Match Day Programme: New Zealand v Namibia

New Zealand are currently on a two game losing streak, after suffering crushing defeats to the Springboks in a world cup warm-up game and to hosts France on opening day. The All Blacks will face a spirited Namibia side that looked good against Italy in their opener. With France overcoming a resilient Uruguay side last night, although not likely, Nambia will look to try and replicate the South Americans' performance against the three time world champions. Thank you for joining us, this is Ultimate Rugby Match Day, Rugby World cup edition.

Fixture: New Zealand vs. Namibia

Venue: Stadium deToulouse Toulouse, France

Kickoff Time: 20:05 (GMT)

Referee: Luke Pearce 

Head-to-head Played:

Played: 2

New Zealand: 2

Namibia Wins: 0

Draws: 0

Rugby World Cup Head-to-Head 

Played: 2

New Zealand Wins: 2

Nambia: 0

Draws: 0

Points for:

New Zealand: 129

Namibia: 23

Biggest winning margin:

New Zealand: 62 (06 October 2019)

Last Meeting:  06 October 2019 – New Zealand 71-9 Namibia- Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.

World Cup Fixtures

Namibia

­vs. New Zealand

vs. France

vs. Uruguay

New Zealand

vs. Namibia

vs. Italy

vs. Uruguay

Referee: Luke Pearce

Debut as Referee: 2013

Tests as Referee: 46

RWC Games as Referee: 3

This will be the second time he has refereed a test featuring Namibia, after overseeing their warm-up match against Uruguay last month.

Team News:

New Zealand: Head coach Ian Foster has made nine changes in his starting line-up from their opening round loss to France with Nepo Laulala, Sam Whitelock, Dalton Papali’i, Ardie Savea, Beauden Barrett and Anton Lienert-Brown retaining their places. There are nine survivors in the match-day team from the side that defeated Namibia 71-9 at RWC 2019. 

Namibia: There are nine survivors in the match-day team from the side that defeated Namibia 71-9 at RWC 2019. There are eight survivors in the match-day team from the last time Namibia played New Zealand at RWC 2019, with Johan Coetzee, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Tjiuee Uanivi, Johan Retief, Prince Gaoseb, Damian Stevens, JC Greyling and captain Johan Deysel all named.