‘We’ve got to be more clinical’ – British and Irish Lions captain Peter O’Mahony reacts to first Test defeat to New Zealand

The British and Irish Lions captain Peter O'Mahony was left to rue poor finishing after world champions New Zealand won a thrilling first Test 30-15 in Auckland.

MATCH REPORT: New Zealand 30-15 British and Irish Lions

The match was evenly poised at 13-8 to the All Blacks after Ireland flanker Sean O'Brien finished off a scintillating long-range move just before the break.

But the Lions otherwise lacked the killer touch. Promising breaks came to nothing and at the other end lapses in concentration were ruthlessly punished by the hosts, as Codie Taylor scored a first-half try before Rieko Ioane added two second-half touchdowns.

"We had an excellent first half and created plenty of chances," Lions captain Peter O'Mahony said following the game.

"We're happy with some of the opportunities we created but our discipline probably wasn't where it should have been at.

"We played some great rugby. We’re playing against the All Blacks and they’re the best team in the world, so we’re going to be put under pressure.

"But we've got to be more clinical. We’ve got to put ourselves under pressure to finish off the opportunities we’re creating.

"We left at least two tries out there so I don't think 15 points is a good reflection.

"We’ll get there. We’ll take a huge amount of confidence from the game. We’ll just battle on and move on to next week. We've got a huge Test coming up next week and we've got to recover now and regroup."

Centre Jonathan Davies agreed with his team-mate, adding: "Poor discipline and errors probably cost us and to be fair to the All Blacks they were very clinical as always.

"But we can take a lot out of our game. We created a lot, it's just finishing off these opportunities. We can't leave tries out there.

"The positives are we're creating chances, we just need to finish them off."

Listen to post-match reaction from Peter O'Mahony and Jonathan Davies IN FULL above!