Wales' Gareth Davies draws on World Cup win over England ahead of Six Nations clash

By PA Sport

Image: Gareth Davies goes over to score a try against England at Twickenham during the 2015 World Cup

Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies will seek out "a little confidence boost" this week by revisiting the 2015 World Cup win against England, ahead of Saturday’s Six Nations clash.

Davies scored a stunning try eight minutes from time at Twickenham to put Wales in touching distance of toppling the World Cup hosts.

His half-back partner Dan Biggar's penalty shortly afterwards sealed a 28-25 win and England ultimately suffered a demoralising pool stage exit.

Davies will be back at Twickenham this weekend as one of only three survivors from the starting line-up in 2015 - centre Scott Williams and lock Alun Wyn Jones are the others - with England once again in his sights.

Image: Wales celebrate after the 28-25 victory over England

In the build-up to the game, Davies revealed he will watch the famous victory on a laptop at Wales' training ground in order to boost his confidence ahead of their Six Nations showdown.

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"It's a big part of my homework, to look back on previous games against them," he said. "I will do that this week.

"I will look back at that game in the World Cup and other games in the Six Nations to see if I can pick up any traits.

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"We've got laptops in our team room. Everything is on the server there so we can look at whatever we want - any game you can think of is available on there.

"It is just a reminder and a little confidence-boost, isn't it? It's good to look back at when we were successful.

"It's one of the favourite moments in my career so far. There are others up there - winning the league with the Scarlets last year, that famous [European Champions Cup] win against Bath a few weeks ago. But that try in the World Cup is up there."

Davies' 60-metre interception try set the ball rolling for Wales' 34-7 victory over Scotland in last weekend's tournament opener, but title holders England away from home represents a tougher challenge.

Image: Davies is set to face scrum-half Danny Care after Ben Youngs was ruled out with injury

Davies will do battle with England's scrum-half Danny Care, who looks set to replace Ben Youngs after the Leicester half-back suffered knee ligament damage during their win over Italy on Sunday.

"He [Care] is a world-class scrum-half," Davies added. "He is a very good player and a very big attacking threat.

"We are going to have to be switched on. When he puts his hands on the ball, we will be expecting all sorts of things from him.

"England are one of the form teams in the world and we are expecting a massive challenge. It should be a cracking game."

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