{"id":35357,"date":"2025-09-17T05:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/england-relaxing-night-before-rugby-world-cup-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:39:38","slug":"england-relaxing-night-before-rugby-world-cup-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/england-relaxing-night-before-rugby-world-cup-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"England: Relaxing Night Before Rugby World Cup Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>England Seeks Bonding with &#8220;Pamper Night&#8221; Before Semifinal Against France<\/h2>\n\nRosie Galligan revealed that England is planning a &#8220;pamper night&#8221; to strengthen team bonds before the World Cup semi-final against France on Saturday at Ashton Gate.\n\nThe &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; arrive at &#8220;Le Crunch&#8221; as favorites, but aware of the &#8220;war&#8221; ahead, they will disconnect from rugby during a night of indulgence at their hotel in Bristol.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Actually, we&#8217;re having a pamper night on Wednesday, where we&#8217;ll all bring our own face masks and wear pajamas to go to our team room to watch a movie together.<\/p><cite>Rosie Galligan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>These moments are what truly unite and bring us together, so that when we are in the field, we are in a war together.<\/p>\n\n\nEngland has won its last 18 matches against France since 2018, but in their last two home encounters, they barely managed to withstand their Six Nations rivals&#8217; comebacks.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0916%2Fr1546679_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jugadoras de Inglaterra celebran durante su victoria de cuartos de final de la Copa del Mundo sobre Escocia.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jugadoras de Inglaterra celebran durante su victoria de cuartos de final de la Copa del Mundo sobre Escocia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThey won 38-33 in 2023 and 43-42 in 2025, but on both occasions they collapsed after building impressive leads.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Le Crunch is the best and probably similar for the French. When you go as a visitor, that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s really special.<\/p><cite>Rosie Galligan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIt&#8217;s always a pretty hostile environment when we go to France and, similarly, when the French women come here. They seem to come alive and always want to beat us at home.\n\nIt&#8217;s just another rugby match, but that Franco-English rivalry is something that is not taken for granted.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England Seeks Bonding with &#8220;Pamper Night&#8221; Before Semifinal Against France Rosie Galligan revealed that England is planning a &#8220;pamper night&#8221; to strengthen team bonds before the World Cup semi-final against France on Saturday at Ashton Gate. The &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; arrive at &#8220;Le Crunch&#8221; as favorites, but aware of the &#8220;war&#8221; ahead, they will disconnect from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[509,684,203,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-35357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-england","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-semifinal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357","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=35357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}