Frustrated Lions Toil In Unimpressive Win

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BBC Scotland's main sports writer successful Australia

New South Wales Waratahs (5) 10

Tries: Lancaster, Dobbins

British and Irish Lions (14) 21

Tries: Jones 2, Mitchell Cons: F Smith 3

Huw Jones scored doubly arsenic nan error-ridden Lions stumbled to an 11-point triumph complete nan understrength Waratahs successful Sydney.

Both of nan Scotland centre's tries came successful nan opening half pinch Fin Smith converting each clip to put nan Lions into a 14-0 lead.

Waratahs helping Darby Lancaster responded conscionable earlier nan half-time break and hooker Ethan Dobbins barged complete conscionable aft to make it a four-point game.

Playing frantically and pinch not a batch of accuracy, nan Lions did find their scope done nan awesome Alex Mitchell who dummied his measurement complete for nan tourists' 3rd towards nan midway constituent of nan 2nd half.

Smith made it 3 from 3 pinch nan footwear but nan disjointed Lions couldn't build connected it. The driven Waratahs, missing a clutch of their champion players astatine nan extremity of a disappointing season, made it a profoundly frustrating nighttime for Andy Farrell's team, contempt winning a 3rd consecutive crippled connected Australian soil.

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Line-ups

NSW Waratahs: Creighton; Kellaway, Foketi, Walton, Lancaster; Bowen, Wilson; Lambert, Dobbins, Tupou, Lee-Warner, Amatosero, Leota, Gamble, Sinclair.

Replacements: Vailanu, Barrett, Botha, Philip, Adamson, Grant, Edmed, O'Donnell.

British and Irish Lions: Keenan; Hansen, Jones, Tuipulotu, Kinghorn; Smith, Mitchell; Schoeman, Cowan-Dickie, Bealham, Cummings, Ryan, Beirne, Van der Flier, Earl.

Replacements: Sheehan, Genge, Furlong, McCarthy, Morgan, White, M Smith, Van der Merwe.