Lions v Australia, second Test: live Suck it in boys, and use this to your advantage. Here is a gutted Brian O'Driscoll: We were not in control of the game but we were six points clear. It's very disappointing. We were loose at the end there. And we were not able to kill the game. We have a massive week from a mental and physical point of view. The momentum will be with them now. There is no reason why we can't beat them again. Now here's captain Sam Warburton: The boys will wake up and realise that we still have a Test series up for grabs. It is going to be won by a whisker next week, and we just hope that it is us. Australia got hold of us in our 22 and we found it difficult to get out. Territory is everything. I thought it was a good contest. I felt something in my hamstring. Fingers crossed I'll be OK. We can still achieve our dream, it's still on. And tryscorer Adam Ashley-Cooper. Test match is about 80 minutes and we ground out a result. Luckily we found the line. I'm very proud to be a part of this team and score the try. But it is about the team. It is going to make a cracking final now in Sydney. We hold the momentum now. 80min Messy from the Aussie line, but they just about grab it. Time ticking down ... They will just rumble it through the forward now. Up the jumper time. The Lions have a lift line! It's a penalty. The hooter goes and the Lions run it from their 22. Oh my goodness! The Lions win a penalty, just inside their half! Can Halfpenny kick from here? Earlier in the game he hit the bar from closer in. Last kick of the game. Can he do it? No! It doesn't have the legs! Bad luck. The ball is gathered and booted gleefully behind. The Aussies scream with delight, and it's all too much for James Horwill. He is blubbering! Amazing drama. 78min And the Wallabies make a mistake now as O'Connor takes it back into his 22 to clear, well Genia feeds him from just outside the 22. He has a 60 metre loss. Just when the Lions needed the perfect lineout they lose it at the tail. Sub Liam Gill manages to gobble it, and the Wallabies win the penalty. O'Connor humps clear. Chance gone now for the Lions? Looks like it at the moment. 77min Yes, Christian Leali'ifano steers in his kick with some lovely curl from the left. The Aussies are ahead with three minutes left. 75min AUSTRALIA 14-15 LIONS And the Aussies have scored. That has been coming. It went right and O'Connor feeds Adam Ashley-Cooper five metres outm he steps inside and he is over. They are one point behind. Christian Leali'ifano could be a match winner here. 74min The Aussies win their line and trundle up to the 22 metre line now. Good from Hooper again. He makes good yards. Folau gets through a gap but Lydiate just scrags him. They are up to the five metre line. 72min No, Horwill goes for the scrum. What an odd call, and the rue it. They knock on. That was Folau, and the Lions clear towards their 10 metre line from Sexton. 70min BOD kicks an advantage away, and here is Folau on the right. Bodies thrown at him. Tense now. And it looks as though the Aussies will score. O'Connor kicks out to the left, and Joe Tomane catches, but Bowe is on him. And the referee comes back for an offside. Three points, surely? 69min Sexton humps a high kick, and Bowe catches impressively. Alyn-Wyn Jones has a nice dummy there, but they are whistled for an infringement. 67min Warburton is off. He is hobbling off. He was hit badly in a ruck by James Slipper, the Aussie replacement. Sexton is injured, too, but he is staying on the pitch. On comes Tom Croft. It's a scrum, by the way, to the Lions, about 35 metres from their line. The first scrum collapses, but the Lions manage to win the second one, which is just as ugly. 65min Scrum to the Wallabies now, after a Lions knock on. Better scrum that from them. The backs run it through their hands, but the Lions stand up well. And then Hooper manages to make it though the gap. And Warburton is really struggling. He can hardly walk! Just as it looks as though Australia are about to do something dangerous Beale spills it. 63min AUSTRALIA 9-15 LIONS Superb from Halfpenny. He's kick creeps over. Only by inches. Meanwhile Sean O'Brien comes on for Heaslip at No 8. 