The Sunday Times have deployed their fabled "Rugby Correspondent", your friend and mine, Stephen Jones to write about the game.
This is paywalled so I don't know what he has to say however the preamble includes the observatino that "revival of series after 21 years begins in front of only 60,000 fans at Wembley" - so let's make a guess and say his BS hasn't changed after all these years.
https://www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-league/article/rusty-england-no-match-for-australia-as-ashes-return-falls-flat-w00xhzglk