England make one change

Loosehead prop Alex Corbisiero replaces the injured Andrew Sheridan for Sunday's game against Scotland at Twickenham while the other 14 start for the fourth game in a row.

Paul Doran-Jones, with just one appearance on the bench to his name, takes Corbisiero's place among the replacements, where flanker Tom Croft, who missed the first three games with a knee injury, returns in place of Hendre Fourie.

Toby Flood, who limped out of the 17-9 win over France with an Achilles problem, has recovered to start at fly-half and, with Lewis Moody still out with a knee injury, Mike Tindall captains the side for the fourth time.

"We have had some consistency and that core is there so when you bring some players in it's easier for them to come in and play well because of the continuity of what we're doing," said Johnson, whose initial year in charge was hampered by a huge injury count.

"We have that confidence and understanding from being together, we've got a pretty good balance and haven't just played one way through the tournament or even through games. We've got more strings to our bow now."

England's last title came when Johnson captained them to a Grand Slam in 2003 and victory on Sunday would set up the chance to repeat that feat in Dublin in a week's time.

Scotland have lost their first three games and their record at Twickenham is awful with just four wins in the 100 years they have been playing there.

They have won in London only twice since World War Two, the last one in 1983, though the teams did draw 15-15 at Murrayfield last year in a dire game.

"We didn't perform last year but our best now is better than it was a year ago - our top end is better," Johnson said.

"Nobody's getting carried away though. We made five errors on the trot against France and that stuff can get you killed. The good thing was we fought our way from it.

"Some of the guys were a bit grumpy today after a few errors in training but the things we're doing today compared to two months ago or even two weeks ago are improving every time we train.

"We've been a little bit more consistent game to game and it's starting to have that feel of a tournament getting to the knockout stages - and that's good."

The last tournament Johnson was involved in was the 2003 World Cup, when England's assistant coach was Andy Robinson, now in charge of Scotland and returning to Twickenham for the first time since being sacked as England head coach in 2006.

"I played with him and against him and you won't find a more passionate rugby man than Andy," Johnson said.

"He wants to win, he's very competitive. But it's not us, it's about the two teams on Sunday."

England team: 15-Ben Foden; 14-Chris Ashton, 13-Mike Tindall (capt), 12-Shontayne Hape, 11-Mark Cueto; 10-Toby Flood, 9-Ben Youngs; 1-Alex Corbisiero, 2-Dylan Hartley), 3-Dan Cole, 4-Lewis Deacon, 5-Tom Palmer, 6-Tom Wood, 7-James Haskell, 8-Nick Easter.

Replacements: 16-Steve Thompson, 17-Paul Doran-Jones, 18-Simon Shaw, 19-Tom Croft, 20-Danny Care, 21-Jonny Wilkinson, 22-Matt Banahan.

Scotland team: 15-Chris Paterson, 14-Simon Danielli, 13-Joe Ansbro, 12-Sean Lamont, 11-Max Evans, 10-Ruaridh Jackson, 9-Rory Lawson; 1-Allan Jacobsen, 2-Ross Ford, 3-Moray Low, 4-Richie Gray, 5-Alastair Kellock (captain), 6-Nathan Hines, 7-John Barclay, 8-Kelly Brown

Replacements: 16-Scott Lawson, 17-Geoff Cross, 18-Richie Vernon, 19-Alasdair Strokosch, 20-Mike Blair, 21-Dan Parks, 22-Nick De Luca