{"id":19416,"date":"2025-07-28T05:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-andy-farrell-seeks-3-0-sweep-after-epic-victory-vs-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:40:23","slug":"lions-andy-farrell-seeks-3-0-sweep-after-epic-victory-vs-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/lions-andy-farrell-seeks-3-0-sweep-after-epic-victory-vs-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions: Andy Farrell Seeks 3-0 Sweep After Epic Victory vs Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"The British and Irish Lions coach, Andy Farrell, has stated that his team will quickly focus their efforts on securing a series sweep after defeating Australia 29-26 in Melbourne on Saturday.\n\nThe Lions achieved a historic comeback, overcoming an 18-point deficit to surprise the Wallabies and win the test series with a match still to play.\n\nThe players&#8217; celebrations were heard during Farrell&#8217;s post-match press conference. The coach stated that although the group will &#8220;enjoy&#8221; the victory, they will refocus the next day to concentrate on winning the final test in Sydney.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Report: Lions beat Australia 29-26 in Melbourne<\/li><li>Player ratings for the British and Irish Lions after the victory that secured the series against Australia<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;When you see what it means to everyone there, you can hear them, can&#8217;t you?&#8221;, Farrell said.<\/p><cite>Andy Farrell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n&#8220;These lads have dreamed of being a British and Irish lion all their lives and to get to the point where we come to the MCG with over 90 thousand people with a dramatic finish like that to win the series is what dreams are made of.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;The plan will remain the same. Win or lose, we trust the plan ahead, so we&#8217;ll make sure to enjoy it tonight, that&#8217;s for sure. Because we&#8217;ve just made a bit of history, so we&#8217;re delighted with that.&#8221;\n\nCaptain Maro Itoje agreed that the Lions are eager to make more history with a sweep.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0726%2Fr1523905_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Andy Farrell celebra con su hijo Owen (L) y Sione Tuipulotu. David Rogers\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;When we met, I think the first time we met was in London or Dublin&#8230; When we met, Big Faz [Farrell] made the call, he wants us to go out here and win,&#8221; Itoje said in the press conference.<\/p><cite>Maro Itoje<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n&#8220;He wants us to win everything. So don&#8217;t get me wrong. Absolutely delighted with today&#8217;s result, but we want to do it again next week.\n\n&#8220;These are one of the moments in your life that you will treasure. Very often in sports you have to move on to the next thing, focus on what&#8217;s next, focus on the next challenge. And we will certainly do that after tonight&#8217;s celebration.&#8221;\n\n&#8220;But every now and then I think it&#8217;s important to savor the moment.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British and Irish Lions coach, Andy Farrell, has stated that his team will quickly focus their efforts on securing a series sweep after defeating Australia 29-26 in Melbourne on Saturday. The Lions achieved a historic comeback, overcoming an 18-point deficit to surprise the Wallabies and win the test series with a match still to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[428,886,203,5404],"class_list":{"0":"post-19416","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-series"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416","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=19416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}