Lions score eight tries in win over Queensland Reds

This article was last updated on July 3, 2025

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USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…Like last weekend in Perth, the Lions toiled in the early exchanges, the Reds setting about them with a vengeance, the outstanding centre Hunter Paisami leading the charge.

Queensland Reds: (12) 12

Tries: Toomaga-Allen, Flook Con: McLaughlin-Phillips

British and Irish Lions (21) 52

Tries: Freeman 2, Porter, Van der Merwe, Itoje, Morgan, Jones, Ringrose Cons: Russell 4, F Smith 2

Tommy Freeman scored twice as the British and Irish Lions ran in eight tries in a comprehensive victory over the Queensland Reds in Brisbane.

The Lions turned around at the break with a 21-12 lead, Andrew Porter and Duhan van der Merwe also going over and Jeffery Toomaga-Allen and Josh Flook scoring for the hosts, who started with a bang.

The Reds took the lead with that try from Toomaga-Allen and regained it when Flook scored, but the Lions dominated thereafter.

There was a big performance from captain Maro Itoje, who scored the fourth, and a huge shift from Jac Morgan, who got the fifth. Freeman added a sixth and the seventh came when Huw Jones broke away on his own

In the last act, Garry Ringrose made it eight tries and more than a half-century for the second game running.

Finn Russell (four) and his replacement Fin Smith (two) landed six of the eight conversions as the Lions made it two wins from two on Australian soil.

There are some concerns for Elliot Daly, who went off in discomfort in the second half with an arm injury.

Daly, one of the players of the trip so far, had come into the team after Hugo Keenan withdrew before kick-off with illness.

Some challenges off the pitch, then, but on it the Lions, after an iffy start, pulled away impressively.