{"id":26381,"date":"2025-02-18T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-team-v-scotland-ollie-chessum-to-make-first-test-start-in-nearly-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:41:32","slug":"england-team-v-scotland-ollie-chessum-to-make-first-test-start-in-nearly-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-team-v-scotland-ollie-chessum-to-make-first-test-start-in-nearly-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"England team v Scotland: Ollie Chessum to make first Test start in nearly a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ollie Chessum will make his first England start in nearly a year after being named in the second row for Saturday&#8217;s Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Allianz Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chessum partners captain Maro Itoje at lock, with George Martin dropping to the bench in the only change to the squad that beat France in round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marcus Smith continues at full-back, with Fin Smith again starting at fly-half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have lost their past four matches against Scotland, with their most recent victory coming at Murrayfield in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts are looking to keep alive their title hopes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c14nyg1zjp2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">overcoming France 26-25<\/a> in thrilling style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland, having won their opening game against Italy, are looking to bounce back after a disappointing defeat by title favourites Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gregor Townsend&#8217;s side are aiming to win the Calcutta Cup for a record fifth year running, having dominated recent matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With two wins and a draw, Scotland have not lost at Twickenham since 2017 &#8211; when England retained their Six Nations title and equalled New Zealand&#8217;s world record for consecutive Test wins with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/39223528\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">thumping 61-21 victory.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvgexw94vxzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Chessum will make his first England start in nearly a year after being named in the second row for Saturday&#8217;s Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Allianz Stadium. Chessum partners captain Maro Itoje at lock, with George Martin dropping to the bench in the only change to the squad that beat France in round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}