{"id":456843,"date":"2023-08-28T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456843"},"modified":"2023-08-28T04:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:57:08","slug":"jonny-may-replaces-anthony-watson-in-england-rugby-squad","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jonny-may-replaces-anthony-watson-in-england-rugby-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny May replaces Anthony Watson in England Rugby squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Steve Borthwick announced his 33-man roster for the World Cup today, with winger Jonny May replacing Anthony Watson, who can\u2019t compete at the tournament because of an injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udde6\ud835\udde4\ud835\udde8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddd7 \ud835\uddd6\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddd9\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde0\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd7<\/p>\n<p>Jonny May and Alex Mitchell are included in the squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby\/status\/1695829032170844232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf Alex Mitchell will also be available for the World Cup as he will replace Jack van Poortvliet, who is also injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby World Cup will be played from September 8<sup>th<\/sup> to October 23rd, with England, who finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place in 2019, facing Argentina in their Pool D 1<sup>st<\/sup> game. They will also play against Japan, Chile and Samoa during the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>England captain Owen Farrell can\u2019t play in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two matches after receiving a red card in a warm-up match.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Vunipola will miss the opener against Argentina after being sent off in the loss against Ireland. Elliot Daly, Tom Curry, Henry Arundell, and George Martin are named in the 33-man squad but are not certain because of injury concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England manager Steve Borthwick announced his 33-man roster for the World Cup today, with winger Jonny May replacing Anthony Watson, who can\u2019t compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456844,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,21155,20851],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[18341,21156,20852],"acf":{"announce":"May will be part of the England Rugby World Cup squad.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456849,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456843\/revisions\/456849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456843"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456843"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}