The All Whites have one shot to be the 32nd - and final team - to qualify for this year's Football World Cup. If they qualify, they'll join Australia, who sneaked in this morning, after a penalty shootout against Peru.
A win in tomorrow morning's intercontinental playoff game against Costa Rica in Qatar will send the All Whites to football's showpiece event for just the third time.
The qualification process was impacted by the pandemic, meaning for the first time in 40 years the All Whites have only one game, rather than two, to seal their fate - and a $16.5 million payday.
Felicity Reid reports,