62min What a scrum from the Lions! Magnificent. Two new men in the front row, and they creamed them in the first scrum. Well done Cole and Hibbard. Joubert lifts his arm and Halfpenny has a chance from just inside the Aussie half. 60min The Aussies win another line. And there was a sniff of obstuction by Palu, but the referee missed it. The Lions win it back though, after a knock on. And they run it left. The ball comes to North, and he lifts up Folau. That is incredible! He gave him a fireman's lift! But he has heard himself. That has lifted the crowd, though. It's scrum to the Lions now. Wholly bizarre. 59min And the Lions are whistled at the shortened line, with Parling jumping across. Meanwhile Dan Cole is on for Adam Jones, who has run out of steam. 57min Another woeful scrum, but a desparing Joubert lets Australia have it. They go right. But it's disjointed, and Murray is able to hack clear again. Bowe is haring after it, but it drifts into touch. 30 metres from the Aussie line. 56min The Lions win the lineout and look to set a rolling maul. And Murray has to box kick. Bowe puts pressure on again. But Beale gathers well. Ashley-Cooper slips, luckily for the Lions. And it's knocked on now by Murray. His first error after an excellent start. Tom Youngs takes a knock and he is off, for Richard Hibbard who was stripped any way. Let's hope his throwing is on the money. 55min Great start from Murray! He wins a ball at the breakdown, on his own 22. He turns over Ben Mowen and goes a back flip, accidentally. Welcome to the game, sir! 54min Well done the Lions. They manage to heave the Wallabies back into touch from the lineout. And Conor Murray is on for Ben Youngs. A more sensible game needed, perhaps? 53min "There were two minutes of rugby that was from another planet," says Stuart Barnes, when the Aussies win a penalty on the halfway line as BOD transgresses at the breakdown. Good hit from Lydiate in there, too. 51min And it's an interception by Folau, form BOD's pass, and the gangly winger is just about scragged. The Wallabies are able to quickly go through the phases and the pressure builds again. But Douglas knocks on, Halfpenny kicks clear though, and it's advantage to them. 50min Sexton shunts the ball up the line and Tom Youngs throws to Adam Jones - did he mean that? 48min The scum has to be reset. Youngs is told to feed it, and the Wallabies get one against the head. Oh no. The Wallabies come right this time and Sam Warburton does brilliantly at the breakdown. He wins a penalty. That will release some of the pressure. Well done the captain. 46min Penalty against the Lions in the scrum now. O'Connor heads for the line. And the Wallabies win the line, at the tail, but Hooper dribbles it forward. Davies, quick as a flash boots it clear. It's caught, after one bounce, by Folau who is hit well by Davies. But the Wallabies have a penalty, and Genia goes quick. It's flashed left, and the Lions need to organise. It's another knock on, though. Lucky. Better from the Aussies. 44min Good wrap around by Sexton, but it's adjudged to have been obstruction. Scrum Aussies on their 10-metre line. 43min A tremendously messy scrum, which wheels, is deemed OK, somehow. Ben Youngs manages to poke the ball in and the Lions rumble forward. 42min A high ball from Sexton is now spilled by Beale. Great chase and pressure from Bowe. Scrum Lions 30 metres out. 41min Jonny Sexton kicks off the second half, and he goes right and long. Beale boots it into touch close to his 10 metres line. The Lions win the lineout, much better, and Jon Davies makes good yardage across the gainline. It comes left to North, but there is no space and FOUR bundle him into touch. It's not the firecracker that we had last week, so far. And a very tense affair. But so far it is the kickers who have done the business. Christian Leali'ifano has managed three from three. And Halfpenny has four from five. Interesting to note that 12 years ago, when the Lions were one Test up, they were 11-6 at the break. The wheels fell off that year, when Joe Roff's interception turned the momentum. There were early issues with the Lions scrum, when Ben Alexander was bettering Mako Vunipola. But the Lions pack have done well to change the tide. Joubert is refereeing the game in a way that is favourable to the northern hemisphere, says Will Greenwood. And Paul Wallace thinks that Vunipola is actually having a good game and being penalised unfairly. See here: And one Welshman is happy with, er, the Welsh Lions. The Lions have 40 minutes to win their first series in 16 years. And Heaslip is whipping the troops up in the changing room. 40min AUSTRALIA 9-12 LIONS Yes, the Lions go into the interval three points up at the break, and Halfpenny's trusty right boot swings. That's the last action of the half. 40min And it's a penalty to the Lions. Halfpenny steps up from 28 metres. 