England flanker Sadia Kabeya comes up with a huge steel just yards from her try line.

But fly-half Zoe Harrison rtook her eye off the ball and knocks on in her own try area.

Scrum-five Wales.

First scrum and free-kick to Wales.

Kiera Bevan wants to go early... but the skipper says hold your horses.

Rachel Taylor
Former Wales captain and coach on BBC One

A really smart kick-off, it means Wales are on the ball straight away in terms of having a line-out.

It's what they need to do, they need to sustain the pressure.

Wales looking to stretch England from left to right and back again.

Number eight Georgia Evans seeing plenty of the ball and flanker Kate Williams makes half a break down the narrow right side.

George then spreads the ball out wide on the left but wing Lisa Neumann is stopped by Ellie Kildunne.

Promising start for Wales.

Wales get an early attacking lineout and a chance to run through some of those moves new head coach Sean Lynn will have introduced.

Clare Muniari blows the whistle and Wales fly-half Lleucu George gets the game going

Wales: Joyce; Neumann, H Jones (capt), Powell, Cox, George, Bevan; G Pyrs, Phillips, Scoble, Fleming, Crabb, Williams, Lewis, Evans.

England: Kildunne; Dow, Jones, Heard, Breach; Harrison, Hunt; Carson, Atkin-Davies, Bern, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft (capt), Kabeya, Feaunati.

Referee: Clara Munarini (France)

First it's God Save the King.

Followed by, Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.

France are top of the Women's Six Nations table after their 38-15 win over Scotland. But for how long?

Scotland are third after one win and one loss.

England can return to the summit if they beat Wales by more than two points.

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Head-to-head

• England have a clear upper hand in the history of this fixture, having won the last eight encounters against Wales. Their most recent meeting resulted in a 46-10 victory at Ashton Gate in Bristol.
• England have won 20 of their previous 22 Six Nations matches against Wales, including each of their last eight by an average margin of 46 points.
• England's two defeats to Wales both came away from home (15-16 in 2009 and 0-13 in 2015).

Wales

• Wales are playing at the Principality Stadium for the fourth time in the Women's Six Nations. Their previous three matches have all been against Italy, picking up wins in 2012 and 2024 and a loss in 2018.
• Wales won their final home match of the 2024 championship (22-20 v Italy) but haven't picked up back-to-back wins on Welsh soil since defeating Scotland and France in the 2016.

England

• England have won each of their last 30 Women's Six Nations matches, the longest streak by any side in the history of the Championship.
• Ellie Kildunne will earn her 50th Test cap in this match and has been directly involved in 24 tries across her last 14 starts for England (18 tries, 6 assists), including a brace against Wales in last year's Six Nations.

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More than 18,000 tickets have already been sold for this match, a record for a Welsh women's team event in Wales.

The previous best attendance was 10,592, when Wales hosted Italy in the 2024 Six Nations here at the Principality Stadium.

In November, Wales' female footballers set the previous best domestic mark of 16,845 in a Euro 2025 play-off against Republic of Ireland.

But there is still a way to go to beat the record for a women’s sporting event in Wales.

More than 31,000 turned out to watch Team GB women’s football team beat Cameroon 3-0 at the Principality during the London 2012 Olympics.

But how many more fans will come through the turnstiles? We'll let you know the official attendance as soon as it's announced.

Ceri Coleman-Phillips
BBC Sport Wales rugby reporter at Principality Stadium

The message Sean Lynn has given the Wales players this week is "win the hearts of the nation".

He wants to see pride, passion and fight from his charges who showed plenty of promise in the opening defeat to Scotland.

The aim is to put England in a "dark place" and make them work for every inch of grass at the Principality.

The defensive effort will be huge. Wales missed 30 plus tackles in Edinburgh, something they can ill afford against the best team in the world.

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Wales head coach Sean Lynn: "Defensively we have to be on point, mistakes are going to happen but it's that fight I want to see from the girls.

"When you're growing up it's all about Wales v England, and playing in the Principality with a record crowd it's something we are really proud of.

"We're so excited and it's what these girls deserve, playing at the Principality and having 18,000. I'm hoping we're going to get to the 20,000 mark.

"We've set out some small challenges for us, what we want to be getting out of it, I just want to make sure that we can put England in a tough place and see how they react. Sport is about pressure."

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England flanker Sadia Kabeya: "While it is an away game, there's no added pressure for us.

"We know it's going to be loud which just means we need to be even louder, it's more of a reason for us to go out there and perform.

"Going into any game we always try and focus on ourselves and see what we can do to improve our game.

"For us, it's about being squeaky clean and aggressive around our breakdown, but still be able to play fast."

Siwan Lillicrap
Former Wales captain on BBC Two

I don't think anyone in world rugby is expecting Wales to come out and win today, but what they're looking for is an improvement in performance from last week in Edinburgh.

This Welsh team doesn't need anymore backing than playing England, the rivalry, the emotion, it's all there.

Earlier today, France moved top of the Women's Six Nations table with a bonus-point 38-15 win over Scotland.

France took raced into a 13-0 lead through a well-taken try by fly-half Carla Arbez and two penalties from Morgane Bourgeois.

But Emma Orr's opportunistic score brought the visitors back within touching at half-time.

France then produced a clinical second-half performance with scrum-half Pauline Bourdon Sansus the star, hitting a sensational drop-goal before setting up Manae Feleu for a try.

Flanker Seraphine Okemba grabbed Les Bleus' third try, with full-back Bourgeois securing the bonus-point before Elis Martin late consolation try for Scotland.

Read more of the action and reaction from La Rochelle.

Gareth Rhys Owen
BBC Radio Wales commentator

Sport's ultimate beauty is its ability to surprise us. And it's in this context that any prediction ahead of this encounter must be framed.

Theresa May was the Prime Minister when England last lost a Six Nations match and all indicators suggest they should win comfortably on Saturday.

Such is the depth of John Mitchell's squad that he has the luxury of making 13 changes to a side who put 40 points on Italy, although most would suggest that this starting XV is an upgrade.

Wales will look for the emotional pull of playing in front of a record-breaking crowd at the Principality Stadium and there was plenty of evidence of progress in their defeat in Edinburgh last weekend.

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Missing one Premiership Women's Rugby final through injury is tough to take, but missing two is just cruel.

That was the reality for Wales hooker Kelsey Jones, who watched Gloucester-Hartpury complete the 'threepeat' – three successive titles – with victory over Saracens earlier this month.

Jones missed out in 2024 as she was recovering from a disc replacement in her neck and was absent from this year's showpiece after suffering a serious knee injury last May.

"It's probably one of the hardest things I've been through as a player," said Jones.

"They are the moments I want to be on the pitch and the business end of the season is probably my favourite time where I thrive in rugby."

Jones marked her return to action last Saturday, coming off the bench in Wales' opening-round loss to Scotland in the Women's Six Nations.

Read more about her battle to shake off her injury woes here.