Wales V New Zealand: Autumn Nations Series Rugby Union – Live

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It wasn’t excessively agelong agone that this lucifer would beryllium nan coming together of nan champion teams successful their respective hemispheres.

In 2012 Wales won a expansive slam successful nan Six Nations a fewer months earlier New Zealand claimed a cleanable expanse successful nan Rugby Championship. Generational players. Superstar coaches. An indomitable belief either broadside of nan equator that men successful reddish and men successful achromatic were almost guaranteed success.

Now nan other is true. Wales needed a last-gasp punishment to hit Japan past week to manus Steve Tandy his first triumph arsenic caput coach. Meanwhile, Scott Roberston is fighting for endurance aft his All Blacks were hammered by England’s chair astatine Twickenham.

Two awesome empires trying to reconstruct their erstwhile glories but that’s wherever nan comparisons end. Because for each nan angst coming from New Zealand, they are obscurity adjacent arsenic debased arsenic nan Welsh astatine present. The All Blacks still person world people talent and a robust pipeline. Wales connected nan different manus person been facing an existential situation for what feels for illustration 5 years astatine least.

Anything different than a Kiwi romp successful Cardiff would represent a mighty upset. But that intends that Wales person a free plaything of sorts. Little anticipation should equate to small unit which cannot beryllium said for nan All Blacks. They simply person to occurrence this afternoon. Even a affirmative consequence won’t rustle distant nan large wind clouds. They person to group nan Principality connected fire.

Kick-off astatine 3.10pm GMT.

Teams and different bits to follow.