38min Almost half time now, and Jonathan Davies attempts a grubber, but it is weak. Good now from North, who we have not really seen in attack. He out-jumps the Aussies from Halfpenny's high kick. The Lions build a good attack as BOD finds Parling, who ships to Heaslip. 38min AUSTRALIA 9-9 LIONS Leali'ifano makes it three from three. 35min Folau manages to get some space but he is hauled down, and BOD flyhacks wildly. Luckily he does not connect to anything. And now Lydiate is waaaaay offside, so the Aussies have a penalty within range. 34min From the restart Ashley-Cooper is down. He looks dazed. On the replay he runs in to Vunipola's right elbow. I'm not surprised he's dazed. Straight through the middle from Halfpenny. They Lions ahead again now. 32min Better scrum from the Lions there. The Wallabies try to wheel it now. And they concede a penalty. The Lions pack have bounced back well there. This could be within Halfpenny's range. He's 42 metres out. 30min The Lions go long at the line again, and it's stolen by Douglas. Not a good start in the set piece. Parling should have done better. It's a penalty now to the Aussies as Warburton is on the wrong side. They go for the lineout. And win it at the back. But Australia make their fourth handling error as O'Connor fumbles a pass under little pressure. The Lions have made three, by the way. 29min Bit of handbags now between O'Connor and Tom Youngs. It comes as the Lions win a penalty as Tommy Bowe is blocked when a box kick goes up. It's just out of range for Halfpenny, and Sexton shuffles the ball down the right-hand line. 28min AUSTRALIA 6-6 LIONS He gobbles them up for breakfast. All square thanks to Halfpenny. 26min Good psychological win for the Lions in that scrum now, it's their penalty. Well done Mako. The Lions bench spring off their bums and clap as they know Halfpenny will have a shot at the posts. 25min Good gather and step from Sexton wins the Lions some good yards in the thick of it. And Vunipola, who is obviously struggling, knocks on. Scum to the Aussies just inside their half. 24min AUSTRALIA 6-3 LIONS Leali'ifano swings his right boot languidly and strokes the ball over. Meanwhile Sir Ian McGeechan says that Gatland should bring on Ryan Grant "halftime at the latest." Will he? 22min Oh no. And immediately the referee whistles for another Aussie penalty when the packs engage. Warren Gatland's gamble is looking as though it might not pay off. The 22-year-old Vunipola has only one international start before today, remember. 21min A kick goes up from the Lions now and left wing Joe Tomane makes good ground. It goes left now, and there is a knock on by second row Kane Douglas. Lucky for the Lions. He is down with a blood injury now. And while the teams take a breath Joubert has a word with Warbuton about Mako Vunipola's scrummaging. 19min It wheels again, but No 8 Wycliff Palu makes good yards from the base. A high kick goes up from O'Connor, which Halfpenny gathers well with the Wallabies after him. He wins a penalty just outside his 22. And Sexton fails to make touch, as Beale does amazingly well to scoop it from over the touchline. Wow. What skill. 18min Ben Youngs almost closes down James O'Connor who wellies the ball 40 metres from behind his line. Messy lineout from the Lions now, as Parling pats back at the tail. They have recovered it, though. And they head right. It's a knock on, after good pressure from Micheal Hooper. Scrum to the Wallabies, how will this go? Leali'ifano arrows it in. Worrying for Mako there, though. 15min Down it goes again. And it's a penalty to the Wallabies. "Number one, going down," says Joubert, pointing to Mako Vunipola. Here comes inside centre Christian Leali'ifano to try and get his country on the board. 