{"id":18011,"date":"2025-07-24T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-aki-chessum-and-porter-start-for-the-second-test-against-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:40:24","slug":"lions-aki-chessum-and-porter-start-for-the-second-test-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/lions-aki-chessum-and-porter-start-for-the-second-test-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions: Aki, Chessum and Porter start for the second Test against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Changes in the Lions&#8217; Starting XV for the Second Test against Australia<\/h2>\n\nThe British and Irish Lions coach, Andy Farrell, has made three significant changes to his starting lineup to face Australia in the second Test, which will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.\n\nBundee Aki, Ollie Chessum, and Andrew Porter have been included in the starting team, replacing Sione Tuipulotu, Joe McCarthy, and Ellis Genge, respectively.\n\nGenge, who played as a loosehead prop, is now on the bench. On the other hand, McCarthy and Tuipulotu, due to foot injuries and a hamstring problem, respectively, are not part of the team.\n\nFarrell has also made four changes to the replacements, with the inclusion of wing Jac Morgan, second row James Ryan, fly-half\/centre Owen Farrell and fullback Blair Kinghorn.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0702%2Fr1513904_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Bundee Aki replaces Sione Tuipulotu in the Lions centres\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<strong>Lions&#8217; Lineup for the Second Test:<\/strong>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hugo Keenan<\/li><li>Tommy Freeman<\/li><li>Huw Jones<\/li><li>Bundee Aki<\/li><li>James Lowe<\/li><li>Finn Russell<\/li><li>Jamison Gibson-Park<\/li><li>Jack Conan<\/li><li>Tom Curry<\/li><li>Tadhg Beirne<\/li><li>Ollie Chessum<\/li><li>Maro Itoje (captain)<\/li><li>Tadhg Furlong<\/li><li>Dan Sheehan<\/li><li>Andrew Porter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<strong>Substitutes:<\/strong> Ronan Kelleher, Ellis Genge, Will Stuart, James Ryan, Jac Morgan, Alex Mitchell, Owen Farrell, Blair Kinghorn.\n\nMore information about this exciting meeting is expected.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in the Lions&#8217; Starting XV for the Second Test against Australia The British and Irish Lions coach, Andy Farrell, has made three significant changes to his starting lineup to face Australia in the second Test, which will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. Bundee Aki, Ollie Chessum, and Andrew Porter have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,888,203,6238],"class_list":{"0":"post-18011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-lions","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-second-test"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011","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=18011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}