AUNZ XV 0-48 British and Irish Lions: Duhan van der Merwe scores hat-trick as tourists run riot in Adelaide | Rugby Union News

The British and Irish lions published a declaration of intent to Australia before the test of tests with a 48-0 mauling of an invitational XV in Adelaide.

In their final sale before the first test next Saturday in Brisbane, the Lions have delivered the most complete performance on Tower to date, canceling a team that had eight blacks and six Wallabies with eight unanswered trials.

Duhan Van der Merwe scored a hat -trick and was joined on the match sheet by Scottish teammates Ben White, Sione Tuipulotu and Scott Cummings.

Ireland Hooker Ronan Kelleher scored the seventh of the tourists and, after Owen Farrell came out of the bench for his first appearance during his fourth lions tour, the flanker in England Henry Pollock finished the rout while the Lions finally reached the intensity of the test match as they claimed their fifth victory on the Australian soil.

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The Lions made a lightning start to the Oval Adelaide, the side back Hugo Keenan, the rapid alignment of the alignment of the Aunz XV team taking a nap while Van der Merwe was published for the opening test in seven minutes.

One became two minutes later, half of white melee shooting superbly at the break while he was flowing under the posts for the second test of the Lions.

Van der Merwe added its second halfway to first half, applying the final touch to a well-worked movement in the hands to underline the domination of the lions, with only the end Smith, the end of Smith forms the T-shirt preventing tourists from checking at one point per minute.

An encouraging performance in the first half of the Lions was offset by the loss of Luke Cowan-Dickie to a serious head / neck injury, although the whore in England will emerge on the sidelines in the second period after being removed from the ground on a motorized stretcher.

It only took four minutes for the Lions to pick up where they stopped in the second half, Center Tuipulotu crossing the bottom line of Aunz before winning them under the posts.

In a nod to its potential involvement in the first test, the impressive Huw Jones was replaced by England and the half-flies of the Saracens Farrell, with Marcus Smith giving a rare stay at the half-theft for the last 29 minutes.

The Harlequins 10 inserted his first conversion after Lock Cummings made his way to become the fourth Scottish scorer with the fifth of the Lions just after the hour.

Van der Merwe finished her hat -trick with another simple finish in the corner two minutes later, before Kelleher had the Scottish grip on the trosing while he was forced after another fast line.

And in a real way, Pollock had the last word because he was rewarded for having hunted a kick from Farrell Frandbber in the area in order where he approached the section to put the seal on a victory of the declaration lions.

Farrell welcomes the selection dilemmas

Lions head coach Andy Farrell speaks to Sky Sports: “I thought it was a good professional performance.

“We stayed there, it was never going to be perfect and we continued as a team, that’s the main thing. There were great individual performances, but we were well generous in a team.

“We have to take advantage of a little stop time because it has been full for 14 days, it was an old difficult block. We want people to put their hands and this group will affect each other and continue the series of tests together.”

Sky Sports will exclusively show the tour of the British and Irish lions in 2025 in Australia, with the three tests against the Wallabies and six warm -up matches to show exclusively live.

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