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Stuart Lancaster: 'England hard to beat at home'

England coach Stuart Lancaster believes that his side will be "very difficult" to beat at Twickenham during the Rugby World Cup.

Stuart Lancaster has said that England will be a difficult team to beat at Twickenham during the Rugby World Cup.

The host nation beat Ireland 21-13 in their final warm-up match ahead of the tournament, which gets underway later this month.

The coach told reporters: "We're a very difficult team to beat [at Twickenham] because we've got a very good win ratio and the confidence is built from consistently playing well.

"It's not just the team spirit which obviously every team's got, but day in, day out I can see us defending well against each other in training, attacking well, and it's just putting all those bits and pieces together for the 80 [minutes] for seven games. That's the challenge within, but everyone's got that."

England will play three of their four Pool A fixtures at Twickenham, while facing Uruguay at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium in their final match.

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