{"id":276995,"date":"2025-07-20T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276995\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:20:39","slug":"injured-lions-duo-in-contention-for-second-test-andy-farrell-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276995\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Lions duo in contention for second Test Andy Farrell reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

British & Irish Lions<\/a> boss Andy Farrell admits that Garry Ringrose<\/a> and Blair Kinghorn<\/a> could feature in Tuesday\u2019s final midweek game against the First Nations & Pasifika XV<\/a> at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Leinster and Ireland<\/a> outside centre Ringrose, and Toulouse<\/a> and Scotland<\/a> full-back Kinghorn missed the first Test win over Australia, but he said that both were making good progress and could play in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Farrell says that he won\u2019t start thinking about next weekend\u2019s second Test until after the game against the invitational side coached by former Wallabies No.8 Toutai Kefu.<\/p>\n

He points out that a week of training and the game against First Nations & Pasifika XV will give them more time to work on kinks in their game, which are improving with every training session and game they play.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

British & Irish Lions<\/p>\n

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First Nations & Pasifika XV <\/p>\n

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British & Irish Lions <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe care about the squad and nothing but the squad, and that is how it has been the whole time. We have never separated once. We have all been in everything together.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we will enjoy this victory, and we travel to Melbourne, and we will name a side internally just before dinner, and then everyone on Monday will roll into making sure that team is prepared during an extended captain\u2019s run.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see the difference in our game. I\u2019ve said all along that the hardest thing about any team coming together is gelling in attack because it takes a lot of cohesion for that to happen. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we are trying to find out about ourselves in that regard. As far as the game control and how you play Test matches, that is something we have always been working on in the background and conscious of. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a given for what Test match rugby should be all about and how you respect the game. But now the whole group\u2019s focus moves to Tuesday night, and that\u2019s all that matters at this moment in time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British & Irish Lions boss Andy Farrell admits that Garry Ringrose and Blair Kinghorn could feature in Tuesday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114884825941496784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276995","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=276995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}