{"id":14759,"date":"2025-07-05T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pollock-ok-farrell-tranquil-after-lions-victory-minimal-concern\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:10:31","slug":"pollock-ok-farrell-tranquil-after-lions-victory-minimal-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/pollock-ok-farrell-tranquil-after-lions-victory-minimal-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollock OK: Farrell Tranquil After Lions Victory, Minimal Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Farrell Reports on Team Health After Lions Victory<\/h2>\n\nBritish &amp; Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has confirmed that Henry Pollock&#8217;s absence before the start of the match was a precautionary measure. In addition, Farrell reported that the rest of the team is in good health after the victory over the New South Wales Waratahs on Saturday.\n\nPollock, who has had a meteoric rise this year, was scheduled to play as a blindside flanker in his third match with the Lions, but was ultimately withdrawn from the match at the Sydney Football Stadium.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was just a bit of caution due to a calf strain that was tight enough this morning, so, knowing what we knew, there was no need to risk it.<\/p><cite>Andy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Lions have suffered significant losses in their first two matches in Australia. Tomos Williams suffered a hamstring injury and Elliot Daly broke his arm.\n\nFarrell noted that his team emerged unscathed from Saturday&#8217;s match.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0705%2Fr1515180_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAndy Farrell played down any concerns about Henry Pollock.\n\nFarrell was less impressed with his team&#8217;s error-ridden performance and suggested that the Waratahs might have watered the field before the match to make conditions difficult.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Well, that&#8217;s a good tactic on their part, isn&#8217;t it? The ball slips, the ruck is ferocious enough and the line speed is high octane on their part too.<\/p><cite>Andy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFarrell brought his son Owen into the team as a replacement due to injury, but indicated that Wednesday&#8217;s match against the ACT Brumbies would likely come too soon for him.\n\nThe Brumbies defeated the Lions on their last tour of Australia 12 years ago.\n\n&#8220;It looks like there might be a little rain, so that&#8217;s good for us, we also need to play in those conditions,&#8221; Farrell said.\n\n&#8220;But we also know they&#8217;re a top-tier team in the Australian division, and we also know what happened with the Lions in 2013, so we know Wednesday is a big day for all of us.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farrell Reports on Team Health After Lions Victory British &amp; Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has confirmed that Henry Pollock&#8217;s absence before the start of the match was a precautionary measure. In addition, Farrell reported that the rest of the team is in good health after the victory over the New South Wales Waratahs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[885,513,5374,1277],"class_list":{"0":"post-14759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-british-irish-lions","10":"tag-calf-strain","11":"tag-henry-pollock"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759","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=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}