{"id":18481,"date":"2025-07-25T06:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-vs-australia-farrell-makes-changes-for-second-test\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:07:03","slug":"lions-vs-australia-farrell-makes-changes-for-second-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/lions-vs-australia-farrell-makes-changes-for-second-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs Australia: Farrell Makes Changes for Second Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Farrell Makes Key Changes for the Second Lions Test against Australia<\/h2>\n\nBritish and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has made three significant changes to his starting team 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 enter the starting team, replacing Sione Tuipulotu, Joe McCarthy, and Ellis Genge, respectively.\n\nFarrell intended to make a further change, selecting Garry Ringrose instead of Huw Jones, but the Irish player had to withdraw due to a concussion suffered during training.\n\n\n
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“Garry was selected, but unfortunately in today’s training he had to withdraw,” said Farrell.<\/p>\n\nAndy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe left pillar Genge is on the bench, while second row McCarthy and center Tuipulotu are out of the squad due to foot and hamstring injuries, respectively.\n\nFarrell has also made four changes to the replacements, with flanker Jac Morgan, second row James Ryan, fly-half\/centre Owen Farrell and fullback Blair Kinghorn added to the team.\n\n\n

\"Bundee<\/figure>\n\n\nMorgan’s selection ensures Welsh presence in the team after the principality had no representation in a test team, in Brisbane, for the first time since the late 19th century.\n\n\n
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“We have put ourselves in a good position after the first test, but we know there will be a massive reaction from this Wallaby team,” said Farrell.<\/p>\n\nAndy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n“Everyone saw the quality they have in Brisbane, and we know we’ll have to be much better than we were last week.”\n\nThe Lions secured a dominant 27-19 victory in the first test in Brisbane.\n\n\n

Lions Team for the Second Test<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • Hugo Keenan<\/li>
  • Tommy Freeman<\/li>
  • Huw Jones<\/li>
  • Bundee Aki<\/li>
  • James Lowe<\/li>
  • Finn Russell<\/li>
  • Jamison Gibson-Park<\/li>
  • Jack Conan<\/li>
  • Tom Curry<\/li>
  • Tadhg Beirne<\/li>
  • Ollie Chessum<\/li>
  • Maro Itoje (captain)<\/li>
  • Tadhg Furlong<\/li>
  • Dan Sheehan<\/li>
  • Andrew Porter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nSubstitutes:<\/strong> Ronan Kelleher, Ellis Genge, Will Stuart, James Ryan, Jac Morgan, Alex Mitchell, Owen Farrell, Blair Kinghorn.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Andy Farrell Makes Key Changes for the Second Lions Test against Australia British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell has made three significant changes to his starting team 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 enter the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,886,203,679],"class_list":{"0":"post-18481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-british-and-irish-lions","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-test"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","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=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}