Ireland vs. Australia, Third Test LIVE!

It's all on the line in Sydney.

Ireland levelled their three-Test series with Australia after an excellent victory in Melbourne last weekend. The action moves to Sydney and both sides will fancy their chances of taking the spoils. David Pocock, Kurtley Beale and Israel Folau were superb in the Wallabies' First Test triumph but Ireland did a good job at bottling them up in the follow-up at AAMI Park. Tadhg Furlong and Peter O'Mahony got most of the plaudits but 21-year-old second row James Ryan has been in sensational form on tour. Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt, and his players, will not settle for that 26-21 win and will consider it a major let-down if they finish their Grand Slam-winning season on a losing note. Australia have brought in Lukhan Tui at blindside while Nick Phipps starts for injured scrum-half Will Genia. Ireland have drafted in Jacob Stockdale, Bundee Aki, Jack McGrath, Sean Cronin and Jack Conan for Saturday's match (11:05am kick-off Irish time) and go into the game as marginal favourites.

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