Farrell laments errors in disconnected Lions Argentina loss

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Head coach Andy Farrell says the British and Irish Lions must learn "a lot of lessons" from a "disconnected" performance in Fridays 28-24 loss to Argentina in Dublin as they prepare to embark on their Australian tour.

The Lions hopes for victory in their first game on Irish soil were dashed by a slick Pumas side, who scored breakaway tries through Ignacio Mendy, Tomas Albornoz and Santiago Cordero to secure a deserved first win over the hosts at the eighth attempt.

Farrells side travel on Saturday and must regroup in time for their tour opener against Western Force in Perth on 28 June.

"We made it a tough game," said Farrell, who was taking charge of his first Lions game.

"The first and appropriate thing to say is congratulations to Argentina, they thoroughly deserved to win. They capitalised very well on quite a few errors from us, so congratulations and Im sure thats a big moment in Argentinas history."

Bundee Aki and Tadhg Beirne scored tries for the Lions, who were also awarded a penalty try early in the second half, but it was not enough to beat the worlds fifth-ranked team.

"You can try and throw it all around and say we had plenty of opportunities and we should have done better, but the story of the game is we compounded too many errors and werent able to put the pace on the game that we wanted to because of that," added Farrell.

"We wont sugar-coat this. We need to be honest because if were not honest, how do we gain trust with each other?

"Losing hurts, especially in this jersey. We need to find the solutions pretty quickly and be honest with ourselves because some good has to come from this."

The Lions travelled to Portugal for a week-long training camp before facing Argentina, but when asked if the squad has not had enough time together, Farrell said he "wouldnt give that excuse".

"We need to be better than that. It is what it is," he added.

"The Lions players are good players coming together. We ask a lot of them and maybe we put too much pressure on the side because it certainly looked like we were a bit disconnected at times.

"Well review what we said we were going to own and we need to make sure we get something positive from that because its all about how we move forward."

The Lions begin their Australian tour against Western Force on 28 June

Given that Farrell was without the sizeable portion of his squad who contested domestic finals last weekend - Ronan Kelleher being the sole exception - Fridays game against the Pumas was a chance for some to stake an early claim for Test selection.

And when asked what positives he could draw from the defeat, Farrell said "some people will have done themselves proud" without singling out any players.

"Theyll be hurting for the team because theyre all team players," he added.

"Some players will be happy, others wont and will be dying to get another chance, but look we know where were at, were under way so we need to learn a lot of lessons from that."

The Lions fielded 14 debutants on Friday and a new captain in Maro Itoje, who described his first outing as skipper as a "spectacular occasion" before echoing Farrells downbeat comments about the performance.

"We gave ourselves numerous opportunities but we werent accurate enough at times and werent consistent enough in putting pressure under Argentina," said Itoje.

"As we improve our relationships and spend more time together in training and understanding each others triggers, itll come.

"There are no excuses. We should have been better today but as with other areas of the game, well learn and get better together."

British and Irish Lions: Marcus Smith; Tommy Freeman, Sione Tuipulotu, Bundee Aki, Duhan van der Merwe; Fin Smith, Alex Mitchell; Ellis Genge, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Finlay Bealham, Maro Itoje (capt), Tadhg Beirne, Tom Curry, Jac Morgan, Ben Earl.

Replacements: Ronan Kelleher, Pierre Schoeman, Tadhg Furlong, Scott Cummings, Henry Pollock, Tomos Williams, Elliot Daly, Mack Hansen.

Argentina: Santiago Carreras; Rodrigo Isgro, Lucio Cinti, Justo Piccardo, Ignacio Mendy; Tomas Albornoz, Gonzalo Garcia; Mayco Vivas, Julian Montoya (capt), Joel Sclavi, Franco Molina, Pedro Rubiolo, Pablo Matera, Juan Martin Gonzalez, Joaquin Oviedo

Replacements: Bautista Bernasconi, Boris Wenger, Francisco Coria Marchetti, Santiago Grondona, Joaquin Moro, Simon Benitez Cruz, Matias Moroni, Santiago Cordero

Sin-bin: Vivas 45

Referee: James Doleman (New Zealand)

Assistant referees: Nika Amashukeli (Georgia) and Andrea Piardi (Italy)

TMO: Eric Gauzins (France)