{"id":39828,"date":"2025-08-02T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39828\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:11:08","slug":"australia-vs-british-and-irish-lions-score-rugby-union-result-highlights-as-wallabies-take-8-0-lead-into-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39828\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs. British and Irish Lions score: Rugby union result, highlights as Wallabies take 8-0 lead into second half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia produced a battling, gutsy first-half performance in Sydney, taking an 8-0 lead over the British and Irish Lions in the third Test.<\/p>\n<p>The Wallabies are trying to avert the humiliation of suffering a 3-0 whitewash defeat and began with fierce intent amid a downpour at the Accor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Pietsch went over in the corner inside five minutes and the winger was an effervescent presence in defence, while captain and scrum-half Nic White was superb on his international farewell.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions&#8217; kicking game faltered, they were second best at the scrum and had coughed up four turnovers inside the first 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A relentless period of Australian pressure either side of the half hour concluded with Tom Lynagh putting over a routine penalty. Earlier in that passage of play, the Lions lost captain Maro Itoje to a mouth injury and his night was over when he failed an HIA.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/rugby-union\/news\/british-irish-lions-fixtures-schedule-results-2025-australia\/07dc782bc2cbe3360e7546c0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Full schedule for the Lions&#8217; 2025 tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia vs. British and Irish Lions third Test score\u00a0ScoreTries (Conv.)PenaltiesAustralia8Pietsch 7&#8217;Lynagh 34&#8217;Lions0\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Starting XVs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Australia: 15. Tom Wright, 14. Max Jorgensen, 13. Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, 12. Len Ikitau, 11. Dylan Pietsch, 10. Tom Lynagh, 9. Nic White; 1. James Slipper, 2. Billy Pollard, 3. Taniela Tupou, 4. Nick Frost, 5. Will Skelton, 6. Tom Hooper, 7. Fraser McReight, 8. Harry Wilson (C)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Replacements: 16. Brandon Paenga-Amosa, 17. Angus Bell, 18. Zane Nonggorr, 19. Jeremy Williams, 20. Langi Gleeson, 21. Tate McDermott, 22. Ben Donaldson, 23. Andrew Kellaway<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Lions: 15. Hugo Keenan, 14. Tommy Freeman, 13. Huw Jones, 12. Bundee Aki, 11. Blair Kinghorn, 10. Finn Russell, 9. Jamison Gibson-Park; 1. Andrew Porter, 2. Dan Sheehan, 3. Tadhg Furlong, 4. Maro Itoje (C), 5. Ryan James, 6. Tadhg Beirne, 7. Tom Curry, 8. Jack Conan<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Replacements:\u00a016. Ronan Kelleher, 17. Ellis Genge, 18. Will Stuart, 19. Ollie Chessum, 20. Jac Morgan, 21. Ben Earl, 22. Alex Mitchell, 23. Owen Farrell<\/p>\n<p>Australia vs. British and Irish Lions third Test highlightsHalftime<\/p>\n<p>Australia very good value for their lead. White has been superb so far on his international farewell. Pretty ragged from the Lions and, if they&#8217;re going to turn this around, they&#8217;ll have to do so without skipper Itoje, who has failed a HIA after going off to have a mouth injury tended to.<\/p>\n<p>34 mins: After turning down a couple of kickable penalties, the Wallabies eventually take the three at the end of a relentless spell of pressure near the Lions line. Offside is called and Lynagh pops a routine effort over. The weather remains absolutely wretched out there.<\/p>\n<p>7 mins: Australia hit the front and it&#8217;s a wonderfully worked try as Pietsch goes over in the corner. Lynagh can&#8217;t add the extras.\u00a0Australia 5-0 Lions<\/p>\n<p>Available in the UK<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">First blood to Australia! Dylan Pietsch with a textbook finish in the corner! \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tft0jiZI36\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Tft0jiZI36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Rugby Union (@SkySportsRugby) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsRugby\/status\/1951587761762255142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 2, 2025<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dan Sheehan\" image_resolution=\"16:9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227627314.jpg.webp.webp\" title=\"Dan Sheehan\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/>Australia vs. British and Irish Lions third Test\u00a0live stream, TV channelAustralia<\/p>\n<p>All Lions matches in 2025 will be streamed live via Stan Sport.\u00a0All the Test matches against the Wallabies will also be broadcast on Channel Nine.<\/p>\n<p>UKTV channel: Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports ActionLive stream: Sky Go app<\/p>\n<p>Fans in the United Kingdom can catch the action live on Sky Sports, with coverage beginning at 10 a.m. BST on both Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Action.<\/p>\n<p>What time does Australia vs. British and Irish Lions third Test kick off?<\/p>\n<p>The match takes place at Accor Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales. It will kick off at 8:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. BST).<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia produced a battling, gutsy first-half performance in Sydney, taking an 8-0 lead over the British and Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-39828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828","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=39828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}