Stuart Lancaster name unchanged England to face France

Stuart Lancaster has kept faith in the match-day squad that beat Ireland 12-6 in Dublin naming the same 23 players to face France on Saturday.
Following their opening 38-18 win over Scotland at Twickenham in the opening round, England then traveled to Dublin to clinch a very hard fought win and remain the only side left in the competition chasing the Grand Slam.
At the other hand of the spectrum, France travel to HQ on the back of two defeats against Italy and Wales.
However, Lancaster is adamant his men are not under estimating the French who will cross The Channel with a backs against the wall attitude and nothing to lose.
He said: “”It’s far too early on the back of two games to say France aren’t a good side. They beat Australia 33-6 in the autumn and Australia then beat us.
“While we’ll take something out of their first two Six Nations games, we’ll also take something out of those autumn internationals and make sure we’re ready for them.
“If you go through the players who will play against us and when you see them in their club colours they are good, experienced, tough, big, physical players. So it ain’t going to be easy.
“But we’ve had 30 plus guys pushing hard for selection this week, which is what we want. We had to make some close calls but the team did very well in Ireland so we’ve gone with the same squad against France. We are looking forward to getting back to Twickenham against what I am sure will be a highly motivated French team.”
England Squad
Forwards: Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (London Wasps), Joe Launchbury (London Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Mako Vunipola (Saracens), David Wilson (Bath Rugby), Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints), Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers).
Backs:Chris Ashton (Saracens), Brad Barritt (Saracens) , Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Owen Farrell (Saracens), Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers), Alex Goode (Saracens), Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers) , Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers).
The following players have been released back to their Aviva Premiership clubs: Mouritz Botha (Saracens), Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Elliot Daly (London Wasps), Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints), Will Fraser (Saracens), Ben Foden (Northampton Saints), Matt Kvesic (Worcester Warriors), Ben Morgan (Gloucester Rugby), David Strettle (Saracens), Henry Thomas (Sale Sharks), Joel Tomkins (Saracens), Billy Vunipola (London Wasps).