{"id":14439,"date":"2025-07-03T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/waratahs-with-7-wallabies-vs-lions-tupou-and-kellaway-lead-the-xv\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:44:39","slug":"waratahs-with-7-wallabies-vs-lions-tupou-and-kellaway-lead-the-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/waratahs-with-7-wallabies-vs-lions-tupou-and-kellaway-lead-the-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Waratahs with 7 Wallabies vs. Lions: Tupou and Kellaway lead the XV"},"content":{"rendered":"The New South Wales Waratahs, with a weakened team, will face the British & Irish Lions, who arrive with great momentum.\n\nTaniela Tupou and Andrew Kellaway lead the starting team of the Waratahs, who will seek to surprise the Lions in excellent form.\n\nDespite having the experience of five players with participation in Tests, only two of them, Tane Edmed and Darby Lancaster, have been starters in an international match.\n\nWaratahs coach Dan McKellar has given young halves Teddy Wilson and Jack Bowen the opportunity to start the match against the tourists.\n\nThe Lions are coming off a resounding victory over the Queensland Reds with a score of 52-12 at Suncorp Stadium.\n\nThis was the second time in five days that the Lions had outplayed an Australian team by a wide margin, following their 54-7 victory over the Western Force on Saturday.\n\nThe Waratahs finished below the Reds in the Super Rugby table, while the Queenslanders had nine Wallabies players in their 23-man squad, compared to the Waratahs’ seven.\n\n
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Taniela Tupou buscar\u00e1 demostrar su val\u00eda cuando los Waratahs se enfrenten a los Lions en S\u00eddney el s\u00e1bado por la noche. Robbie Stephenson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe Reds managed to stay close to the Lions for much of the first half, but then conceded 31 unanswered points in the second half, suffering a heavy defeat.\n\nMatt Philip, who recently returned from two seasons in Japan, will make his debut with the Waratahs from the bench.\n\nTupou and Kellaway will seek to prove their worth, after being released from the Wallabies camp earlier in the week.\n\nTupou’s unremarkable season in Super Rugby has left him fighting for a spot on the Wallabies’ bench for the first Test against the Lions in Brisbane in just over two weeks, while Kellaway appears to be behind Harry Potter, Filipo Daugunu and even Dylan Pietsch for a spot in the backs.\n\nAn almost full Allianz Stadium is expected in Sydney, despite what could be an uneven score.\n\n

Waratahs Team to Face the Lions<\/h2>\n\n
  • Lawson Creighton<\/li>
  • Andrew Kellaway<\/li>
  • Lalakai Foketi<\/li>
  • Joey Walton<\/li>
  • Darby Lancaster<\/li>
  • Jack Bowen<\/li>
  • Teddy Wilson<\/li>
  • Hugh Sinclair<\/li>
  • Charlie Gamble<\/li>
  • Rob Leota<\/li>
  • Miles Amatosero<\/li>
  • Fergus Lee-Warner<\/li>
  • Taniela Tupou<\/li>
  • Ethan Dobbins<\/li>
  • Tom Lambert<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n

    Substitutes:<\/strong> Mahe Vailanu, Jack Barrett, Daniel Botha, Matt Philip, Jamie Adamson, Jack Grant, Tane Edmed, Henry O’Donnell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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