Match report – Western Force 7 – 54 Lions

Tomos Williams and Elliot Daly Doubles Plus try Dan Sheehan, Garry Ringrose, Joe McCarthy and Alex Mitchell inspire the victory of the lions of eight series on Western force; Watch every match of the Lions 2025 tour – including the three tests against the Wallabies – live on Sky Sports

The British and Irish lions produced a devastating increase in the second half to defeat Western Force 54-7, but the victory in Perth was spoiled by the loss of the half-Made Tomos Williams to an injury to the hamstrings.

The Lions led 21-7 at the break of the Optus stadium thanks to the tests of Dan Sheehan, Williams and Elliot Daly, but were hampered by a bad discipline, with Henry Pollock Sinned after a succession of penalties.

But the lions drew an emphatic line under their screen disjointed in the first half, moving away from the force with five unanswered trials after the breakdown of a performance that threw the foundations for the future and saw the lowest of Australian Australian franchises exhibiting the improvement areas.

Scrum-Half Williams, who injured his hamstrings in the process of marking his second try, triggered the burst of the second half that saw Daly Cross for her second and Garry Ringrose, Joe McCarthy and Alex Mitchell all touched to win a first victory on Australian soil for the Andy Farrell team.

With the victory tainted by Williams’ injury, the lions face a nervous expectation to learn the extent of the damage suffered from his hamstrings, with Farrell Sky Sports: “We will evaluate Tomos Williams in the morning, he is an ischio-leg, you do not know what these things look like.”

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The lions started strongly against the Western force while Dan Sheehan finished a chic test to put his side before early

The Lions claim the first victory in Australia

It only took the Lions for two minutes to show their quality, Sheehan hitting a transverse kick in the James Lowe wing path, who sent his teammate to Ireland for the opening test of his beginnings as captain of the Lions with a scandalous unloading of the back of his hand.

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Western force makes an immediate response against the Lions while Captain Nic White passes

Captain Nic White made his way over the test line while Western Force responded immediately to the early score of the Lions, they did not know at the time that it would be their last score action.

After four penalties in the first 15 minutes, a superb rupture and unloading of the Pollock bridge sent the Scrum-Half Williams to Wales for a lead restoration score.

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Henry Pollock followed a large explosion of rhythm with a chic pass to install Tomos Williams during the shock of Lions against Western Force

Pollock was again at the center and the center after Daly applied the final touch to a rapid penalty from Finn Russell, triggering a fray between the two sets of players for his exuberant celebrations.

The Northampton striker escaped a punishment on this occasion, but he was sent to the Sin-Bin on the half-time after having failed to free himself in the tackle, although he did not cost the lions, who were standing to reach the interval two scores to come.

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Finn Russell’s rapid turn catches the Western force off guard and helps to set up Elliot Daly trying for lions!

Pollock had not yet joined the game when the Lions hit again at the start of the second half with Wings Mack Hansen and Lowe involved in a counterattack that ended with Williams plunging around the corner.

Barely 10 minutes after the interval and the defense of force was already tiring, allowing tourists to force an easy opening with Hansen providing Ringrose with the score pass.

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Williams finished a quick counterattack for lions

Back on the field, Pollock jumped on a loose ball to launch a counter that ended with McCarthy Crossing and the gaps continued to appear with Marcus Smith, for Russell in half the fly, sending Daly before Mitchell won the final blow.

Farrell greets the lions to “keep the bloody”

The head coach of Lions Andy Farrell in Sky Sports: “Our discipline in the first half was not good, when we acquired our composure in the second half, we were able to be nice and calm and our defense improved out of sight.

“We were able to force the mistakes and mark tests at the back. I’m glad we composed ourselves at halftime and kept our composure throughout the second half. We are operational, and we will continue to push each other.”

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Speaking after the dominant victory of his team on Western Force, the Lions head coach said they were “operational” and admitted that Western Force was a good test for the team.

‘A taste of what will happen’

Player of the match – Joe McCarthy – Speaking to Sky Sports: “It was difficult. It’s probably a taste of what will happen: Australians like to play ball and play quickly.

“We came out of the blocks that shoot, then they returned harshly, and our own indiscipline left them in it. There is a lot to review and we will be much better for that.

“We want to be a ruthless side and show that every week. There is a lot to improve. I think I have brought the spider cloths, so I should fly for the rest of the tour now.”

What is the next step for Lions?

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Look at the tour of the British and Irish Lions in Australia live on Sky Sports this summer

Each match of the tour of the British and Irish lions in 2025 – including the three tests against the Wallabies and six warm -up matches – will be presented exclusively live on Sky Sports.

The Lions tour in Australia continues with its second warm-up match against Queensland Reds in Brisbane (July 2), the Waratahs in Sydney (July 5), The Brumbies de Canberra (July 9), an invitation-Zélandaise and New Zealand team in Adélaïde (July 12) and the rebels in Melbourne (July 22).

This match will take place after the opening test in Brisbane on July 19, with the second test at MCG in Melbourne on July 26 and the final test of the Accor stadium in Sydney on August 2. Distribute the British and Irish lions without contract