LIVE: Bitter Bledisloe Cup foes resume hostilities

The victor of the Rugby Championship volition beryllium decided connected Saturday successful matches played 11,000km and 9 hours isolated successful Auckland and Durban.

Defending champion New Zealand volition look Australia astatine Eden Park aft the All Blacks won past week's lucifer betwixt the teams successful Melbourne successful contentious circumstances to clasp the Bledisloe Cup for a 20th consecutive twelvemonth and enactment atop the title table.

New Zealand apt volition request a bonus constituent triumph to person a accidental of retaining the trophy.

Later, satellite champion South Africa volition look Argentina astatine Kings Park and volition person the past changeable astatine winning the title.

New Zealand and South Africa are level connected 14 points atop the array but New Zealand has a flimsy vantage connected points differential.

Because the All Blacks and Springboks each won 1 of their 2 matches during the championship, points quality whitethorn yet determine the victor if some teams instrumentality 4 oregon 5 points from their last matches.

The All Blacks look to person the harder task.

While the Springboks bushed Argentina 36-20 past weekend, New Zealand needed a disputed past infinitesimal effort to bushed Australia 39-37, having fixed up a 31-13 pb midway done the 2nd half.

New Zealand hasn't mislaid a Test astatine Eden Park successful 28 years and hasn't mislaid to Australia astatine the Auckland stadium since 1986.

But this has been a twelvemonth of firsts: the All Blacks person sustained their archetypal ever Test nonaccomplishment to Ireland successful New Zealand and their archetypal bid nonaccomplishment astatine location to Ireland.

They past mislaid to Argentina successful New Zealand for the archetypal time.

So the infinitesimal seems ripe for Australia to interruption their Eden Park jinx and they volition beryllium much determined to bash truthful due to the fact that of the circumstances of past weekend's loss.

The Wallabies were successful beforehand 37-34 with a infinitesimal to play successful the lucifer erstwhile the All Blacks conceded a punishment from a fractured lineout drive.

The Australian players celebrated and five-eighth Bernard Foley prepared to footwear for interaction to acceptable up a lineout which could person been the past play of the match.

But French referee Mathieu Raynal felt Foley was taking excessively agelong to footwear the ball, warned him and past called him for clip wasting, awarding the All Blacks a scrum from which they scored the winning try.

The Wallabies were incensed that a triumph which mightiness person allowed them to retrieve the Bledisloe Cup aft 2 decades was snatched distant from them by a regularisation seldom enforced successful modern rugby.

Australia sought clarification of Raynal's ruling from World Rugby and manager Dave Rennie claims the satellite assemblage supported their presumption it was incorrect.

"We've decided to conscionable instrumentality that connected the chin and we're going to determination on," Rennie said.

"We sought a spot of clarity and we got that. It's not going to assistance america triumph connected the weekend."

The Wallabies inactive are apt to gully connected the ending of the Melbourne lucifer arsenic information to triumph successful Auckland.

"You look astatine the crippled and each the boys and everyone successful the situation is disappointed and we conscionable person to harness that and instrumentality that to New Zealand," vice skipper Allan Alaalatoa said.

"We person to got to beryllium objective with the mode we play."

New Zealand besides came distant from the Melbourne lucifer disgruntled with the actions of Wallabies fastener Darcy Swain which resulted successful a superior genu wounded to All Blacks centre Quinn Tupaea.

The All Blacks since person accepted the six lucifer suspension imposed connected Swain.

Saturday's lucifer is apt to beryllium lively arsenic a effect of those issues.

All Blacks manager Ian Foster, much diplomatically, said the rivalry betwixt the teams is "alive and good and kicking."

ALL BLACKS (15-1): Beauden Barrett, Will Jordan, Rieko Ioane, Jordie Barrett, Caleb Clarke, Richie Mo'unga, Aaron Smith, Ardie Savea, Dalton Papali'i, Akira Ioane, Sam Whitelock (c), Brodie Retallick, Tyrel Lomax, Codie Taylor, Ethan de Groot

Reserves: Samisoni Taukei'aho, Ofa Tu'ungafasi, Nepo Laulala, Tupou Vaa'i, Hoskins Sotutu, Finlay Christie, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Sevu Reece

WALLABIES (15-1): Andrew Kellaway, Tom Wright, Len Ikitau, Lalakai Foketi, Marika Koroibete, Bernard Foley, Jake Gordon, Harry Wilson, Pete Samu, Rob Valetini, Cadeyrn Neville, Jed Holloway, Allan Alaalatoa, Dave Porecki, James Slipper (c)

Reserves: Folau Fainga'a, Angus Bell, Pone Fa'amausili, Nick Frost, Fraser McReight, Nic White, Reece Hodge, Jordan Petaia