{"id":40582,"date":"2025-08-02T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40582\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:42:09","slug":"lions-vs-australia-live-third-test-reaction-try-scorers-lineups-updates-from-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40582\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions vs Australia LIVE: Third Test reaction, try-scorers, lineups &#038; updates from Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Australia will be kicking themselves&#8217;published at 14:21 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>14:21 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Australia 22-12 Lions<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c36c8028-cb80-4a44-baab-093d555acfff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Shane Horgan<br \/>2005 Lion and former Ireland wing<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weather had a significant bearing on the game, it was difficult to retain the ball. The Lions like to pass wide. They tried to do that in the second half which ultimately led to the Jorgensen try, it was a poor tactic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They tried to kick, but it was done poorly, they tried to contest the ball but not very well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was definitely a difference in the way Australia prepared for this game, Nic White really led and controlled this game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those big powerful runners that we didn\u2019t see in the first Test, we saw some last week and saw more this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And what could&#8217;ve been if not for that very slow start, they&#8217;ll be kicking themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Australia will be kicking themselves&#8217;published at 14:21 British Summer Time 14:21 BST FT: Australia 22-12 Lions Shane Horgan2005&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-40582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}