{"id":17091,"date":"2025-07-19T05:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-vs-wallabies-first-test-preview-analysis-and-expectations\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T09:18:07","slug":"lions-vs-wallabies-first-test-preview-analysis-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/lions-vs-wallabies-first-test-preview-analysis-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs. Wallabies: First Test Preview, Analysis and Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The action begins in test rugby!<\/h2>\n\n\nThe long-awaited clash between Australia and the British and Irish Lions has finally arrived. Both teams will face each other at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.\n\nThe wait has been long for both teams. The Lions come from a tour to South Africa marked by the COVID-19 situation, while the Wallabies will seek revenge for the 2013 series, which they lost 2-1.\n\nThe Andy Farrell-led team arrives as favorites, a label the coach wants his players to embrace.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There is no Australian team that takes a step back.<\/p><cite>Andy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFarrell also warned that no Australian team will back down, ensuring that the tourists do not get complacent.\n\nBoth teams face injury concerns. The Lions will be without Blair Kinghorn and Mack Hansen, while the Wallabies also have several absences.\n\nThey lost fly-half Noah Lolesio in the preparation match against Fiji, and Rob Valetini, Will Skelton and Langi Gleeson are also absent for Schmidt.\n\nDespite this, an exciting clash is expected. How will rugby league star Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii perform under the spotlight? Will Farrell have made the right combinations?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The action begins in test rugby! The long-awaited clash between Australia and the British and Irish Lions has finally arrived. Both teams will face each other at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. The wait has been long for both teams. The Lions come from a tour to South Africa marked by the COVID-19 situation, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,5210,1176,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-17091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-brisbane","10":"tag-british-lions","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091","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=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}