Former England and Australia head coach, now Japan's, Eddie Jones has questioned referee Paul Williams’ refereeing in his side’s narrow 28-21 defeat against Wales.

The Brave Blossoms stayed in the contest at Principality Stadium throughout and caused major disruption around the hosts’ set-piece, with Jones saying it was a ‘missed opportunity’ to record a historic win.

Despite securing a bonus-point, they head to Allianz Stadium for Saturday’s clash against England frustrated, as Japan may very likely rematch Wales later this month at the finals weekend of the Nations Championship.

Naoto Saito joined Jones for their side’s post-match press conference, and after the scrum-half answered a separate question, Jones cut in and questioned part of the game’s officiating.

“Can I just add to that? I hope I am not going to get in trouble for this,” Jones said as Saito sat back in his chair.

“There was one penalty for not supporting your weight at the breakdown.

“In the whole, one penalty and it was against us.

“Anyone watching that game, do you think there was just one ruck where the supporting player was off his feet?

“That can be the difference between losing and winning.

“I am not complaining; I’m just saying sometimes you don’t get the rub of the green.

“That can happen. You’ve got to suck it up and get on with it. Maybe I am complaining.”

Fighting talk from Jones

That said, Jones was proud of his side’s performance against Wales, in which Ben Gunter, Warner Dearns, and Kenta Fukuda all scored.

They face an England side that easily put aside Australia 45-22, a scoreline that flattered one of Jones’ former employers in Twickenham.

When asked what Steve Borthwick’s side can expect from Japan in Round 5 of the Nations Championship, Jones highlighted a major weakness.

“England win 80% of their Tests at Twickenham when they win the first 20 minutes of the game,” Jones added.

“The English like to try to blow you out of the water early and then take the game from there.

“So we’ll need to be able to break up the game, because if you play an orthodox game of rugby, we are probably going to struggle to beat them.

“The English don’t react well to unorthodox rugby.

“So we’ve got to think about how we can play quite unorthodoxly.”

He jokingly added: “Maybe we will play like Italy did in, when was it, 2017?

“Can you still do that in the rucks. Anyone a referee? I don’t think you can, can you?

“Anyway, we’ll think of something else.”

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