England faces PNG tonight in their final pool game at the World Cup and not only needs to win at WIN Stadium in Wollongong to be a chance of making the semi-finals but must rack up the points.

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The English are 68 points worse off on differential compared to Samoa so they need a big win tonight to put pressure on the Pacific Island nation ahead of their match against Tonga on Sunday.

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PNG need to win to keep their semi-final hopes alive but even a big victory would still make their chances of qualifying unlikely due to a shocking for-and-against.

MATCH CENTRE: England v Papua New Guinea, live blog, results

TEAMS

England team: 1. AJ Brimson 2. Dominic Young 3. Hugo Savala 4. Herbie Farnworth 5. Matty Ashton 6. George Williams (c) 7. Harry Smith 8. Max King 9. Jez Litten 10. Luke Thompson 11. Junior Nsemba 12. Kai Pearce-Paul 13. Morgan Knowles 14. Mikey Lewis 15. Sam Walters 16. Ethan Havard 20. Brad O’Neill 21. Zach Eckersley 22. Kallum Watkins

PNG team: 1. Zac Laybutt 2. Robert Derby 3. Josh Feledy 16. Robert Mathias 5. Dudley Dotoi 6. Gairo Voro 7. Bailey Biondi-Odo 8. Epel Kapinias 13. Liam Horne 18. Valentine Richard 11. Rhyse Martin (c) 12. Nixon Putt 10. Luca Moretti 4. Nene Macdonald 14. Finley Glare 15. JacobTaulani 17. Sanny Wabo 19. Zev John 22. Alex Max

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