Rugby League World Cup rolls on with the final Pool A action featuring England v Greece, which we’ll name in honour of the best ever Greek-English exponent Prince Philip.
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England v Greece Final Score
ENGLAND 94
Tries: Matty Lees 2′ Dominic Young 12′ Dominic Young 24′ Ryan Hall 27′ Thomas Burgess 32′ Dominic Young 34′ Dominic Young 36′ Gorge Williams 39′ Tommy Makinson 41′ Marc Sneyd 48′ Thomas Burgess 52′ Ryan Hall 58′ Joe Batchelor 62′ Andy Ackers 66′ Kai Pearce-Paul 72′ Andy Ackers 74′ Mike McMeeken 76′
Goals: Marc Sneyd 13/17
GREECE 4
Tries: Siteni Taukamo 17′
England v Greece Match Stats
England v Greece Preview
Table: W/D/L/F/A/FA/Pts
| England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 24 | 78 | 4 |
| Samoa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 64 | 14 | 2 |
| France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 54 | -2 | 2 |
| Greece | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 106 | -90 | 0 |
Like a few games in the last week, this one should be a mere formality. Undefeated table leader taking on a winless minnow.
England were simply sensational in their first game against Samoa, setting themselves up for the group stage win in Pool A.
They were tested a little more against France, but got the job done and prevailed none-the-less, and we presume they look like they are testing out the squad players ahead of guarter final action.
Looking at the stats, it’s been a real team performance from England so far, with very few of their players in the top 10 of any major running or playing stat. The exception being Dom Young who is fourth for run metres and with his easiest game yet to play in the group stages.
Greece have certainly not been hopeless in the Rugby League World Cup thus far. They were quite competitive against France in their first game, but they were blown away by a Samoan side living up to their potential last start. Despite them giving their all, and a few players standing out, you can’t see past a thrashing with scoring a try or two their best hope.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
With some squad rotation we will now see a glimpse of Kai Pearce-Paul in action.
Jack Welsby, who was one of our players of the match from England’s first game v Sampa gets a run at fullback with Sam Tompkins given the night off.
Dominic Young should be among the tries again, and will no doubt cause the Greek side plenty of trouble.
There’s no Billy Magoulias unfortunately, so we’ll have to try harder for a Greek player to watch. The obvious answer is the Rabbitohs halfback Lachlan Ilias, but we’ll suggest a team mate of his Peter Mamouzelos. The Greek hooker is on the fringe of the Rabbitohs side, but we think has looked really good thus far, and one more good game against quality opposition to show that he deserves more NRL game time.
PREDICTION
England 68 Greece 10
England v Greece Teams
ENGLAND
6 Jack Welsby
5 Ryan Hall
12 John Bateman
24 Kai Pearce-Paul
14 Dominic Young
21 Marc Sneyd
7 George Williams
8 Thomas Burgess
19 Andy Ackers
18 Chris Hill
15 Morgan Knowles
20 Mike McMeeken
13 Victor Radley
10 Luke Thompson
16 Matty Lees
17 Mike Cooper
23 Mikolaj Oledzki
GREECE
3 Terry Constantinou
2 Siteni Taukamo
4 Nick Mougios
21 Konstantinos Katsidonis
5 Johnny Mitsias
7 Jordan Meads
6 Lachlan Ilias
10 Stefanos Bastas
9 Peter Mamouzelos
12 Nicholas Flocas
14 Jake Kambos
25 Adam Vrahnos
16 Sebastian Sell
11 Mitchell Zampetides
17 Theodoros Nianiakas
19 Liam Sue-Tin
22 Ioannis Rousoglou
England v Greece RLWC2021 Stats
Here are some averages for key stats for each side.
England v Greece Pre Match Stats
