Cheika backs All Blacks to beat Lions

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says the British and Irish Lions will struggle to beat the world champion All Blacks. He said he hadn't looked at the Lions squad in great detail but doubted they could win the series. “New Zealand are in pretty red-hot form, so it will take a special effort to beat them there,” he said. He even went as far as to say he would be backing his fierce transtasman rivals. “I will be more focused on what we're doing over here but as much as we are enemies with New Zealand, I am always with the Southern Hemisphere against the Northern Hemisphere.”