14min Two messy scrums. And the Aussies manage to wheel the second one. They have a free kick, as Ben Youngs couldn't put it in. They call for another scrum, and it collapses again. They will reset. 12min Australia looking more ominous now. They are running through the phases left and right, but the Lions are holding well. Not making good ground Beale kicks to the right hand side, and Folau rises well. He beats North in the air but he knocks on seven metres out. A warning there for the tourists. Scrum to them. 11min Vunipola does really well to rip the ball at the restart. And Ashley-Cooper smashes in to Sexton, whose box kick is limp. Line to the Wallabies. 10min AUSTRALIA 0-3 LIONS Yes, first blood to the Lions. Halfpenny does not miss this time. 9min This time Warburton hands the ball to Halfpenny, as Joubert warns Horwill that he might have to go to his yellow card if his pack transgress much more. 7min Catch and drive. What a rolling maul. The Lions make 10 metres or more and the Wallabies have to pull it down. Penalty, but Warbuton does not point to the posts this time. He goes for the lineout again. Very bold. It's another catch and drive. BOD and Bowe are involved here, too. Australia hold firm, just. But it's pulled back for another penalty. 6min Scrum not to the Aussies on their own 10 metre line. It comes out to Israel Folau, and James Howill takes it on now. He's whistled for holding on. Another Lions penalty, just inside their own half. Sexton shunts it up the line. 5min Wow, the ball hits the bar. Halfpenny misses. Is lady luck going to be on the side of the Wallabies today? 3min Big Garryowen now from Jonny Sexton, caught well by Beale. And a huge hit by O'Driscoll on Adam Ashley-Cooper. Ooph. The under pressure Aussies hold on at the breakdown and it's a penalty for the Lions. From half way. Sam Warburton points to the posts. 1min And here we go. Kurtley Beale kicks us off. Great turn over straight away for the Lions in the Wallabies half. Brian O'Driscoll is able to dap a kick though and Beale laces clear. Good start for the Lions. The lineout is messy though and it's a Aussie line now. 11.04 Final words for the captains now. Nerve jangling stuff. 11.03 Anthem time now. Great sound. That roof being closed only makes it much louder. What an atmosphere. 11.01 Here come the teams. Prop Ben Alexander, winning his 50th cap for the Wallabies, leads out his side. That's after there is a huge roar as Sam Warburton and his team enter the fray. 10.57 The Lions are back in their changing room now, stripped off. They are pacing now, looking at each other, eyeball to eyeball. 10.55 Ten minutes away not. Reaching boiling point now. Time to grab that beer, coffee, or whatever your poison is. Get your growl on, like these guys: 10.50 The Lions are out on the pitch now, running through some phases. And yes, Genia's knee is most certainly strapped. I'm sure Dan Lydiate won't target that at all! The Welshman managed 15 tackles when he led the Lions to a 35-0 victory in the week. Here's Mick again. Hopefully the adrenaline will kick in soon! Pre-match under way. Been under way in the city for several hours. Not just the players who need stamina. He adds: "Genia knee strapped in warm-up. Moving ok but suggests carrying that knock from last week. 10.45 How cute is this? A Lions baby grow! Going to see if they have an adult one for Giles Mole. 10.42 Perhaps Campo wasn't fibbing about Will Genia's knee: 10.30 Telegraph Sport columnist Sir Ian McGeechan - the head coach when the Lions last won, 16 year ago - provides his team talk from that crucial Test here. Inspirational stuff. 10.25 Where are you watching / listening / tuning in to today's match? Let us know and send in a picture of you in your Lions gear. 10.22 Also here is the famous Battle of Ballymore, which happened in the second Test that series. Will we see fisticuffs today? 10.18 Telegraph Sport columnist Brian Moore is having his leg pulled by Wallabies legend David Campese, by my guess. And let's all remind ourselves how Campo handed the Lions their last win Down Under in 1989. Love the commentary: "This is the classic shocker. The unthinkable has happened. You don't pull on the green and gold jersey to pull out that sort of Mickey Mouse rugby. 