Namibia attack coach Mark Jones: "It's a great experience. You may never get an opportunity to tread on a field at a World Cup, let alone against the number one team in the world.

"We can't leave anything in the changing rooms. We've got to respect them for what they've done but we can't stand back.

"We've got to get into their faces as quickly as we can because the game will be gone if we don't."

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Namibia and New Zealand met at the 2015 World Cup with the All Blacks winning 58-14 in London.

Centre Johan Deysel said scoring Namibia's try in that game was the "best moment" of his career and admitted he feels both nerves and excitement about playing the All Blacks again.

"You are playing the best team in the world and have to rock up and face the Haka and have a big crowd around you," Deysel, now Namibia captain, said.

"What an opportunity it is for us - coming from a small country to play the best in the world.

"You always dream about it as a young boy. You see it on TV and can just imagine standing in front of them."

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New Zealand coach Steve Hansen has no qualms over picking Jordie Barrett at fly-half today.

"He has played there before at a lower level," said Hansen.

"He has got the skill-sets we believe to be able to run the game and the confidence and the skill-set to be able to execute as well as run it.

"We're reasonably confident he will be fine."

Utility back Jordie Barrett has been shifted from the wing to fly-half to face Namibia, and New Zealand assistant Ian Foster is confident he will "run the roost" - despite never having started at 10 in an international Test or Super Rugby.

"Our expectations are that Jordie just goes out and runs the team like any 10 does," said Foster.

"He's really clear about what we're doing - he started last week and I thought he had a great game so he's very clear how we play and what we're doing.

"Now he's got a slightly different role but nothing really changes. He's just got to use his mouth a bit more and he'll be fine. He's got a couple of chatterboxes inside and outside him too, so he won't be short of vocals.

"It isn't as if we've had a major programme with him behind the scenes for weeks and weeks. We had a training run yesterday, we let him run the roost for a while, he did a pretty good job. Then we had a couple of chats and that was about it."

Two-time defending champions New Zealand make 12 changes, including resting both Richie Mo'unga and Beauden Barrett.

New Zealand: Smith, Reece, Goodhue, Lienert-Brown, Bridge; J Barrett, Smith; Moody, Taylor, Laulala, Retallick, Whitelock, Frizell, Cane, Savea.

Replacements: Coles, Tuungafasi, Ta'avao, Tuipulotu, Todd, Weber, Perenara, Ioane.

Namibia captain and centre Johan Deysel makes his first start of the tournament following injury in one of nine changes from their 57-3 defeat by South Africa.

Namibia: Tromp, Klim, Newman, Deysel, Greyling; Kisting, Stevens; Rademeyer, Van Jaarsveld, De Klerk, Van Lill, Uanivi, Gaoseb, Forbes, Venter.

Replacements: Nortje, Theron, Coetzee, Retief, Booysen, Jantjies, De La Harpe, Du Toit

He might be one of the best second rows in the world, but Brodie Retallick admits he is "nervous" about making his comeback from injury against Namibia.

"I obviously want to push my case moving into the tournament by getting some game time," said Retallick.

"Although you can do a lot of running, which we have been doing, nothing compares to match fitness."

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Big news for the All Blacks as second-row phenomenon Brodie Retallick gears up to make his comeback from injury earlier than expected.

Retallick, regarded as one of the world's best locks, has been out since dislocating his shoulder in July.

"It's exciting to have the big fella back," said coach Steve Hansen.

"You go back to the night it happened and there was a bit of despair. Then we found out it wasn't one of those dislocations that would require an operation and there was more hope.

"As he has trained he has got better and the guys have got more excited, none more so than the coach."

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It's the back-to-back champions, the world number ones, the favourites - against the lowest-ranked team in the competition.

Is this the impossible job for Namibia?

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