| Venue: Parc Olympique Lyonnais Date: Friday, 29 September Kick-off: 20:00 BST |
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Sam Whitelock may come off the bench on the Rugby World Cup on Friday evening in opposition to Italy to turn into New Zealand’s most capped participant of all time.
The second row, 34, is stage with former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw on 148 caps.
Whitelock would additionally equal the World Cup appearances report if he got here on.
Whitelock’s look in the 71-3 win in opposition to Namibia was his twenty first in World Cups, one behind McCaw and former England worldwide Jason Leonard.
New Zealand head coach Ian Foster stated: “He equalled a report final week, he’ll beat it this week. He is obtained 150 [caps] arising after which he is obtained the most-capped All Black in World Cups. Day by day is a little bit of an announcement of one thing he is reaching.
“We wish to honour that achievement as a result of he is earned that however I really feel like as a staff, we talked quite a bit about it final week earlier than the Namibia sport, we respect that however we’ll do all our celebration of that achievement after this sport.
“Proper now what the staff wants to realize is larger than the person.”
Foster has made 9 modifications to his beginning XV to face Italy, with solely Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Nepo Laulala, Brodie Retallick, Dalton Papali’i, Ardie Savea and Beauden Barrett retaining their locations from the victory over the African nation.
New Zealand, who misplaced their opening Pool A match to France, have by no means didn’t make it out of the group levels at a World Cup and are searching for a victory which might make them strongly favoured to achieve the final eight.
Italy will attain the knockout part for the primary time in the event that they beat New Zealand, or if the sport ends in a draw and Italy earn a bonus level however the All Blacks don’t.
Coach Kieran Crowley has made three modifications to the Italian matchday 23 from the facet which beat Uruguay 38-17 final Thursday.
Dino Lamb, Stephen Varney and Luca Morisi come into the beginning XV as Niccolo Cannone strikes to the bench and Alessandro Garbisi and Lorenzo Pani drop out of the squad.
Tommaso Allan returns to full-back after beginning at fly-half final week, whereas Paolo Garbisi strikes from the centres to fly-half.
Allan has not missed a shot at purpose at this World Cup, kicking all 13 makes an attempt. He requires 5 extra factors to surpass Diego Dominguez as Italy’s all-time main Rugby World Cup factors scorer.
Line-ups
New Zealand XV: Beauden Barrett; Will Jordan, Rieko Ioane, Jordie Barrett, Mark Telea; Richie Mo’unga, Aaron Smith; Ofa Tuungafasi, Codie Taylor, Nepo Laulala, Brodie Retallick, Scott Barrett, Shannon Frizell, Dalton Papali’i, Ardie Savea
Replacements: Dane Coles, Tamaiti Williams, Tyrel Lomax, Samuel Whitelock, Sam Cane, Cam Roigard, Damian McKenzie, Anton Lienert-Brown
Italy XV: Tommaso Allan; Ange Capuozzo, Juan Ignacio Brex, Luca Morisi, Montanna Ioane; Paolo Garbisi, Stephen Varney; Danilo Fischetti, Giacomo Nicotera, Marco Riccioni, Dino Lamb, Federico Ruzza, Sebastian Negri, Michele Lamaro, Lorenzo Cannone
Replacements: Hame Faiva, Ivan Nemer, Simone Ferrari, Niccolo Cannone, Manuel Zuliani, Toa Halafihi, Martin Web page-Relo, Paolo Odogwu
Match officers
Referee: Matthew Carley (England)
Contact judges: Nic Berry, Christophe Ridley
TMO: Brett Cronan