A knee injury to full-back Blair Kinghorn will be the only medical issue from a game which saw some excellent passages of attacking play but the concession of four tries to Stephen Larkham’s Super Rugby semi-finalists, albeit a side missing eight of their frontline Wallabies. The sight of a resolute Brumbies defence holding up three Lions tries over the line confirms Farrell’s assessment, as did another sloppy opening period in which the hosts scored first after four minutes. Yet the boss painted a positive picture to complement the singsong in the visitors’ dressing room at GIO Stadium. “It is great to get another win and get some more learnings under our belt,” Farrell said. “It is coming thick and fast but we will get to have another taste of what that looks like on Saturday, it is nice to get another go at it on Saturday. “Overall, bigger picture stuff, I thought we dominated the game. If you got the game and fast forwarded through it you would see that and on the back of that we scored some lovely balanced tries. But the other side of the story is, we certainly left three out there and maybe more being held up over the line and kept the Brumbies in the game. They were good enough to be able to capitalise on some of our errors and discipline to score some points themselves. Plenty to do obviously.” Declaring the outcome and the performance “a step forward”, having picked his strongest starting line-up of the tour to date, Farrell nevertheless confirmed there were still unresolved Test selection questions. “Yes 100 per cent. I wasn’t joking. People like to decide in their own mind my own thoughts in regards to what selection looks like, but it was the truth. We look forward to Saturday. “We are in a good place in the sense that we are doing well in certain aspects of the game and in fits and starts. But we need to improve in all areas. We can see that surely winning and seeing where those improvements are is a good place to be for the next 10 days.” The Lions continued to concentrate on ball in hand, expansive rugby rather than use their power to knock down the front door as they are expected to do when the Test series rolls around. Although Ireland centres Bundee Aki and Garry Ringrose were noticeably more direct in possession than their rival Scottish duo Sione Tuipulotu and Huw Jones had been in the previous game last Saturday against the Waratahs. It led to Farrell being asked how much the Lions were holding back tactically “The same amount as Australia,” the head coach said. “Probably quite a bit.” If there is an issue outside of his control, Farrell suggested it may be with the referees’ handling of the breakdown. The Brumbies continued the Australian trend on this tour of applying serious pressure on the contact zone and the Lions’ penalty count was in double figures at 11. “Historically, Australia have always gone hard at the breakdown and anyone analyses the way we have been playing, that is what you would do,” he said. “The pressure at the breakdown is no surprise to us. Sometimes it is a mess, we have got to make sure we keep asking for clarity as far as that is concerned because we don’t want the game managed. But first things first, we need to look after our own ruck.” Lions captain Maro Itoje added: “We just need to be a little bit more accurate. We need to remove the contest from the referee or the Brumbies or whoever the opposition is so that's an area of the game that we'll continue to get better at. And the same thing with the restarts, it's just an area of the game that we'll get better at. “We're comfortable. It's a hotly contested area and naturally I'm sure if you were in the Brumbies camp they'll feel a little bit aggrieved about some of the decisions as well. It's rugby. The breakdown is part of one of the big contest areas of our game and it's an area that I think because of the way we attack, they're going for it.” As for Kinghorn, who injured his knee in the seventh minute and was eventually removed in the 25th, Farrell said: “He is in good spirits. You wouldn’t know with Blair, he is always in good spirits anyway. He got a bang on the knee, he carried on for quite a bit but there was no need to keep him going. “He is on the bed now, singing away. There is a bit of music there and he is singing away as he is being assessed so we will see how he comes through that. It is late, we have got an early flight in the morning and I don’t know what the medical plan is but we will get on top of that.”