10.10 That Ben Youngs is in the team means the he and Tom, the hooker, become the first brothers to start a Test for the Lions since 1993 when Scots Gavin and Scott Hastings did so against New Zealand. 10.05 We have 60 minutes to game time now. Exciting stuff. The Lions have made five changes from their victorious first Test starting XV. A third of the team! Two of those changes have been enforced by injury: Alex Corbisiero and Paul O'Connell were felled. And in come Mako Vunipola and Geoff Parling for them. Will the young English loosehead Vunipola prove too green at this level? We hope not. But he did give away a late penalty last week which Kurtley Beale should have kicked. And also in the XV come Dan Lydiate, the Welsh farmer-cum-blindside flanker, for Tom Croft. He will tackle everything. Then, in the backs, there is Ben Youngs art scrum-half who is preferred to Mike Phillips. And Tommy Bowe has astounded medics by recovering from his hand injury so quickly. It should have taken six to eight weeks to heal. He's been on the sidelines for about two weeks! He replaces Alex Cuthbert, who is unlucky after scoring a corker of a try last weekend. In fact Welshmen scored all 23 Lions points last weekend. George North and Cuthbert crossed for tries and Leigh Halfpenny nailed the remaining 13 with his right foot. 10.00 All Blacks and Harlquins fly-half Nick Evans wants the Wallabies to level the series today. As does former England winger (and the Premiership's leading try scorer) Mark Cueto, oddly: 09.55 And this is what Melbourne looks like today, where the sun has just sunk under the horizon. It's 18.55 over there, by the way. And we are just over an hour away from kick off now. 09.52 Our man in Melbourne, Mick Cleary, has just emailed in. He's feeling pumped, and enjoying the atmosphere. Big crowds as we left team hotel. Assume they weren't there to see media off. Great buzz right through city. 09.50 OK, time for some more serious stuff now. Sir Clive Woodward reckons that if Australia lose this game it could be curtains for their New Zealand-born coach Robbie Deans. He calls it a "seminal moment" for Australia and, slightly getting carried away with his metaphors, writes (in his Daily Mail column): This is Deans" last throw of the dice and there is no point getting fired if you don't at least fire your bullets first. 09.47 And it looks like princes William and Harry are in Melbourne for the game (nice jacket, Hazza): 09.43 My colleague Giles Mole is hiding his Lions top under his hoodie, and he's going to unleash it nearer kick-off time. Have you got your jersey on, too, or are you wearing something more, er, figure hugging like these boys? 09.39 Ben Richardson provides a players' eye view of the entrance to the stadium. 09.32 The roof will be closed at the Etihad Stadium, which means no variables like wind or rain to factor in for the kickers. Is that good news for the Lions? Leigh Halfpenny seems to slot them in from wherever, whatever. He has 27 out of 29 on this tour. And he could well better kicking coach Neil Jenkins's Lions Test record of 41 this series. The conditions will be better for the Aussie kickers, too, of course. And they need all the help they can get after last Saturday's shocker. If you want to kick like Halfpenny, by the way, see Jenkins's guide here. 9.28 And then there is the man who will be up against him: George North. The 21-year-old Welshman crossed last week and had another try chalked off. You would think that these two players will have a say in the outcome today. The man who discovered him as a teenager, Nigel Davies, tells Stuart James he is a bigger talent than Jonah Lomu, the famous All Black winger. George is as big as Lomu, but probably quicker. He is an amazing athlete because seldom do you get someone who is aerobically fit and also hugely powerful and quick. Here is a reminder of what Lomu did to England in the 1995 World Cup (Mike Catt, look away now): 9.25 Israel Folau scored a brace of tries on his debut last week, and the huge winger is a bit special. Alan Gaffney, the Waratahs backs coach, recalls when they realised they had a superstar on their hands in Gavin Mairs's aritcle. A ball was kicked and he chased it but looked certain to go into touch but with a miraculous act of skill, he not only retained the ball but somehow flicked it back to a player in support 15-metres infield. It is very hard to describe the incident but the level of skill required to do what he did was such that everybody at the training session, including the international players, stopped and applauded. It is a special moment from a special player. 