England have improved further since 3-0 series whitewash in Australia - Ben Youngs
Ben Youngs is confident of England going undefeated in 2016
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Leicester Tigers scrum-half Ben Youngs believes England have improved further since their 3-0 series victory in Australia last summer.
Ever since Eddie Jones took over as the coach following the 2015 World Cup debacle, England have been on a 12-match winning streak clinching the Grand Slam for the first time in 13 years during the Six Nations tournament earlier this year and also whitewashed Wallabies for the first time in Australia.
The red rose team carried the momentum into the autumn international fixtures as well with wins over South Africa, Fiji and Argentina. In the game against Pumas last weekend, despite losing Elliot Daly in the fifth minute of the game, they registered a 27-14 victory with just 14 men on the field for the most part of the match.
Australia on the other hand managed to turn their form around as well after a slump in form as they ended second in the Rugby Championship 2016 and started their European tour with victories over Wales, Scotland and France before losing to Ireland.
"I believe we have layered on another level to our attack since then. In the first four-and-a-half minutes against Argentina, until Elliot Daly went off, we were causing them trouble," the Leicester scrum-half said.
"We looked flat, we looked fast and we looked like we were on top of them. We had those guys turning in and the ball was going out the back, when they were drifting we were hitting short.
"Our manipulation of their defence was good and we had to adapt when Elliot was sent off, so our tactics changed slightly.
"Saturday is another step forward for our attack and I do feel we are a lot better side than the summer. I'm sure they feel the same."
England currently on a 13-match unbeaten streak since their victory over Uruguay in World Cup 2015 in October and they have a chance to level the record set by Sir Clive Woodward's 2003 World Cup winning team for most consecutive victories which is 14 but Youngs urged the team to guard against complacency.
He said: "We spoke about complacency last week. All our prep had been great and the only thing stopping us from having a great performance against Argentina was a complacency mindset.
"Sometimes you do the greatest prep and think it's just going to happen, then it doesn't. You can do the greatest prep but you've still got to go out and execute it.
"There's going to be no chance of complacency. We are 100 per cent focused on getting all four victories and this is our chance to do that.
"We haven't pumped Australia up as bigger than any of the other games, we simply said we feel there's more to come as a side.
"We want the best performance to come at the weekend because we feel we haven't quite delivered in some aspects of our play.
"We haven't blown it up anything more than just trying to get our best performance out there."
