The Six Nations Championship is an annual international men’s rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. The current champions are England, who won the 2020 tournament in what was the longest Six Nations comp in history dew to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Matches and Predictions:
Italy vs France, 2.15pm
Pick: France -23.0 @1/1
France, who will be hoping to claim their first title since 2010, kick off their Six Nations with a visit to Rome to play minnows Italy.
Italy enter the tournament on a torrid run of form. They haven’t won a Six Nations game in half a decade, with their last win coming against Scotland in 2015. However, their best performance last year came against France, when they scored 22 points, half of their tournament total.
Meanwhile, France will be looking to go one better after an impressive second-place finish last year in a campaign that saw them beat eventual winners England.
England vs Scotland, 4.45pm
Pick: England -16.0 @13/10
England welcome Scotland to a crowd-less Twickenham in both sides’ opening match of the 2021 Six Nations. The visitors are searching for a first win on English soil since 1983 – after coming so close in that 2019 with a draw – while Eddie Jones’ team will be looking to retain the Calcutta Cup after victory at Murrayfield in 2020.
England face the Scots for the 139th time in a match that marks 150 years since the rivals clashed in the first ever international rugby match.
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