{"id":270238,"date":"2025-11-08T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:08:08","slug":"kangaroos-focus-on-wonderful-opportunity-in-final-ashes-test-against-england-at-headingley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270238\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroos focus on ‘wonderful opportunity’ in final Ashes Test against England at Headingley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia captain Isaah Yeo says his side has not played to its full potential in the Ashes series, despite convincing wins in the first two Tests against England.<\/p>\n

The Kangaroos triumphed 26-6 in the first Test at Wembley<\/a>, before clinching a series victory with a 14-4 defeat of England at Everton Stadium last Sunday AEDT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final Test will be played at a sold-out Headingley in Leeds on Sunday morning AEDT.<\/p>\n

Yeo said the Kangaroos were determined to produce a “full 80-minute performance” as they chased a series clean sweep.<\/p>\n

“We just haven’t done that yet, but it makes for a wonderful opportunity,” he said.<\/p>\n

“England will be all out to make sure it’s not a 3-0 whitewash and we’re trying to make sure it is.<\/p>\n

Pitch invader stands with Kangaroos<\/a><\/p>\n

A man is arrested by police after he lined up next to Cameron Munster before the Kangaroos’ victory over England in the second Ashes Test in England.<\/p>\n

“In the history of the game, you don’t want to lose these things.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This tour’s been truly something special and something we will look back on in our careers and be really fond of having been over here.”<\/p>\n

Yeo said England was a far better opponent than the scorelines in the opening two Tests suggested.<\/p>\n

“There was a five-minute period there in that second game where it could have gone either way and we were lucky enough to get a couple of tries,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There were moments we certainly weren’t at our best, but that was because of the standard they were playing at as well.<\/p>\n

“The way they’ve competed through this whole series has been outstanding.”<\/p>\n

Yeo has returned to the Kangaroos line-up after missing the second Test because of concussion protocols.<\/p>\n

He suffered a head knock early in the Wembley Test a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n

Harry Grant captained the Kangaroos in Yeo’s teammate’s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Isaah Yeo says his side has not played to its full potential in the Ashes series,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13285,157225,64,63,1208,65821,3389,157224,3195,65816,13391,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-270238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ashes","9":"tag-ashes-test-series","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-headingley","14":"tag-international","15":"tag-issah-yeo","16":"tag-kangaroos","17":"tag-leeds","18":"tag-reece-walsh","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270238","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=270238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}