{"id":8912,"date":"2025-01-03T03:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-union-england-head-to-argentina-for-two-tests-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T03:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:14:59","slug":"rugby-union-england-head-to-argentina-for-two-tests-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rugby-union-england-head-to-argentina-for-two-tests-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby union: England head to Argentina for two Tests this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England will play two Tests against Argentina in July in their first tour of South America since 2017.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Borthwick&#8217;s side are scheduled to face Argentina in La Plata on 5 July and San Juan on 12 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fixtures clash with the British and Irish Lions&#8217; tour of Australia so Borthwick will likely have a depleted squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England won both Tests during their 2017 tour of Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most recent meeting between the two nations was the third-place play-off at the 2023 World Cup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/67242541\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">which England won 26-23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina&#8217;s opening match of the summer comes against the British and Irish Lions in Dublin on 20 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cdr0v80grdno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England will play two Tests against Argentina in July in their first tour of South America since 2017. Steve Borthwick&#8217;s side are scheduled to face Argentina in La Plata on 5 July and San Juan on 12 July. The fixtures clash with the British and Irish Lions&#8217; tour of Australia so Borthwick will likely have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}