Steve Borthwick: France defeat shows how much work England have to do

Steve Borthwick admitted England have been brutally uncovered by a report 53-10 defeat by France that exposed the gulf between the rivals.

England collapsed to their heaviest loss at Twickenham of all time after leaking seven tries, enabling Les Bleus to report a primary Guinness Six Nations win on the venue since 2005.

France, positioned second within the world rankings and the present Grand Slam champions, have been answerable for one of many darkest days in English rugby historical past and Borthwick admitted the efficiency was not ok.

“We’re incredibly disappointed. Immense credit to France – their power, pace and class showed. It shows where the gap is,” Borthwick stated.

“No one is beneath any illusions about what we want to do. We’ve been fairly up entrance about that all through.

“We needed to perceive precisely how the event of this staff has gone and the place we’re at in contrast to one of the best groups on the planet. We fell significantly quick, that’s the fact.

“The key component is that we all know the place we’re. It shows simply how much work we have to do. France confirmed simply how much higher they’re than us.

“I said we’d have a good understanding of where we’re at as a team by the end of the Championship and you can see how much work we’ve got to do.

“France were able to dominate the tackle area and offload. While we understood that was a major threat we weren’t able to stop it.”

Having been thrashed out of sight by France of their third heaviest defeat of all time, England should now choose themselves up off the ground earlier than taking up Six Nations pacesetters Ireland in Dublin.

“I’m pretty disappointed and we have a lot of work to do and it shows where we are at,” captain Ellis Genge stated.

“We lost the contact area and chased tails and everyone will write us off and that’s brilliant – we just want to get better.

“France are brilliant and have shown why they are number two in the world and we are way off where we want to be.

“We probably need to be a lot better in the contact area and that is down to the forwards and there were some harsh lessons.”

France boss Fabien Galthie was delighted by a victory that provides his aspect hope of retaining their title heading into the ultimate spherical subsequent weekend.

“I’ve been coming to Twickenham for a long while – 20 years. It’s emotional,” Galthie stated.

“We played well, how we wanted to. We wanted to do that, we didn’t know how, but we wanted to do that.

“We’ve not been satisfied by our Six Nations. We wanted to do something here. The players wanted to put in a big game against England.”