"New Zealand are never worse than very good," Johnson said. "We need consistency as a group for 80 minutes. Pressure is what it is all about and you do that on the field by being a united group of players.

"To beat the All Blacks you have to have a solid 80-minute game. They will get points on you at some point and you have to be resilient enough to bounce back."

England played well for 26 minutes against Australia two weeks ago but then stumbled and lost 18-9, while it was tied 9-9 with Argentina until the 70th minute last weekend before scoring a late try for a 16-9 win.

Australia is at Scotland on Saturday seeking to recover from the disappointment of a 20-20 draw at Ireland and Argentina is at Wales.

England is set for a tougher match than any of them, although the All Blacks have been below their sparkling best in wins over Wales and Italy.

The New Zealand team features 13 personnel changes to the second-string lineup that beat Italy 20-6 last weekend, with star flyhalf Dan Carter set to become his nation's all-time leading scorer as he returns from suspension

Carter needs just two points, the equivalent of one conversion, to overtake Andrew Mehrtens' tally of 967.

Winger Sitiveni Sivivatu is the only back to survive from the lineup in Milan, while the only forward to play consecutive weekends will be lock Tom Donnelly, who makes his fifth second-row appearance alongside veteran Brad Thorn.

While that gives New Zealand just about its strongest possible lineup, England still has about a dozen starters out injured and is set to give Ayoola Erinle his first international start out of position at inside center.

Johnson's response to his team's slow and obvious attack has been to recall powerful veteran lock Simon Shaw and tough-tackling flanker Joe Worsley in the only other changes.

But All Blacks coach Graham Henry says the unfamiliar nature of the England lineup, which shows 12 changes to the one beaten 32-6 in last year's corresponding fixture, presents its own challenges.

"I don't know some of them, to be frank," Henry said. "Obviously I know Joe and Simon. They're top quality players and both did well on the recent Lions tour. They'll add physicality to the pack and I'm sure that's the goal.

"I don't know a lot about Erinle. We're doing a bit of homework on him. Hopefully by tomorrow we'll know a whole lot more."

Argentina will be relying upon its front row of Rodrigo Roncero, Mario Ledesma and Martin Scelzo to outmuscle Wales, which troubled New Zealand before losing 19-9 two weeks ago.

Wales coach Warren Gatland has effectively reverted to the team that lost to the All Blacks, recalling Shane Williams, Stephen Jones, Matthew Rees and Martyn Williams after they were rested for a 17-13 win over Samoa.

The only difference to the side that lost 19-12 to the touring All Blacks on Nov. 7 is Jonathan Davies replacing injured center Tom Shanklin.

Shane Williams highlighted the fact that Wales has scored just two tries at home in 2009 as an area for concern.

"We are creating things but we're just not finishing off tries at the moment," Williams said. "We haven't hit the panic button yet as we have players behind the scrum who score tries week in, week out for fun."

Australia lost the chance of a first grand slam since 1984 last week but made just one change to its team for its match at Murrayfield, resting Dublin man of the match David Pocock and restoring George Smith at openside flanker.

Coach Robbie Deans said the 21-year-old Pocock needs time off after his display in a game in which Australia never trailed and led until Brian O'Driscoll touched down in the last minute.

"David had an outstanding game, and was deservedly man of the match in Dublin, but he did get knocked around a bit," Deans said. "Because of that, we decided it was prudent to give him a complete breather at this point.

"We're in the fortunate position of having George in form and ready to go."

Also Saturday, Ireland hosts Fiji and World Cup champion South Africa is at Italy seeking a first win on its European tour.

The Springboks have lost to France and English clubs Leicester and Saracens so far.