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Matt Burke of the Sydney Morning Herald believes that Australia can upset the odds and defeat New Zealand in their Rugby World Cup semi-final showdown on Sunday.
"Don't you just love how quickly historians can dredge up a stat or a figure about something that really has no relevance to this week's game?
"We have seen the 'Eden Park hoodoo' raise its head again. Forget it. Here is the real stat: through all of the Rugby World Cups, the Wallabies have never lost to a southern hemisphere team in the knockout stages.
"Perhaps there have been only a few occasions on which they have met, but it's a start.
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"But I think we could come up with something else that will convince us that the Wallabies are going to advance to the final after Sunday's game."
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