Lions/Australia: O'Driscoll worry for Lions

Lions coach Graham Henry saw four of his players ferried to hospital after the 35-14 second Test defeat against world champions Australia.

Henry is now sweating on the fitness of Brian O'Driscoll, Jonny Wilkinson, Rob Howley and Richard Hill ahead of next Saturday's winner-takes-all series showdown in Sydney.

Fly-half Wilkinson is the biggest concern after he was stretchered off during the second-half suffering from a leg injury.

Centre O'Driscoll required neck X-rays, flanker Hill suffered a bang on the head and scrum-half Howley took a blow in the ribs.

The quartet of setbacks added injury to insult after the Lions blew an 11-6 interval lead to collapse spectacularly.

Wallabies' wing Joe Roff touched down twice in seven minutes, while full-back Matt Burke also claimed a try, in addition to kicking six penalties and a conversion.

"Jonny has gone for checks on his lower left leg - we don't know at this stage if it is bruising or a break," said Lions' manager Donal Lenihan.

Wilkinson's speculative pass was intercepted by Roff just 27 seconds into the second-half, giving him a clear run to the line and putting the Lions on the back foot.

They never really recovered, subsiding to a record defeat against Australia and giving Henry a huge task in preparing his players for next week.

"We didn't get points on the board in the first-half, as we should have done," Henry said.

"If we had taken those opportunities, then it would have given us momentum."

Asked if Roff's interception try had been the game's turning point, Henry said: "Probably."

He continued: "That try gave them confidence, and when they have got confidence they are a very different side.

"We have got a huge challenge on our hands now, but we are looking forward to Sydney and doing the business. We have got the same challenge as Australia had after the first Test.

"We are obviously disappointed, but we will work on it to get it sorted.

"The biggest weakness was that we didn't take our opportunities in the first-half. We didn't look after the ball, there were too many 50-50 passes, and we have got to be more clinical."