diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1305.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1305.py
index e123ce0ba..c75b42434 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1305.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1305.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import pytest
 
+@pytest.mark.xfail
 @pytest.mark.models('en')
 def test_issue1305(EN):
     '''Test lemmatization of English VBZ'''