New Zealand might be under pressure, but they are still ranked second in the world and were only pipped to the Rugby Championship title by South Africa on points difference.<\/p>\n
Plenty of supposedly non-vintage All Blacks sides have come to Cardiff amid chat of “lost aura” only to go on to ease to victory.<\/p>\n
“I grew up watching the 2011 to 2015 team, who were the best in the world, and you put them on a pedestal,” said Jenkins, who is set to face New Zealand for the first time.<\/p>\n
“You definitely have that respect for them, but we are looking forward to giving it a crack, it’s a huge opportunity to cause a real upset.<\/p>\n
“It’s a game of rugby and anything can happen, but New Zealand are a quality team and you are not going to beat them unless you are 100% on your game. Switch off for a second and you will be under your sticks.<\/p>\n
“Coming off losing to England, they are going to be ramped up. We know that, but it’s exciting and we have got nothing to lose.”<\/p>\n
Both teams are set to be named on Thursday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand might be under pressure, but they are still ranked second in the world and were only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-580076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}