Lions need to find solutions quickly: Farrell

Coach Andy Farrell had hoped for a tough rugby game against Argentina before the British and Irish Lions boarded their flight for Australia, and said his gelling squad had no excuses after getting more than they bargained for in a 28-24 defeat.

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"We made it a tough game," a forthright Farrell said on June 20, when asked if he got the kind of stern test he wanted and that the group's limited time together was no kind of mitigating factor.

"I wouldn't give that excuse. We need to be better than that. They're Lions players."

While he said he was pleased with the Lions' aggressive scrummaging, the list of areas to improve was long - a "clunky" attack, breakdown, misfiring line-out, kicking game, throwing balls blindly away and battles in the air and on the ground.

"It's too much, it's too much when it all comes together... The whole story of the game is that we compounded too many errors and in the end we weren't able to put the pace on the game that we wanted to because of that," Farrell added.