Farrell: We didn’t fire a shot after the break

OWEN Farrell admitted Wales’ strategy to pile the pressure on England’s kickers paid off.

The Red Rose half-backs employed the same territorial strategy that worked wonders in the opening two round of the Six Nations.

But Warren Gatland’s men dominated the skies and forced Farrell into rush kicks, and the England captain believes the pressure told on the scoreboard.

“Every team tries to put the halfbacks under pressure, they put their scrum-half on me to rush the kicks which probably happened a couple of times,” said Farrell.

“We made a few errors, myself included in that, and they did what they do well. We just couldn’t get out of our own half.

“They went hard at the ruck to try and disrupt Ben (Youngs) as well, even though I thought Ben kicked really well.

“We can definitely be better in those areas and they did very well at getting the ball back and doing what they wanted to do which was put the pressure on us.”

Youngs and Farrell kicked the ball 28 times between them but struggled to make any progress up the field in the second period.

In the end it was a pinpoint kick from Wales replacement Dan Biggar that saw Josh Adams seal the record breaking triumph for Warren Gatland’s side.

Eddie Jones’ men had only 35 per cent of the territory as they got on the wrong side of referee Jaco Peyper.

There is still Six Nations title hope for England if Wales slip-up against Scotland or Ireland and they pick up bonus-point wins against Italy and Scotland.

Farrell added: “The most disappointing thing is that we couldn’t get any momentum at the end of the game. We have to look at how we can wrestle that momentum back now.

“Wales didn’t surprise us, we knew they were going to be passionate and we knew they would come after us.

“We got a couple of calls against us and we didn’t manage to build enough pressure. It didn’t feel like we fired a shot.”