{"id":21505,"date":"2025-08-03T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/packer-in-doubt-england-crushes-spain-97-7-heading-to-the-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:10:28","slug":"packer-in-doubt-england-crushes-spain-97-7-heading-to-the-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/packer-in-doubt-england-crushes-spain-97-7-heading-to-the-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Packer in doubt: England crushes Spain 97-7, heading to the Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Doubt about Marlie Packer&#8217;s participation in the World Cup after expulsion<\/h2>\n\nMarlie Packer&#8217;s availability for the start of the World Cup is in doubt after being sent off in England&#8217;s resounding 97-7 victory over Spain.\n\nThe experienced flanker, who captained her country in Leicester, was sent off 19 minutes from the end for an illegal action against Spanish fullback Claudia Pena.\n\nWith the &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; preparing to play against France next weekend in their final preparation match before their World Cup debut against the United States on August 22, Packer will face a disciplinary hearing to determine her fate.\n\nHelena Rowland scored a hat-trick at Welford Road, as England&#8217;s preparations to compete for world glory at home began in relentless fashion.\n\nThe versatile player, who was hailed as &#8220;probably the most valuable person&#8221; on the &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; team by coach John Mitchell after being named a starter on the right wing, scored two of the seven tries in the first half.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maddie Feaunati (number eight), Lucy Packer (scrum-half), Jess Breach (wing), Sarah Bern (prop) and Jade Shekells (centre) also scored in the first 40 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nBern registered his second try at the start of the second period before Rowland completed his hat-trick two minutes later and second-row Lilli Ives Campion added another for the top-ranked nation in test rugby.\n\nSpain, ranked 13th in the world and set to face Ireland in Group C of the World Cup, managed a good consolation in the 53rd minute through Pena, a 19-year-old Harlequins player, which was converted by fly-half Amalia Argudo.\n\nFullback Emma Sing extended England&#8217;s lead before replacements May Campbell, Hannah Botterman and Abby Dow and vice-captain Megan Jones completed the scoring after captain Packer&#8217;s early exit.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt about Marlie Packer&#8217;s participation in the World Cup after expulsion Marlie Packer&#8217;s availability for the start of the World Cup is in doubt after being sent off in England&#8217;s resounding 97-7 victory over Spain. The experienced flanker, who captained her country in Leicester, was sent off 19 minutes from the end for an illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[509,6760,6253,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-21505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-england","9":"tag-marlie-packer","10":"tag-red-roses","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}