Eddie Jones targets series victory after dramatic win in first Test

Eddie Jones' England started their three-match series against Australia with an exciting victory
Eddie Jones' England started their three-match series against Australia with an exciting victory
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England coach Eddie Jones has set his sight on series victory after his team's 28-39 victory over Australia in the first game in Brisbane on Saturday.

Ever since Jones took over from Stuart Lancaster, England are on an unbeaten streak clinching the Grand Slam for the first time in 13 years during the 2016 Six Nations tournament and with the victory in the first game in Australia, the red rose team has a chance to create history by registering their maiden Test series victory down under.

Satisfied with the result in Brisbane, Jones urged his team to concentrate on the second Test in Melbourne with an intention to complete series victory.

However, Jones is wary of the fightback from Australia and expects the World Cup finalists to come back hard at England.

"All we have done is given ourselves one more game in the series. Melbourne is the most important game now," he said.

"We have made history today but it's not good enough for us - it's all about next week.

"We didn't play well. We're obviously happy with the result but we can improve significantly.

"We can't get too excited, but the great thing about it is that if you have a three-Test series and you're in it in the second Test, you're pretty excited.

"There's a lot of expectation about the Wallaby team. They're the second-best team in the world and they've got the world's best coach (Michael Cheika) and the expectation is high for them, so the pressure is on them next week.

"We need to make sure we have good focus. The Australians will come at us left right and centre."

Jones made a strategical move of replacing Luther Burrell in the 28th minute of the game with George Ford after the Northampton centre's defence was breached on one occasion.

Ford played a significant role in setting up a couple of England's tries and Jones stressed on the importance of being flexible as per the situation of the game.

"We just needed to change the game. There are just times you do things through a gut feeling. If you change the game, you change personnel," Jones said.

"It is all about the players making good decisions on the field and they did that. Our execution at times was really good.

"George coming on just gave us more variety to our game. George and Owen have played together a lot and we just needed some control back in our game because we didn't have that in the first 29 minutes."

Jones also heaped praise on the openside flanker James Haskell, who set the tone for England with his bone-jarring early hit on David Pocock.

"James was outstanding, really outstanding. He was physically good. Pocock is a special player but Haskell did some things defensively that gave us momentum in the game," Jones said.

Meanwhile, Australia coach Michael Cheika admitted his team were outplayed by England and is hopeful of turning things around in Melbourne.

"There's another Test match next weekend. This was our first game for seven months and we knew there would be things we wouldn't get right," Cheika said.

"We've now got a better handle on what we need to do to get better.

"All credit to England, they played well and deserved the win. There's no doubt about that."