There were reasons to be cheerful in wet and windy Cape Town in midweek. England might have a better scrummaging future judging by the efforts of the Red Rose U20 scrum in knocking their South African counterparts onto the back foot to win 17-12 in their third consecutive pool victory of the World Rugby U20 Championship.
The continuous scrum pressure applied by loosehead Asher Opoku-Fordjour, who played the full 80 minutes, hooker Craig Wright, and tight-heads Billy Sela and Afolabi Fasogbon, gave the England U20s the edge in a war of attrition against a big, dogged Junior Springbok pack.
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