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Anthony Watson: 'England are motivated to secure more silverware'

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Eddie Jones' men are keen to add to the Six Nations title.

Anthony Watson insists England are armed with ample motivation to lift the Autumn Nations Cup by toppling France at Twickenham on Sunday.

Watson says Eddie Jones’ men value the climax to the tournament as an opportunity to win a second piece of silverware immediately after claiming the 2020 Six Nations title and the stage to avenge their only defeat of the year.

In addition, the Bath wing embraces the chance for England to prove they have learned from their harrowing World Cup final defeat by South Africa 12 months ago.

Watson admits he is unlikely to ever recover from the 32-12 defeat to South Africa in Yokohama, a match England entered as clear favourites having crushed New Zealand a round earlier

The visit of France to Twickenham is their first winner-takes-all match since and they have been drawing on the calamity against the Springboks to train their preparation for the concluding match of 2020.

“I’m not going to sit here and say I’ll ever get over the World Cup final because I don’t think I ever will,” Watson said.

“That’s because of the amount of hard work that went into getting into the position we were in and falling at the final hurdle. Potentially if I get another opportunity to win it….

Anthony Watson hopes England have learned lessons from their World Cup final defeat (Andrew Matthews/PA)

“We felt very confident going into that game. It’s difficult to put your finger on exactly what went wrong.

“We haven’t focused directly on the tactics of that final, more that we were favourites and that we didn’t do what we said we were going to do in the week. There were issues with the training week.

“They were minute things, or things that we thought were minute that probably should have been spoken about that we didn’t speak about.

“It was probably just an edge, those one per centers in training. It was tough.”

Jones has retained a 27-man squad to step up preparations for Sunday’s final, reducing his players by only six to provide few clues over what starting XV will be announced on Thursday morning.

Wings Joe Cokanasiga and Ollie Thorley, half-backs Alex Mitchell and Jacob Umaga and front rows Alfie Barbeary and Harry Williams are returning to their clubs for the weekend’s Gallagher Premiership action.

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