Get your tickets to see the Wallabies tackle the British & Irish Lions in Sydney on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\nAfter winning the first match 27-19 in Brisbane, the men in red will be presented with the series cup in Sydney following the third Test.<\/p>\n
Coach Andy Farrell said it was a fairytale victory.<\/p>\n
“This is a dream for everyone in our dressing room,” he said.<\/p>\n
“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, 90,000 people, with a dramatic finish like that to win the series, is what dreams are made of and no-one can deny that for us now,.<\/p>\n
“We are absolutely delighted that we showed the courage of what it takes to be a Lion.”<\/p>\n
The last time the Lions won a series 3-0 was in 1904 and skipper Maro Itoje said that remained the target, with the side also unbeaten in tour games.<\/p>\n
“I think the first time we met, Big Faz (Farrell) made the call, he wants us to go out here and win everything,” the lock said.<\/p>\n
“Don’t get me wrong, absolutely delighted with the result tonight, but we want to go again next week.<\/p>\n
“This will live long in the memory – often in sport, you have to move on to the next thing, focus on the next challenge, and no doubt we will do that after tonight’s celebration.”<\/p>\n
Farrell said that despite already wrapping up the series he wouldn’t change the squad’s approach for the third and final match.<\/p>\n
“No, the plan will stay the same – win or lose we trust the plan ahead,” the Ireland coach said.<\/p>\n
“We’ll make sure that we enjoy tonight, that’s for sure, because we’ve just made a bit of history, so we’re delighted with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jubilant British and Irish Lions will only take one night to celebrate before setting their sights on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,6408,760,85],"class_list":["post-24781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-irish-lions","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781","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=24781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}