England vs Scotland LIVE: Result and reaction from Six Nations as hosts cling on in thrilling Calcutta Cup climax

England skipper Maro Itoje has had his say on today’s triumph in the post-match press conference:

“It wasn’t pretty but we found a way. We want to be a team full of character and fight. Every game of rugby has periods going against you but we were pulling together and changing it.

“It’s a good experience for the team to go through and will help the growth of this team. We are finding a way to win these tight exchanges. But it would be nice if it wasn’t so narrow at the end! We’ll work hard to make it easier for Steve [Borthwick] – more of his hair might fall out if we keep doing this!

“As a team we want to take pride in our defence and our tackling. It’s been the same for the last 30 or 40 years of rugby – if you have good defence, you put yourself in position to win the game, Today was good but not perfect – we still leaked tries but the energy and character was good.”

Steve Borthwick has been in for his post-match press conference:

“I’m delighted that in the last two games, the ending has gone our way. We’re finding ways to win. In many ways it wasn’t pretty and there are things we want to do better but it was important to win.

On Fin Smith’s performance: “I thought Fin Smith went well. It was a completely different game to the last one (against France). It was a tactical arm wrestle because of the way Scotland set up. But a different game is good for our young side that is evolving and developing.

Injury updates: “Tom Curry has a dead leg. He took it early in the game - he’s a tough competitor but it became too uncomfortable after half-time. Tom Willis was a HIA so he’ll enter those protocols.

“These are good teams we’re playing against. What pleased me is that the team is evolving. We don’t necessarily want to play the way we did today. We want to move the ball because we have creative talent but Scotland stopped us doing that. We’ll find a way to do that.

“There are areas to improve and we will. We’ll need to against Italy. Italy play not dissimilarly, with a low phase count and contestable kicks.”

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has had his say:

“A lot went right for us. We scored three tries to one. To get the amount of yards we did was positive. England kept their discipline in the 22. We didn’t get penalties for offside. Credit goes to them but we know we can be better.

On missing chances in first half: “I wouldn’t use adjectives like ‘frustrated’. You learn during that first-half period. A couple of times we went wide and scored but sometimes you have to narrow up the defence and get something when you get into the 22.

“We probably put in a better performance than the last couple of times we’ve come here. I’m so proud of the group. They did everything they could to retain the cup.

Will Finn Russell be replaced as goalkicker after three misses?: “No, I don’t think so. Finn is an outstanding goalkicker - he was last season and they were tough kicks today.

“We asked them to show who we are as a team and I think they did that. The next games will be tough challenges so we have to build on today. We showed we can create opportunities and scored tries away from home.

“It’s tougher to take for the players - to play well you have to put the effort in and they’ve done that. From a coaching perspective, we asked them to deliver on effort and execution and they did that.”

For the second game in a row, England found a way. Having been battered and beaten by a relentless Scotland, Steve Borthwick’s side somehow stayed in the contest, edged into the lead and rode their luck to hold on to the most dramatic of 16-15 wins and finally end their half-decade of Calcutta Cup woe.

There was some irony to the fact that it was England’s tormentor-in-chief from the recent past, Finn Russell, who, having already missed two earlier kicks, saw his touchline conversion at the death drift agonisingly wide to leave the visitors one paltry point short in the final reckoning. So often the match-winner, he took on a more heartbreaking role to leave the men in white exhausted but celebrating the end of a streak.

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend and captain Rory Darge have just started their post-match press conference.

Darge says: “We scored three tries but there were chances to score more. England were better in the second half than the first half but when you have your opportunities in Test rugby you have to take them. You know there’s going to be a reaction. We knew their bench was going to have an impact.

“We’re disappointed with the result but the performance was better than it was two weeks ago.”

On Finn Russell’s mindset after three missed conversions: “Finn is the same as all of us. There were loads of opportunities in that game outside of those kicks, that everyone across the team missed.”

"We scored more tries, but to be honest there were a lot of opportunities that we didn't make the most of.

"Part of that is England defended well, but we know we made enough opportunities to win that game, we maybe just didn't execute.

"It is tough. It was a big game in terms of the championship and obviously it's Scotland-England. We're gutted we couldn't get a win.

"There's no excuse for a drop-off now. We need to deliver in the next two games."

"The performance was a bit mixed.

"Scotland played a lot in our half and we didn't exit the way we wanted but we did fight and scrap. There is loads for us to get better at but we are delighted to win.

"In the first half and the second half, we probably didn't play as much as we wanted and Scotland probably played more than us but we were more clinical than we have been.

"There is a feeling we are going to score so we just need to find ways of being there more and then we will execute more."

Poor Duhan van der Merwe has been named man of the match, meaning he has to front up to the broadcasters:

"We had a lot of opportunities in that first half and we didn't take all of them,” the wing says.

"Fair play to England's defence, in the first half they kept us out.

“We didn't have enough ball in the second half. England were applying pressure at the breakdown and they got the ball. Fair play to England."

That really is a sickener for Scotland, mind. They carried for basically double the metres as England and so often looked on the verge of cracking the contest wide open - but they left six points out there from the tee, and perhaps plenty more with some strange decision-making in wide channels. Even in a good showing in so many ways, there will be some more tough questions for Gregor Townsend, I’m sure.

Italy and Wales to come for England - how big a win is that to give them momentum into a (relatively) kind finish to this campaign? They scrambled quite brilliantly defensively today, finding a way even with Scotland making all of the running.