ENGLAND coach Shaun Wane was full of praise for man of the match Herbie Farnworth after his side beat Samoa 34-16 to seal a 2-0 series victory at Headingley.

Farnworth scored two tries and set up another for Saints full back Jack Welsby as the home side followed up last week's 34-18 win at Wigan with another six-try display.

"I thought we played well, I thought Samoa were fantastic," Wane said.

"It was a good Test match. A few too many points [conceded] for me, I'm very defence orientated, but I thought Samoa were class.

"Herbie Farnworth was really, really good. In both games he's been outstanding. He's a credit to the Dolphins and the NRL, and I'm just glad he's English.

"He's had a bit of a personal problem this week and missed a session, and to come back and perform like that he's a credit to himself."

Wane also singled out Saints loose forward Morgan Knowles, who made 18 tackles and 81 metres in his 44 minutes off the bench when replacing Victor Radley.

"I thought Morgan Knowles was impressive off the bench, Mike McMeeken and Luke Thompson also gave us a lift when we needed it. Our bench was overall superb." 

Wane said after the initial victory over Samoa that the performance would not be enough to trouble world champions Australia, who are set to tour England in 2025 for the first time in more than 20 years.

Asked if the second win would have been good enough, he added: "I don't think so.

"There's areas where we need to get better, we know what we're capable of inside the group and we know we need to improve, no doubt about that."

Samoa head coach Ben Gardiner was unhappy with the decision of referee Chris Kendall to send Junior Pauga to the sin bin for 10 minutes, feeling Pauga's hip, rather than his forearm, accidentally connected with John Bateman's head.

"I think in any game a sin-binning is going to have an impact on the game," Gardiner said. "As an average it's generally two tries against so it's pretty crucial.

"Junior said he was sin-binned for a high tackle, a high tackle that he made impact with his hip, not with his arm.

"I understand we need to take care across the game and we're trying to remove head contact, but accidental, incidental contact that has no malice in it, I haven't seen that being sin-binned in the past.

"But I don't want everything to be about the sin-binning. At the end of the day, England were excellent and Herbie Farnworth had another great game. They were brilliant and deserved to win."