24 Nov 2024

All Blacks v Italy: Recap

11:25 am on 24 November 2024
All Black Will Jordan attempts to evade Ross Vintcent of Italy during All Blacks v Italy.

All Black Will Jordan attempts to evade Ross Vintcent of Italy during All Blacks v Italy. Photo: Bob Martin/ActionPress

The All Blacks have finished their last test of the season with a messy win, 29:11 over Italy.

They went into Sunday's game as overwhelming favourites, thanks to a very strong team named by Scott Robertson. However, the weather in Turin was very cold, with a chance of snow, and there was speculation that could affect their play.

The start saw plenty of penalties blown by the ABs, which set the tone for a dour, underwhelming run through the rest of the game.

Kick-off was at 9.10am (NZT).

Team lists

All Blacks: 1. Ethan de Groot 2. Codie Taylor 3. Tyrel Lomax 4. Scott Barrett (c) 5. Patrick Tuipulotu 6. Wallace Sititi 7. Sam Cane 8. Ardie Savea 9. Cam Roigard 10. Beauden Barrett 11. Caleb Clarke 12. Anton Lienert-Brown 13. Rieko Ioane 14. Mark Tele'a 15. Will Jordan

Bench: 16. Asafo Aumua 17. Ofa Tu'ungafasi 18. Fletcher Newell 19. Tupou Vaa'i 20. Peter Lakai 21. TJ Perenara 22. David Havili 23. Damian McKenzie

Italy: 1. Danilo Fischetti 2. Gianmarco Lucchesi 3. Marco Riccioni 4. Federico Ruzza 5. Dino Lamb 6. Sebastian Negri 7. Manuel Zuliani 8. Ross Vintcent 9. Martin Page-Relo 10. Paolo Garbisi 11. Monty Ioane 12. Tommaso Menoncello 13. Juan Ignacio Brex (c) 14. Jacopo Trulla 15. Ange Capuozzo

Bench: 16 Giacomo Nicotera, 17 Mirco Spagnolo 18 Simone Ferrari, 19 Niccolò Cannone, 20 Alessandro Izekor, 21 Alessandro Garbisi, 22 Leonardo Marin 23 Marco Zanon

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