{"id":14107,"date":"2025-07-02T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-shine-vs-reds-farrells-adaptation-stands-out-after-doubtful-start\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:45:54","slug":"lions-shine-vs-reds-farrells-adaptation-stands-out-after-doubtful-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/lions-shine-vs-reds-farrells-adaptation-stands-out-after-doubtful-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Shine vs Reds: Farrell&#8217;s Adaptation Stands Out After Doubtful Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The British &amp; Irish Lions Achieve a Convincing Victory Over the Queensland Reds<\/h2>\n\nBritish &amp; Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell expressed his satisfaction with the way his team settled after conceding two early tries, before defeating the Queensland Reds 52-12 in Brisbane on Wednesday.\n\nJust like against the Western Force in Perth on Saturday, the tourists saw their line breached in the first quarter before dominating the match and increasing the score.\n\n&#8220;Impressive at times,&#8221; Farrell said. &#8220;We played some nice rugby after we settled. I think in the first 10 minutes, the Reds started pretty well and we had a few errors one after the other.&#8221;\n\nFarrell also commented on his team&#8217;s ability to stay calm and play good rugby despite the challenges.\n\nDifficulties are expected in bringing together players from four nations in a short period of time, and problems in restarts, handling errors and a couple of penalties in the scrum will not have pleased Farrell.\n\nScrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park returned from a glute injury that sidelined him from the defeat to Argentina and the victory over the Western Force, working well with Finn Russell in what is expected to be the half-back combination for the test matches.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0702%2Fr1513950_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Los British and Irish Lions celebrando una victoria\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Los British &amp; Irish Lions celebraron su segunda victoria de la gira en Brisbane.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nOnce settled, the Lions looked impressive on offense and defense, holding their opponent scoreless after halftime for the second straight game.\n\n&#8220;We were not happy with the start of our match,&#8221; Farrell said.\n\nFarrell also highlighted the impact of the bench in previous matches and the importance of competition for a place in the team.\n\nThe Lions lost scrum-half Tomos Williams for the rest of the tour due to a hamstring injury and now have concerns about fullback Elliot Daly, who was replaced with what appeared to be a wrist injury against the Reds.\n\nThe experienced England back-line player has been among the best in the first three matches of his fourth Lions tour and scored two tries against the Force.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British &amp; Irish Lions Achieve a Convincing Victory Over the Queensland Reds British &amp; Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell expressed his satisfaction with the way his team settled after conceding two early tries, before defeating the Queensland Reds 52-12 in Brisbane on Wednesday. Just like against the Western Force in Perth on Saturday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[5210,513,2108,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-14107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-brisbane","9":"tag-british-irish-lions","10":"tag-queensland-reds","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}