British and Irish lions roar into a historic test victory

The lions clinched their first series since 2013 in the only way they know possible, with absolute drama. With a huge deficit in the first 30 they had to pull it back in the next 50 minutes, and with that the lions came out roaring. With tries from two of the biggest scorers in this tour, Jones and Curry, the lions were back in it. Pulling most of their bench in with 26 minutes left they got to work. The final try came from Hugo Keenan, but that didn’t come without drama as the wallabies appealed an earlier knock from Jac Morgan, which was cleared and the try was given. 

The lions now head to Sydney next week for the clean sweep, while the wallabies now play for pride. Todays test also marked the largest ever attendance for a lions game with 90,307 fans packing out the MCG. 

Power rankings

Andrew Porter - 5

Dan Sheehan - 6

Tadhg Furlong - 6

Maro Itoje - 6 MOTM

Ollie Chessum - 6

Tadhg Beirne - 6

Jack Conan - 6

 Tom Curry - 7

Jamison Gibson-Park - 7

 Finn Russell - 6

 James Lowe - 4

 Bundee Aki - 7

Huw Jones - 8

Tommy Freeman - 5

Hugo Keenan - 8

Jac Morgan - 7 (54’)

Blair Kinghorn - 7 (60’)

James Ryan - 6 (54’)

Ellis Genge - 7 (54’)

Owen Farrell - 6 (60’)

Will stuart - 6 (64’)

Kelleher - 6 (64’)

Scores

Australia penalty Lynagh(4)

Australia penalty Lynagh (10)

Lions try Sheehan (15)

Australia try Slipper (22)

Australia try Gordon (29)

Australia conversion Lynagh (29)

Australia try Wright (30)

Lions try T.Curry (34)

Lions try Jones (37)

Lions conversion Russell (38)

Australia penalty Lynagh (53)

Lions try Beirne (59)

Lions conversion Russell (60)

Lions try Keenan (79)