This game serves as part of their warm-up for the 2025 edition of the premier southern hemisphere competition, with an England team weakened by Lions call-ups also heading their way for a two-Test tour in July. The British and Irish Lions take on Argentina tonight, Friday June 20, 2025, with kick-off scheduled for 8pm BST.

The Lions are without the majority of Leinster, Bath and Leicester Tigers players, who only joined up with the squad on Monday after the United Rugby Championship and Premiership finals, with Leinster hooker Ronan Kelleher the only player involved as he is named on the bench.