Italy coach John Kirwan claimed the World Cup had been made “unfair” by an imbalanced draw that will favour Wales in Saturday’s crunch Pool D clash.
With New Zealand expected to win the group unbeaten, the most likely scenario is that the winners will join the All Blacks in the last eight of the World Cup.
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