9.20 And just in case you missed the first Test, or just want to scan the highlights again, check out this 13-minute video. Not a bad game, was it? John Smit, the Springbok captain whose side defeated the Lions four years ago, seemed to enjoy it: 9.15 Here's more required reading for you ahead of kick off: • "The Lions are playing an entire nation in serious need of a pick-me-up," writes Mick Cleary, and Will Genia is the ring master • Jonathan Liew provides an irreverent spotter's guide to today's Test • The breakdown is where the match will be won, and here is Brian Moore's excellent aritcle on that aspect of the game • Gavin Mairs reports that the Lions will gain a £2.3 million bonanza if they are victorious 9.00 Carpe diem. Sixteen years and a day. That's how long it is since the British and Irish Lions last tasted series victory, in King's Park, Durban. On that day it ended 18-15 to the tourists, with Neil Jenkins knocking over five penalties, and Jerry Guscott slotting a drop-goal. How significant will kicks be today? Jenkins is of course with the squad now and he believes that his kickers are "the best of the best" and will not be cowed by the occasion today. This is how it feels to win a Lions series (excuse the excited swearing): The losing stretch has been the longest in the most-famous rugby tourists' 125-year history. Today they can end the hoodoo. After last week's narrow 23-21 victory in Brisbane, which could quite easily have been a defeat if Kurtley Beale was wearing appropriate footwear, Warren Gatland's men have the chance to end the pain. And come 1pm, British time, we will know if they have heaved that gorilla of their backs - and I'm not talking about Wallabies captain James Horwill. Captain Sam Warburton, writing in today's Telegraph Sport, neatly summarises the gravity of this game. No doubt he'll have his Metallica on full blast right now, as he revealed last week. This is it then, the biggest game of my life, the opportunity to win the series and go down in history. Seize the day boys: that is what Brian O'Driscoll has been telling his younger teammates. The veteran of the 2001 tour, when the Lions were last Down Under and went in to the second Test 1-0 up, knows that this could be their best chance to succeed. Lose now and the momentum will be with the Wallabies, as was the case 12 years ago. Plenty of excellent content to sink your teeth into ahead of the match, which will kick off in just over two hours. Will Greenwood is expecting a brutal, "full-frontal attack" from the wounded Australians, and explains where the Lions can catch an edge: If you thought last week was brutal, look away now. Last man standing wins. Here are your teams for the second Test. Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 Israel Folau, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Christian Leali'ifano, 11 Joe Tomane, 10 James O'Connor, 9 Will Genia, 8 Wycliff Palu, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Ben Mowen, 5 James Horwill (captain), 4 Kane Douglas, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Benn Robinson. Replacements: 16 Saia Fainga'a, 17 James Slipper, 18 Sekope Kepu, 19 Rob Simmons, 20 Liam Gill, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Rob Horne, 23 Jesse Mogg. British and Irish Lions: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Brian O'Driscoll, 12 Jonathan Davies, 11 George North, 10 Jonny Sexton, 9 Ben Youngs, 1 Mako Vunipola, 2 Tom Youngs, 3 Adam Jones, 4 Alun Wyn Jones, 5 Geoff Parling, 6 Dan Lydiate, 7 Sam Warburton, 8 Jamie Heaslip. Replacements: 16 Richard Hibbard, 17 Ryan Grant, 18 Dan Cole, 19 Tom Croft, 20 Sean O'Brien, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Owen Farrell, 23 Alex Cuthbert. And today's referee will be South African Craig Joubert. He's from Durban, too. Is that symbolic? Let's say 'yes'.