{"id":39563,"date":"2025-08-02T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39563\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:30:14","slug":"wallabies-hunt-for-victory-against-british-irish-lions-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39563\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies hunt for victory against British &#038; Irish Lions in series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies will be out to end the British &amp; Irish Lions series on a high as they face the Lions in the final Test in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The visitors wrapped up the series in Melbourne after a 79th minute winner to Hugo Keenan at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch the Wallabies take on the British &amp; Irish Lions live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Joe Schmidt has called Taniela Tupou, Dylan Pietsch and Tom Hooper into the starting side as they look to avoid a clean sweep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Meanwhile, the Lions are hunting for a perfect Australian tour after sweeping through the tour matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Scotland outside back Blair Kinghorn has been named to start, with Tadhg Furlong set to equal Wales\u2019 Alun Wyn Jones in starting nine consecutive Lions Test matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW OR THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/221\/2025\/11612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">MATCH CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRE-MATCH<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">KO T-MIN 90: Hello and welcome to Rugby.com.au&#8217;s coverage of the final British &amp; Irish Lions test against the Wallabies. The series might be over, but no one has told either side or the fans, with both sides hungry to get a result and the sold out sign up at Accor Stadium &#8211; with 83,000 expected.<\/p>\n<p>Wallabies 0&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Tries: <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Con: <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Pen: <\/p>\n<p>British &amp; Irish Lions 0&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Tries: <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Con: <\/p>\n<p>WALLABIES v BRITISH &amp; IRISH LIONS TEAMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">WALLABIES (15-1):\u00a0Tom Wright; Max Jorgensen, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, Len Ikitau, Dylan Pietsch; Tom Lynagh, Nic White; Harry Wilson (capt), Fraser McReight, Tom Hooper; Will Skelton, Nick Frost; Taniela Tupou, Billy Pollard, James Slipper<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Brandon Paenga-Amosa, Angus Bell, Zane Nonggorr, Jeremy Williams, Langi Gleeson,\u00a0 Tate McDermott, Ben Donaldson, Andrew Kellaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">LIONS (15-1):\u00a0Hugo Keenan; Tommy Freeman, Huw Jones, Bundee Aki, Blair Kinghorn; Finn Russell, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jack Conan, Tom Curry, Tadhg Beirne; James Ryan, Maro Itoje (capt); Tadgh Furlong, Dan Sheehan, Andrew Porter<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Ronan Kelleher, Ellis Genge, Will Stuart, Ollie Chessum, Jac Morgan, Ben Earl, Alex Mitchell, Owen Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Referee:\u00a0Nika Amashukeli (GRU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Assistant Referees:\u00a0Ben O\u2019Keeffe (NZR), Andrea Piardi (FIR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">TMO:\u00a0Marius Jonker (SARU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FPRO:\u00a0Richard Kelly (NZR)<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO WATCH WALLABIES v BRITISH &amp; IRISH LIONS SYDNEY MATCH<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Wallabies&#8217; clash with the British &amp; Irish Lions will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport and Channel Nine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Coverage will be live and ad-free on Stan Sport, slated to start at 7:00 pm AEST with kickoff expected at 8:00 pm AEST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">It will also be shown on Channel Nine, with coverage starting from 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wallabies will be out to end the British &amp; Irish Lions series on a high as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,6408,760,85,2500],"class_list":["post-39563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-irish-lions","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39563","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=39563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}