Andy Farrell<\/a>, while those who did not make it played for an Ireland team coached by Paul O\u2019Connell, who comfortably beat Georgia and Portugal. Before that, you have to go back to the Six Nations for competitive Irish matches, where Ireland finished third behind England and France. <\/p>\nNew Zealand, meanwhile, have played nine matches since the summer, easily beating a weakened French touring side in July, before finishing second in the Rugby Championship with four wins and two defeats, soured by a record 43-10 defeat to South Africa.<\/p>\n
The upcoming internationals are important for the rugby world rankings as it is the last chance to get points before the seeding for the 2027 Rugby World Cup. Ireland are currently third and would like to be in the top four for top seeding, with France and England lurking in fourth and fifth. A couple of defeats in the autumn internationals here could be detrimental a few years down the line.<\/p>\n
What is the team news?<\/b><\/p>\n
The main blow for Ireland is that Mack Hansen has not make the trip after a foot injury sustained while playing for Connacht against Bulls in the URC. Munster centre Tom Farrell and Leinster back Jimmy O\u2019Brien have been added to the squad as injury cover. Ireland captain Caelan Doris has not been ruled out of making a return against the All Blacks. Doris, who underwent shoulder surgery last May, has not played since and missed out on the Lions tour to Australia.<\/p>\n
Tupuo Vaa\u2019i, who requires knee surgery, and prop Tyrel Lomax, who has a broken are New Zealand\u2019s main injury absences.<\/p>\n
The starting line-ups will be updated when they are made available on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ireland squad:<\/b><\/p>\n
Forwards: <\/b>Tom Ahern (Munster), Ryan Baird (Leinster), Finlay Bealham (Connacht), Tadhg Beirne (Munster), Jack Boyle (Leinster), Thomas Clarkson (Leinster), Jack Conan (Leinster), Caelan Doris (capt) (Leinster), Tadhg Furlong (Leinster), Iain Henderson (Ulster), R\u00f3nan Kelleher (Leinster), Gus McCarthy (Leinster), Paddy McCarthy (Leinster), Andrew Porter (Leinster), Cian Prendergast (Connacht), James Ryan (Leinster), Dan Sheehan (Leinster), Nick Timoney (Ulster), Josh van der Flier (Leinster).<\/p>\n
Backs: <\/b>Bundee Aki (Connacht), Caolin Blade (Connacht), Craig Casey (Munster), Jack Crowley (Munster), Ciar\u00e1n Frawley (Leinster), Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster), Jimmy O\u2019Brien (Leinster), Tom Farrell (Munster), Robbie Henshaw (Leinster), James Lowe (Leinster), Shayne Bolton (Connacht), Stuart McCloskey (Ulster), Tommy O\u2019Brien (Leinster), Jamie Osborne (Leinster), Sam Prendergast (Leinster), Garry Ringrose (Leinster), Jacob Stockdale (Ulster).<\/p>\n
New Zealand squad:<\/b><\/p>\n
Forwards \u2013<\/b> Codie Taylor, Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho, George Bell, Ethan de Groot, Tamaiti Williams, George Bower, Fletcher Newell, Pasilio Tosi, Tevita Mafileo, Scott Barrett (captain), Patrick Tuipulotu, Fabian Holland, Josh Lord, Samipeni Finau, Simon Parker, Ardie Savea, Du\u2019Plessis Kirifi, Wallace Sititi, Peter Lakai, Luke Jacobson.<\/p>\n
Backs \u2013 <\/b>Cortez Ratima, Cam Roigard, Finlay Christie, Beauden Barrett, Damian McKenzie, Anton Lienert-Brown, Jordie Barrett, Quinn Tupaea, Billy Proctor, Leicester Fainga\u2019anuku, Rieko Ioane, Caleb Clarke, Sevu Reece, Leroy Carter, Will Jordan, Ruben Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is playing, when and where? Ireland are playing New Zealand at Soldier Field in Chicago in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[34133,70904,75579,53479,18,19,17,34132,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-148265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-all-blacks","9":"tag-andy-farrell","10":"tag-autumn-nations-series","11":"tag-caelan-doris","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-ireland-rugby","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115447690936025815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ireland’s Billy Holland, Donnacha Ryan, Simon Zebo, Conor Murray and CJ Stander celebrate winning. Photograph: Dan Sheridan\/Inpho What has the form been like for both teams, and what is at stake?<\/b><\/p>\n