Scots Believe They Can Beat All Blacks After Routing Us In Record Win

Scotland's players now judge they tin hit New Zealand for nan first clip ever, says caput coach Gregor Townsend, aft his broadside started their autumn run pinch a grounds triumph complete nan United States.

Darcy Graham and Jamie Dobie some scored hat-tricks arsenic nan Scots ran successful 13 tries to rustle distant nan Americans 85-0 successful what was their biggest ever triumph successful 100 years of playing astatine Murrayfield.

Now attraction turns to Saturday's showdown pinch nan All Blacks successful Edinburgh, pinch Scotland aiming to grounds a first triumph successful nan fixture astatine nan 33rd attempt.

The Scots mislaid by 8 points successful 2022, 5 successful 2017, and 8 again 3 years earlier that.

"It's a immense match. This crippled has been sold retired for a while. Everyone loves watching nan All Blacks," Townsend told BBC Scotland.

"We've had 2 cracking matches against them [in caller years], but not delivered that winning performance. All these experiences, coming included, person to beryllium put into an 80-minute performance.

"The players tin return assurance from really good they've trained this week. We person to build that cohesion beautiful quickly. There's nary logic why we can't. The guys will beryllium up for it and person nan belief they tin do it."

With nan USA lucifer falling extracurricular nan designated Test window, Scotland were without cardinal players specified arsenic Finn Russell, Blair Kinghorn and Ben White, but were ruthless successful nan manner they dismantled their opponents.

Darcy Graham and Jamie Dobie some scored hat-tricks and Duhan Van der Merwe helped himself to 2 tries connected his 50th cap. Dylan Richardson, Kyle Rowe, Stafford McDowall, George Horne, and Ollie Smith besides scored.

"Straight away, nan players were very cohesive, which is difficult to execute successful a week's training," Townsend said.

"We asked for effort and physicality and we sewage that for astir of nan game. We were fierce and disciplined successful nan main and nan players worked difficult for each other.

"We cognize adjacent week will beryllium a overmuch bigger situation and nan squad will beryllium much-changed too."