{"id":274718,"date":"2025-07-19T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274718\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:37:11","slug":"lions-vs-australia-live-first-test-reaction-quotes-scorers-lineups-stats-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274718\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs Australia LIVE: First Test reaction, quotes, scorers, lineups, stats &#038; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Delighted with win, but plenty to work on&#8217;published at 13:15 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>13:15 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Australia 19-27 Lions<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5058e045-8379-43c5-90b6-5600b986231c.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>British and Irish Lions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">British and Irish Lions head coach Andy Farrell, speaking to Sky Sports:<\/b> &#8220;Obviously we are delighted to get the result, to get the first under the belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought we did the shirt proud, how we attacked the game especially in the first half was very pleasing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought we started very well, our game control was excellent throughout and the  back row were immense throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We stood up, our physicality was spot in the first half, but in the second we were a bit loose. Plenty to work on for game two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The good thing is we roll on to Tuesday night and the rest of the guys get to put their hands up. It is a big occasion for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will be dealing with a wounded animal second up,  MCG sold out, it doesn&#8217;t get  any better and we expect ourselves to be better again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lions Head Coach Andy Farrell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/13462391-f59e-4b28-805e-8c6843072b5e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Delighted with win, but plenty to work on&#8217;published at 13:15 British Summer Time 13:15 BST FT: Australia 19-27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-274718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114879938178941308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}