NRL star Herbie Farnworth dazzles as England trumps Samoa in Headingley Test

England achieved a rugby league series sweep against Samoa by winning the second Test 34-16 at Headingley on Sunday morning (AEDT).

NRL star Herbie Farnworth scored two tries and set up another for Jack Welsby as England followed up last week's 34-18 win at Wigan with another six-try display.

Harry Smith's penalty for England opened the scoring after Luciano Leilua was penalised for a high tackle on opposite Victor Radley, but Leilua quickly made amends at the other end with a well-weighted kick which was superbly gathered by Shawn Blore to score.

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England scored 20 successive points in the rest of the half.

Liam Marshall marked his international debut with a try after cutting in from the left wing to break two tackles and stretch out over the line.

Then Junior Pauga was sin-binned for a forearm into John Bateman's head, and England took full advantage of the extra man.

A superb dummy from captain George Williams allowed the halfback to exploit a big hole in the Samoan defence to score untouched, followed by Smith's cut-out pass setting up Matty Ashton to dive over in the corner.

Pauga returned for the last five minutes but was unable to prevent England's fourth try as Dolphins gun Farnworth scored from a brilliant solo effort over 40 metres. Smith's extras made it 22-6 at half-time.

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Samoa made the brighter start to the second half and quickly reduced the deficit.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's initial break was halted and his attempted offload went to ground, but Welsby failed to hack the loose ball into touch and Jake Tago pounced to touch down over the line.

England responded superbly to restore its 16-point lead after a spell of pressure close to the Samoan line, Farnworth bursting through some poor attempted tackles to score his second try and Smith converting.

Only a brilliant last-ditch tackle from Tuivasa-Sheck prevented Junior Nsemba from extending the home side’s lead, but Farnworth was proving almost impossible to stop and the centre left two defenders trailing in his wake before setting up Welsby for the simplest of scores.

Jeremiah Nanai collected Jarome Luai's neat kick to score a late consolation try for Samoa.