ENGLAND FORM GUIDE
FULL BACK ELLIOT DALY AGE: 26 CAPS: 34 FELT the wrath of Henry Slade for over-running a try-scoring pass against Tonga so execution must improve.
WING RUARIDH McCONNOCHIE AGE: 27 CAPS: 1 LINES up against Martin Losefo, a former rival from the sevens circuit before he switched to XVs last year.
CENTRE JONATHAN JOSEPH AGE: 28 CAPS: 43 SET up the bonus-point try against Tonga and has an opportunity to impress in light of Slade’s knee injury.
CENTRE PIERS FRANCIS AGE: 29 CAPS: 8 COULD be on the end of some heavyweight collisions with 18st former NFL player and Mormon missionary Paul Lasike.
WING JOE COKANASIGA AGE: 21 CAPS: 8 GIANT winger makes his World Cup debut — five days after his cousin Waisea Nayacalevu scored for Fiji against Australia.
FLY-HALF GEORGE FORD (C) AGE: 26 CAPS: 60 NEEDS to rally those around him to execute better after a number of slippery balls were dropped against Tonga.
SCRUM-HALF WILLI HEINZ AGE: 32 CAPS: 5 WILL look to provide slicker and faster ball, after England struggled to reach wide-men against Tonga.
PROP JOE MARLER AGE: 29 CAPS: 63 NEEDS to turn the screw at scrum time against a USA front row including 19-year-old rookie David Ainu’u.
HOOKER LUKE COWAN-DICKIE AGE: 26 CAPS: 16 HAD the stepladder out to practise lineout throwing with Steve Borthwick. He has three tries in his last five Tests.
PROP DAN COLE AGE: 32 CAPS: 90 PRAISED for improving his fitness as he goes level with Jonny Wilkinson as England’s third most capped player.
2nd ROW JOE LAUNCHBURY AGE: 28 CAPS: 61 SAID at the press conference that the ball will be slippy so forwards will need to hold their depth in attack.
2nd ROW GEORGE KRUIS AGE: 29 CAPS: 36 WORLD-CLASS lineout technician will hope to dominate set-piece against two locks who play in England’s second tier.
BLINDSIDE TOM CURRY AGE: 21 CAPS: 14 KAMIKAZE KID will use all of his inside knowledge from Sale to get into the face of AJ MacGinty and disrupt the US attack.
No 8 BILLY VUNIPOLA AGE: 26 CAPS: 46 MANY expected the irreplaceable ball-carrier to be rested so Eddie Jones will be praying he comes through unscathed.
OPENSIDE LEWIS LUDLAM AGE: 23 CAPS: 3 PRIMED to go head to head with a familiar face — former Ipswich RFC junior team-mate Will Hooley.
SUBSTITUTES
Jack Singleton, Ellis Genge, Kyle Sinckler, Courtney Lawes, Mark Wilson, Ben Youngs, Owen Farrell, Anthony Watson.
USA
Will Hooley; Blaine Scully (c), Marcel Brache, Paul Lasike, Martin Iosefo; AJ MacGinty, Shaun Davies; David Ainuu, Joe Taufete’e, Titi Lamositele; Ben Landry, Nick Civetta; Tony Lamborn, Cam Dolan, John Quill. SUBSTITUTES: Dylan Fawsitt, Olive Kilifi, Paul Mullen, Greg Peterson, Hanco Germishuys, Ruben De Haas, Bryce Campbell, Mike Te’o.