Hill and Owen start for England Under-20s

Warriors pair Ted Hill and Kai Owen will start for England Under-20s in their World Rugby Under-20 Championship fifth-place semi-final against Ireland in Rosario on Monday (kick-off 7.30pm BST).

Hill scored a brace of tries to help England to a bonus point victory over Australia in their final pool match in Santa Fe on Wednesday. He switches from the blindside flank to number eight against Ireland.

Loosehead prop Owen was an unused replacement against Australia but returns to the starting XV as one of two changes made by Head Coach Steve Bates.

“We felt it was important to give the majority of the side that played against Australia another go as it was by far our best performance of the tournament. The challenge for our squad now is to back up that performance with one that is better,” Bates said.

“We cannot approach it with any degree of complacency or lack of acknowledgment that it took a lot of hard work, commitment and team work to perform at that standard against Australia. We’ve got to keep moving forward as a team and continue to develop.

“This will be the third time we’ve played Ireland this season and in both games discipline has let us down, so we’ve got to the learn the lessons from those two fixtures.”

England Under-20s
15 Tom de Glanville (Bath Rugby)
14 Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints)
13 Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints) – captain
12 Cameron Redpath (Sale Sharks)
11 Josh Hodge (Newcastle Falcons)
10 Manu Vunipola (Saracens)
9 Sam Maunder (Exeter Chiefs)
1 Kai Owen (Worcester Warriors)
2 Will Capon (Bristol Bears)
3 Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers)
4 Joel Kpoku (Saracens)
5 Alex Coles (Northampton Saints)
6 Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs)
7 Aaron Hinkley (Gloucester Rugby)
8 Ted Hill (Worcester Warriors)

Replacements
16 Nic Dolly (Sale Sharks)
17 Olly Adkins (Gloucester Rugby)
18 James Kenny (Exeter Chiefs)
19 Tom Willis (Wasps Rugby)
20 Rusiate Tuima (Exeter Chiefs)
21 Ollie Fox (Yorkshire Carnegie)
22 Connor Doherty (Sale Sharks)
23 Tom Seabrook (Gloucester Rugby)
24 Luke James (Sale Sharks)
25 Ollie Hassell-Collins (London Irish)

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