{"id":23801,"date":"2025-07-26T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23801\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:52:08","slug":"how-the-series-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23801\/","title":{"rendered":"How the series was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British &amp; Irish Lions fought back to claim a 29-26 victory over the Wallabies that sealed the series at the MCG in Melbourne on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to relive all the action as we brought you updates from the game, the best from social media and all our pre and post-match content on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/british-and-irish-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> scored tries through Dan Sheehan, Tom Curry, Huw Jones and Tadhg Beirne before Hugo Keenan\u2019s late crossing snatched the win late on.<\/p>\n<p>That left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallabies<\/a>\u00a0heartbroken after a much-improved performance that saw James Slipper, Jake Gordon and Tom Wright cross in the first period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British &amp; Irish Lions fought back to claim a 29-26 victory over the Wallabies that sealed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,1378,818,1182,44,760,85],"class_list":["post-23801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-and-irish-lions","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}