{"id":287898,"date":"2023-09-07T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=287898"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:35:34","slug":"youngs-confident-england-can-overcome-turbulent-build-up-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/rugby-union\/youngs-confident-england-can-overcome-turbulent-build-up-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngs confident England can overcome turbulent build-up vs Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ben Youngs is confident England can overcome turbulent build-up to Rugby World Cup ahead of Argentina opener<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>England begin their Rugby World Cup campaign against Argentina on Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>England have lost three of their four warm-up matches in a disastrous build-up\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But Ben Youngs thinks Steve Borthwick&#8217;s side can turn it on when it counts\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ben Youngs is refusing to get swept up in the outside noise surrounding England&#8217;s Rugby World Cup hopes as he readies himself for his fourth attempt at winning the sport&#8217;s pinnacle prize.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Rugby World campaign begins on Saturday night when they take on Argentina in Marseille in Pool A (8pm kick-off).<\/p>\n<p>Steve Borthwick&#8217;s side have endured a horrid build-up to the tournament by losing three out of their four warm-up matches, losing several players to injury while captain\u00a0Owen Farrell and sole No 8 Billy Vunipola are suspended for the start of this month&#8217;s showpiece in France.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/00\/75146123-12488903-image-a-2_1694042000441.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ben Youngs insists he and his England team-mates are ignoring the outside noise around them<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/00\/75146757-12488903-image-a-9_1694043713391.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England face Argentina in their Rugby World Cup opener off the back of a disrupted build-up<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/00\/75146815-12488903-image-a-10_1694043821864.jpg\" height=\"361\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Steve Borthwick&#8217;s side lost three of their four warm-up matches &#8211; including a shock loss to Fiji<\/p>\n<h3>England&#8217;s Rugby World Cup group matches\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Argentina &#8211; September 9 (Marseille)<\/p>\n<p>Japan &#8211; September 17 (Nice)<\/p>\n<p>Chile &#8211; September 23 (Lille)<\/p>\n<p>Samoa &#8211; October 7 (Lille)<\/p>\n<p>Expectations for England are low, but for veteran scrum-half Youngs he refuses to listen to those concerns having experienced differing fortunes while preparing for the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup squads he was a part of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s different every time. If I look back to 2011, we won the Six Nations and lost the Grand Slam and we lost in the quarter-final to France,&#8217; the 33-year-old told Mail Sport at the Wear the Rose event at the O2 Arena last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In 2015 we had a brilliant Six Nations and didn&#8217;t get out of our pool, so I don&#8217;t take too much from what&#8217;s gone on previously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t look at what we&#8217;ve done in this Six Nations or where we are right now, because everything we&#8217;re doing is aiming towards we at our best in round one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I see huge amount of growth in our game, every performance and every day in training, I see us getting a step closer to where we need to be and I believe we&#8217;ll be there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/00\/75145489-12488903-Youngs_and_Cole_were_speaking_to_Mail_Sport_at_the_Wear_the_Rose-a-11_1694043906376.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>England scrum-half Youngs spoke to Mail Sport at the Wear the Rose event at the O2 Arena<\/p>\n<p><span>England Rugby&#8217;s most Unstoppable fan crowned at O2 event with full 33-player squad, winning unlimited England Rugby home match tickets until 2025!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12488903\/Ben-Youngs-confident-England-overcome-turbulent-build-Rugby-World-Cup-ahead-Argentina-opener.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ben Youngs is confident England can overcome turbulent build-up to Rugby World Cup ahead of Argentina opener England begin their Rugby World Cup campaign against <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/rugby-union\/youngs-confident-england-can-overcome-turbulent-build-up-vs-argentina\/\" title=\"Youngs confident England can overcome turbulent build-up vs Argentina\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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