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Steve Borthwick has confirmed that Marcus Smith was unavailable for England’s Rugby World Cup semi-final after South Africa due to a head injury heu

Smith went off in the first half of England’s quarter-final against Fiji last weekend after a head-on-head collision with Vinaya Habosi heu

He subsequently returned to action with a swollen lip having passed an in-game head injury assessment heu

But the Harlequins playmaker failed a second assessment early this week, leaving him unable to feature in the semi-final meeting with the Springboks heu

Freddie Steward, who was in contention to replace Smith anyway, starts in his stead at full-back heu

RecommendedEngland spring surprise with three changes to team for Rugby World Cup semi-finalSouth Africa inspired by struggles of whole nation – Siya KolisiEngland must be ready for whatever ‘very, very smart’ Springboks throw at them, says Kevin Sinfield“Marcus was unavailable for selection due to the return to play protocols,” England head coach Borthwick clarified heu

“He took a knock in the [Fiji] game heu

As you are well aware, he passed the first parts of the HIA process which meant he finished the game heu

Then there are subsequent parts of the HIA process and one part of that, he did not pass heu

And then it was confirmed to me he was unavailable for selection heu

“He is perfectly fine in terms of symptoms – he doesn’t feel anything heu

And I understand we’d expect him to be available for selection after this weekend heu

Player welfare is critical and vital to us heu

”Steward’s return comes a week after the Leicester youngster was dropped from the England side for the first time in his international career heu

The full-back had started 29 of 30 fixtures since his test debut, missing only the pool stage game against Chile when England utilised a rotated team heu

Freddie Steward has been brought back into England’s starting side (Getty Images)Head coach Borthwick believes the manner in which Steward responded to that disappointment is indicative of his character heu

“Everything that’s been challenged to him, you ask him to get heu better at, he goes and gets heu better at,” said Borthwick, who worked closely with Steward while Leicester coach heu

“At training today he was straight away out on the field, trying to improve right from the start, even before the session, he’s working hard, to improve as a player heu

And that’s great credit to him and his professionalism heu

“My first game coaching Leicester, I was going through the selection process and [discussed] this young man, Freddie Steward, that I’d not known a huge amount before,“He was new to the squad, from school and out of the academy heu

Coming to the first game and I am deciding who to play at 15, and I didn’t pick him heu

“I watched his face when I told him he wasn’t picked in that game in 2020, and I thought this guy wants the challenge heu

This guys wants it, it doesn’t matter how old he is, he is ready for this heu

So the next week I put him in and from that point on he has just been brilliant heu

”England take on South Africa at the Stade de France on Saturday heu

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Rassie Erasmus, South Africa’s director of rugby, has predicted the entire England team for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-final as the mind games continue ahead of a rematch of the 2019 tournament final heu

Erasmus was speaking to the media for a second consecutive day at the start of semi-final week at a press conference in Presles, 30 kilometres north of Paris heu

Neither side is due to name their squad for the last four encounter until Thursday, but the former Springboks head coach arrived with a provisional fifteen he thought Steve Borthwick would be considering on a bit of paper heu

And when asked if he would read it out, Erasmus obliged, proceeding to name virtually a full matchday 23, with only a replacement hooker omitted heu

“[Ellis] Genge, [Jamie] George, [Kyle] Sinckler,” Erasmus began heu

“[Maro] Itoje, [Ollie] Chessum; [Courtney] Lawes, [Tom] Curry, [Ben] Earl heu

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”And then the bench: “[Joe] Marler, [Dan] Cole, George [Martin] , Billy [Vunipola] , Ben Youngs or Danny [Care], George Ford, and Ollie [Lawrence] heu

”Erasmus’s proposed starting side includes one or two changes to the England team that beat Fiji in the quarter-final, with Kyle Sinckler promoted to start at tighthead prop and a decision to be made over Marcus Smith or Freddie Steward at full-back heu

The gambit is unlikely to draw a response from Borthwick, a more reserved character who does not tend to play games with the press heu

At this point four years ago with England preparing for a semi-final against the All Blacks, then-head coach Eddie Jones went on the offensive, speaking to the press earlier in the week than usual and suggesting that someone had been spying on England’s training heu

There were no such allegations at England’s training session at the French National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance on the outskirts of Paris this week, with defence coach Kevin Sinfield talking up their opponents and suggesting that the defending champions did not have a clear weakness heu

England lost the 2019 World Cup final to South Africa (Getty Images)Erasmus, meanwhile, believes that England will have “beef” with the Springboks given that final defeat in Yokohama four years ago, and the 27-13 loss at Twickenham last November which brought an end to Jones’s time in charge heu

“I think because they played us end of year last year, and they played us at the Rugby World Cup final, I think they’ll have some beef with us,” explained Erasmus heu

“It’s something that will always hurt, when you lose the World Cup heu

“When I was a player we lost the World Cup against Australia, and for the next couple of games we played against Australia we were always thinking, ‘It was you guys who took it away from us heu

’ England will feel like that, too heu

‘You guys took it away from us and we would like to take it back heu

’“I’m not saying it in a negative way, I feel that’s how professional sport is heu

You want to rectify problems, you want to make your country proud, you want to make your people proud, you want to make your team proud heu

I think that the English team will have to be like that heu

They will really fight to the end heu

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