Canada breaks England's streak

Canada defeated England twenty-four twenty-one in Toronto on October seventeenth. Shoshanah Seumanutafa scored the winning try three minutes from time, ending England's forty-one match unbeaten run dating back almost four years.

Record crowd in North America

The match was played in front of eighteen thousand six hundred twenty-one fans, a record for a standalone women's fixture in North America.

England's first-half lead

England led fourteen five at half-time after tries from Maddie Feaunati and Zoe Harrison. Canada's Savannah Bauder had opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute while Zoe Harrison was in the sin-bin.

Canada's second-half comeback

Sarah Bern's try preserved England's nine-point lead early in the second half. But Alysha Corrigan and DaLeaka Menin scored for Canada to set up a tense finale before Seumanutafa's decisive try.

Mitchell's first defeat since appointment

England head coach John Mitchell said the loss frees the team up. He told them to find something more, saying the group has more in them and sometimes requires this context to dig deeper.

“I guess [the loss] frees us up and allows us to find more. I know this group has got more in them.”

England's recent vulnerability

This result had been coming.England trailed Australia at half-time for the first time since two thousand twenty before winning forty-eight fifteen.

Meg Jones rallies the squad

England captain Meg Jones said the team are still world champions and still number one.

“We're still world champions, we're still number one, and we'll still keep pushing to be the best we possibly can.”

Canada avenges World Cup final

Canada captain Sophie de Goede had sleepless nights after losing the two thousand twenty-five World Cup final to England.

What happens next

England and Canada meet again in Ottawa on Friday October twenty-third. England then conclude their two thousand twenty-six WXV Global Series against the USA in New Jersey on Friday October thirtieth at twenty-one fifteen GMT.