Wales produced an historic and heroic five-try display to defeat the All Blacks 35-28 at the Principality Stadium on Saturday.
Tries from Tomas Williams, Dewi Lake, Archie Griffin, Eddie James and Louis Rees-Zammit gave Wales the lead before a monumental defensive effort kept New Zealand out late on.
Dragons duo Dillon Lewis and Ben Carter both came off the bench to play a huge part in the Welsh defence who ultimately made nearly 350 tackles over the course of the match.
Wales started on fire with a break and chip down the wing from Rees-Zammit, dotted down by Williams for the opening score inside two minutes.
A couple of minutes later and Wales had their second converted score as Dewi Lake went over from short range.
New Zealand responded as expected with scrumhalf Cortez Ratima crossing from the back of the maul for the third try in the opening 10 minutes.
However, Wales hit back again through their front row as Griffin plunged over following a good miss pass from Williams.
The All Blacks equalled the scores before half-time as Wallace Sititi and wing Fehi Fineanganofo scored with Richie Mo’unga converting to make it 21-21 at the break.
Wales started the second half in the same vein as the first with James and Rees-Zammit both crossing from Williams passes to score in either corner.
Sam Costelow continued his perfect kicking with his fifth conversion to make the score 35-21 to Wales with half and hour to go.
New Zealand came on strong in the final 30 minutes with Peter Lakai scoring to reduce the home side’s lead to seven.
However, Wales clung on, holding up the All Blacks on three separate occasions to secure end their 73-year wait against New Zealand.
Wales: Blair Murray; Louis Rees-Zammit, Eddie James, Max Llewellyn, Gabriel Hamer-Webb; Sam Costelow, Tomos Williams; Nicky Smith, Dewi Lake (c), Archie Griffin, Dafydd Jenkins, Adam Beard, James Botham, Jac Morgan, Taine Basham.
Replacements: Ryan Elias, Gareth Thomas, Dillon Lewis, Ben Carter, Taine Plumtree, Reuben Morgan-Williams, Dan Edwards, Louie Hennessey.
