performances of France, South Africa, Ireland and Fiji so far, England remain a considerable distance behind the World Cup contenders. Replacements: Atsushi Sakate, Craig Millar, Asaeli Ai Valu, Warner Dearns, Kanji Shimokawa, Naoto Saito, Dylan Riley, Lomano Lemeki

However, with Owen Farrell available again from suspension next week ahead of the game against Chile and Tom Curry returning from his two-game ban for the final pool game against Samoa, England at least have another foothold to build on, particularly the momentum generated in the final quarter. Last week, George Ford’s tactical nous - drop goals included - paved the way for an England victory after the red card to Curry. Tony Brown, Japan assistant coach, has this week hailed the impact of England’s fly-half. Explaining the decision to drop Tuilagi to the bench in favour of Leicester centre Guy Porter, Jones said it was "all about workload".

First-half tries from Freddie Steward, Marcus Smith and Guy Porter saw the home side take a 24-6 lead at the break.Saracens hooker Jamie George is named on the bench, having recovered from a foot injury suffered at the start of October sooner than expected given he was initially ruled out until December.