England v Wales: Teams
Two of the unbeaten teams in the RBS Six Nations will meet in a mouth-watering clash at Twickenham on Saturday.
Last Updated: 24/02/12 2:54pm
Two of the unbeaten teams in the RBS Six Nations will meet in a mouth-watering clash at Twickenham on Saturday.
Somewhat surprisingly, England will be the underdogs despite having home advantage and winning on the road against Scotland and Italy.
Wales, in fact, have only won once at Twickenham since 1998 - however they will fancy their chances of securing the Triple Crown on Saturday.
Having edged past Ireland in Dublin, they were then too strong for Scotland and look to be showing the same form that took them to the World Cup semi-finals.
England have made four changes for the encounter - with Ben Morgan, Geoff Parling and Lee Dickson all set to make their first starts.
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Manu Tuilagi is the other player to come into the side, with the powerful centre - who scored against Wales at Twickenham last year in a World Cup warm-up game - profiting from a finger injury to Charlie Hodgson.
Tuilagi, who missed the games against Italy and Scotland with a hamstring injury, had been expected to start on the bench, but he comes in after Owen Farrell was switched to fly-half.
Tuilagi's Leicester team-mate Toby Flood does start among the replacements, though, where he is joined by Courtney Lawes and dropped duo Phil Dowson and Ben Youngs. Lock Tom Palmer misses out completely.
The bad news for England is that Wales captain Sam Warburton has been passed fit to play after pulling out of the game against Scotland with a thigh injury.
Warburton replaces the unlucky Aaron Shingler as one of three changes.
Fit-again Alun-Wyn Jones is preferred to Ryan Jones in the second row, while hooker Ken Owens makes his first Wales start as Huw Bennett and Matthew Rees are both injured.
England: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 David Strettle, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Chris Robshaw (capt), 6 Tom Croft, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Mouritz Botha, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Alex Corbisiero.
Replacements: 16 Rob Webber, 17 Matt Stevens, 18 Courtney Lawes, 19 Phil Dowson, 20 Ben Youngs, 21 Toby Flood, 22 Mike Brown.
Wales: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 George North, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Sam Warburton (capt), 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Ian Evans, 4 Alun-Wyn Jones, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Ken Owens, 1 Gethin Jenkins.
Replacements: 16 Richard Hibbard, 17 Paul James, 18 Ryan Jones, 19 Justin Tipuric, 20 Lloyd Williams, 21 Stephen Jones, 22 Scott Williams.