{"id":20552,"date":"2025-07-31T23:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/wallabies-suffer-key-loss-paenga-amosa-to-the-rescue-against-lions\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:43:02","slug":"wallabies-suffer-key-loss-paenga-amosa-to-the-rescue-against-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/wallabies-suffer-key-loss-paenga-amosa-to-the-rescue-against-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies Suffer Key Loss: Paenga-Amosa to the Rescue Against Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Injuries Plague the Wallabies: Paenga-Amosa Receives Emergency Call<\/h2>\n<p>Another blow for the Wallabies. Joe Schmidt&#8217;s team, already physically and psychologically affected, faces a critical moment that could mark a turning point in the history of Australian sport.<\/p>\n<p>From outside the team, Brandon Paenga-Amosa has received an emergency call from Schmidt to join the bench in the third and final match of Australia against the British and Irish Lions in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Pollard has been promoted to the starting team after the first-choice hooker, David Porecki, was ruled out on Friday due to a leg injury. Paenga-Amosa quickly joined the camp to join the team.<\/p>\n<p>This late restructuring comes after prominent forwards Allan Alaalatoa and Rob Valetini were already ruled out for one of the Wallabies&#8217; most significant matches.<\/p>\n<p>A defeat at Accor Stadium would condemn the Wallabies to their first 3-0 series sweep at home by the Lions since 1904.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Matt Faessler, from the Queensland Reds team, initially selected ahead of Pollard as a reserve hooker, was also ruled out after suffering a calf injury during the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries Plague the Wallabies: Paenga-Amosa Receives Emergency Call Another blow for the Wallabies. Joe Schmidt&#8217;s team, already physically and psychologically affected, faces a critical moment that could mark a turning point in the history of Australian sport. From outside the team, Brandon Paenga-Amosa has received an emergency call from Schmidt to join the bench in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[290,888,679,921],"class_list":{"0":"post-20552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-lions","10":"tag-test","11":"tag-wallabies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","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=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}