{"id":311942,"date":"2025-08-02T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311942\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:48:12","slug":"lions-vs-australia-live-third-test-latest-score-lineups-updates-from-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311942\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs Australia LIVE: Third Test latest score, lineups &#038; updates from Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skelton impactpublished at 13:18 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>13:18 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Australia 15-7 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\/08\/5473a731-f20e-49a8-aa31-542012801b3f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Chris Jones<\/strong><br \/>BBC rugby union correspondent at Stadium Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Skelton is off now along with Tupou. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A great stat from journalist Paul Eddison on Skelton&#8217;s impact on the series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Without Skelton the Lions beat Australia 39-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Skelton Australia beat the Lions 38-24.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Skelton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3ff16bdd-4e7a-454d-bb4d-e2c45b977378.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skelton impactpublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 13:18 BST Australia 15-7 Lions Chris JonesBBC rugby union correspondent at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311942","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\/114959254147863631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311942","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=311942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}