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Published 11:00 9 Nov 2021 GMT
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Ireland captain Johnny Sexton, left, lines up alongside his team before the Autumn Nations Series match against Japan at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. (Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"That’s how we have been trying to play for the last year but we have had some lessons along the way and we have had to do something a bit different. It does take time to bed in. "With international rugby you never get a long period to work on it. With Leinster you’ve got a full year together, with Ireland you might have four sessions and you can’t training every day obviously. "If you had seen us last Thursday, we were… not a mess but we were back together for the first time and it is testament to the coaching staff that they hit us with the right amount of information each day to make sure that come this week we were ready to go."[caption id="attachment_207055" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Johnny Sexton of Ireland celebrates late in the 2018 match against New Zealand at the Aviva Stadium. (Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"I don’t think you would ever say you are really confident about beating the All Blacks because you need to get away from thinking about the result. You need to go and look after the process and bring out your very best performance and that will give you a chance. If you don’t do that you have no chance so will do our analysis on them. "They have some really dangerous players and a very good coaching team. They have had some great results of late and we will give them all the attention they deserve but we have to focus on making sure we give our best version of ourselves next Saturday."Saturday will be a perfect test for whether Ireland are on the right path under the leadership of Farrell and Sexton. They will be hoping to make the rugby world once again sit forward and take notice. WATCH THE LATEST HOUSE OF RUGBY HERE:
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