The Lions can win next week and take the series

There has been criticism that the Lions played badly last week; they didn’t. If they can solve their discipline problem, they may well emerge victorious

Conor Murray scores the Lions’second try of yesterday’s test match against the All Blacks Picture: Inpho

The Lions could win this series. At the end of the day, rugby is 50 per cent a mental struggle and they’ve beaten New Zealand now. If you’ve done it once, you can do it again.

The Lions will now go into next weeks’ decider in an entirely different frame of mind. That’s the difference between having played them and never beaten them, and having played them and beaten the All Blacks. Suddenly ...