Scotland retains the Calcutta Cup after trailing 31 points in London

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The emblematic elephant and cobras of the Calcutta Cup, which Scotland recovered last year after a decade in the English showcases, will continue one more year in Edinburgh after a historical reaction. England, who came to set an immaculate tournament if not for a bad quarter of an hour in Cardiff, was a steamroller in the first half and left all the doubts of the world in the second. Scotland has signed on Saturday the biggest comeback in the history of the Six Nations to flip a 31-0 but was left without its first victory in London since 1983 due to a rehearsal of the locals in the last action.

It took only 67 seconds for England to open the scoring after the opponent's back was dislodged on his left side and allowed the zigzagging of Jack Nowell towards the rehearsal. Tom Curry would score in the same field after a maul who did not find resistance and the XV of the Thistle was in need of a feat when ten minutes had not yet elapsed.

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The bleeding did not stop. The heavy Sinckler ran unstoppable despite its tonnage and facilitated the Launchbury brand on the edge of the quarter hour. Thus, it was inevitable that Jonny May, the top scorer of the tournament, added his sixth mark after taking advantage of a scorn of the Scots by giving ground after a penalty stroke. Melee-midfielder Ben Youngs took the tempo well, Henry Slade was a knife in the back and Owen Farrell was a metronome in the shots by sticks. The consequence: 31-0 in half an hour.

Scotland then reversed his nightmare in a kick from Farrell blocked by the corpulent McInally, who picked up the rejection and had energy to travel the field towards the rehearsal. With nothing to lose, the visiting team dared and recovered its devilish fluency with its opening Finn Russell setting the beat. Darcy Graham used an immaculate sequence to pose on the left side and Ali Price broke the last English curtain to assist Bradbury.

Scotland's burden was not makeup. The English back arrived late before a new brand of Graham, released after another sequence brilliantly accelerated by Russell. An earthquake that Twickneham did not have time to digest because the Scottish opening intercepted in the next play a neglected horizontal pass of Farrell and happily completed his freeway under sticks. Five trials annotated in London in less than 24 minutes.

The imposing English attack remained in the locker room and it was Scotland who assumed their duty with history. This being the case, Sam Johnson became the protagonist with whom for a few minutes it was the most important trial of the century for Scottish rugby. He cut the last English line, left Nowell on the floor with a beautiful counter and kept the balance to ram through the last English players before posing under sticks. It would save the furniture England in the last action, culminated under sticks by George Ford after the infinite load of his forwards.

England finishes second in a tournament in which he has scored 14 trials more than Wales, which exceeds by 34 points in the average. None of this hides its fragility in closed games like Cardiff or its volatility against rivals with nothing to lose. The World Cup in Japan, starting in September, will dictate the Eddie Jones project.