LIVE: Spine-tingling haka precedes crunch clash

Australian skipper James Tedesco says New Zealand's sub-par show against Fiji successful the quarter-finals was nary indicator for today's clash, and that the Kangaroos are expecting their arch-rivals to beryllium firing connected each cylinders. 

"They were astir apt looking to this crippled alternatively of focusing connected that game, and they weren't astatine their best, but I cognize 100 per cent they'll beryllium acceptable to spell this week," Tedesco told reporters.

"We're expecting them to travel retired and beryllium astatine their best, for sure.

"It's going to beryllium decidedly our hardest situation truthful acold and it's going to beryllium an 80-minute crippled for us."

Australia travel into the contention arsenic dense favourites, contempt the Kiwis being galore people's prime to triumph the tournament.