A 50-19 massacre of the Wallabies secured trans-Tasman bragging rights for a 23rd successive year at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday night.
Despite the Bledisloe Cup being secured, again, the rugby-mad New Zealand would expect the All Blacks to inflict more pain on Australia in Sydney this weekend.
"Internally there's some habits and standards and a legacy that demands the All Blacks to back up and represent the country," Jordie Barrett said on Tuesday during a training session.
"There's no trophy to play for, but our ambition and our goals haven't really changed," he told the media in Sydney.
The Wallabies' woes at Eden park stretch 40 years, but the All Blacks aren't underestimating the hosts who have a home field advantage with coach Les Kiss at the helm.
He turned heads with Australia's win against world No.1 South Africa a fortnight ago.
It stunned the rugby world and none more so than the All Blacks, who suffered three consecutive defeats against the Springboks in September.
"We put a lot of expectation on ourselves around lifting our game from our previous campaign in South Africa," assistant coach and former All Black Tana Umaga said.
"The quality of Les Kiss and his staff and the players that they have, you know they'll be looking for a response, and we know that they'll be up for it this weekend.
"With the All Blacks, what we represent and who we represent means the utmost to us every week, and so we've got to make sure that we're living that every day that we're here."
Although, Umaga's side are down four players.
Leroy Carter suffered a high ankle sprain in the motion of scoring a try at Eden Park and Anton Lienert-Brown will be brought into the squad as an injury replacement.
Ethan Blackadder injured his calf during the match warm-up last weekend and is replaced by Jamie Hannah.
Asafo Aumua and Anton Segner both failed head injury assessments after clashes and have a mandatory 12-day minimum stand down period.
George Bell and Du'plessis Kirifi take their places.
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