{"id":17674,"date":"2025-07-22T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/owen-farrell-leads-the-lions-they-face-first-nations-and-pasifika-xv\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:12:41","slug":"owen-farrell-leads-the-lions-they-face-first-nations-and-pasifika-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/owen-farrell-leads-the-lions-they-face-first-nations-and-pasifika-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen Farrell Leads the Lions: They Face First Nations and Pasifika XV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Match of the British and Irish Lions: Clash against First Nations and Pasifika<\/h2>\n\n\nThe last match of the British and Irish Lions tour is about to begin. They will face a combination of First Nations and Pasifika in Melbourne.\n\nCoach Andy Farrell has made significant changes to the starting team that defeated the Wallabies 27-19 on Saturday, taking a 1-0 lead in the series.\n\n\n<p>While this gives key players a deserved rest before the second match this weekend, it also represents an opportunity for others to prove their worth and aim for a place in the team for the second Test.<\/p>\n\n\nOwen Farrell, son of coach Andy, will make his first start on this tour, replacing Elliot Daly.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blair Kinghorn, who was expected to start at fullback in the Tests, will look to excel after recovering from an injury.<\/li>\n<li>Up front, Jac Morgan and Henry Pollock, who were not included in the team in Brisbane, will seek to prove their worth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe First Nations and Pasifika team boasts a combination of young and experienced veterans, led by former Wallaby Kurtley Beale, who will be seeking a victory against the Lions after having been part of the team that lost the 2013 series 2-1.\n\nAn exciting showdown is expected at Marvel Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Match of the British and Irish Lions: Clash against First Nations and Pasifika The last match of the British and Irish Lions tour is about to begin. They will face a combination of First Nations and Pasifika in Melbourne. Coach Andy Farrell has made significant changes to the starting team that defeated the Wallabies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[888,2084,6119,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-17674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-lions","9":"tag-melbourne","10":"tag-pasifika","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674","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=17674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}