{"id":37019,"date":"2025-09-21T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/meg-jones-england-to-the-womens-rugby-world-cup-final-to-inspire\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:13:08","slug":"meg-jones-england-to-the-womens-rugby-world-cup-final-to-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/meg-jones-england-to-the-womens-rugby-world-cup-final-to-inspire\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Jones: England to the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup final, to inspire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meg Jones: &#8220;The victory against France was just what we needed&#8221;<\/h2>\n\nEngland center, Meg Jones, has acknowledged that the hard-fought semi-final victory over France was &#8220;exactly what we needed&#8221; before next week&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup final.\n\nThe &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; secured their place in their seventh consecutive final with a 35-17 victory in Bristol, although the score suggests it was an easier afternoon than it actually was.\n\nFrance dominated ball possession with 61%, and although England was more effective, they were forced to work hard to achieve their successes, making 231 tackles against France&#8217;s 90.\n\nJones, who lived up to his reputation with four ball recoveries, stated that it was the type of battle his team had been looking for before the final.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I asked one thing of the girls and it was that they choose with what intensity they were going to hit and inspire the person next to them,&#8221; Jones told the media. &#8220;At 100% I believe that&#8217;s exactly what we needed. Everyone is always going to have an opinion on how we play and how the game is, but let me tell you that defense defines us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Meg Jones<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0921%2Fr1548782_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Inglaterra se enfrentar\u00e1 a Canad\u00e1 en la final de la Copa Mundial Femenina de Rugby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n&#8220;I think we have a lot of heart and desire in this team and we are also enjoying what we do. I hope you see the fun out there, there are good celebrations and we are trying to enjoy the game as much as we can.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;The pressure is already great, let&#8217;s not make it any greater. Let&#8217;s enjoy it as it is.&#8221;\n\nCanada awaits at next week&#8217;s event, with the prospect of winning the World Cup at home in front of 80,000 fans at Twickenham, something exciting for Jones.\n\n&#8220;I was holding back the tears [after the semi-final], because I think it&#8217;s everything we&#8217;ve worked for,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;It&#8217;s huge for us. Honestly, I think the most important thing is to inspire a nation and girls and boys from all over the country, I am very proud of what we have built and what we continue to build.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;We will enjoy the moment we have had together. There will be many songs and we know we will return to it soon [on Sunday], a great day of recovery, a great week ahead.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve earned another week, and we&#8217;ll try again.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Jones: &#8220;The victory against France was just what we needed&#8221; England center, Meg Jones, has acknowledged that the hard-fought semi-final victory over France was &#8220;exactly what we needed&#8221; before next week&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup final. The &#8220;Red Roses&#8221; secured their place in their seventh consecutive final with a 35-17 victory in Bristol, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[509,175,203,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-37019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-england","8":"tag-final","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019","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=37019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}