- Italy 0-33 England
- Italy consigned to 34th consecutive defeat in the competition
Two rounds into the 2022 Six Nations championship and still it is hard to know what to make of Eddie Jones’s “new England”.
Despite this comfortable-looking scoreline they remain a distinct work in progress and their remaining opponents will not, on this evidence, be overly intimidated. Rather than lighting up the Eternal City as their coach had invited them to do, this was more of a flickering Roman candle.