The British and Irish Lions earned their most dominant win but on their tour Down Below, profitable 48-0 towards the invitational Australia-New Zealand (AUNZ) on Saturday.
Winger Duhan van der Merwe grabbed a hat trick of tries because the Lions placed on an eight-try clinic at Adelaide Oval.
The Lions additionally had tries from Ben White, Sione Tuipulotu, Scott Cummings, Ronan Kelleher and Henry Pollock whereas the AUNZ workforce fell flat regardless of fielding 14 check gamers.
“There’s sore our bodies, there is not any denying that however by way of getting up and enjoying for this shirt, (it is) really easy,” mentioned Lions quantity eight Ben Earl, judged participant of the match.
“We had one coaching session, we knew we needed to simply depend on the fundamentals and the work we have performed collectively during the last three, 4 weeks.
“So for probably the most half, we have performed that and we’re actually happy with that.
“I feel you may see how we need to play going into subsequent week,” added Earl of the series-opener towards the Wallabies. “I feel it is a good begin.”
Van der Merwe was one of many star’s of the match, touching down twice early within the first half and notched up his third attempt after the hour-mark because the Lions took their fifth straight win on their Australian tour following a clear sweep of the provincial groups.
In the meantime, Owen Farrell got here on early within the second half to a refrain of jeers from the group, changing exterior centre Huw Jones in his first look on tour since his controversial call-up by father-coach Andy Farrell.
Head coach Farrell may have been happy with the physicality and accuracy of his gamers however has one other damage concern after hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie suffered a head-knock late within the first half and was carted off the sphere.
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