New Zealand emphatically ended their two-match losing streak with a comprehensive 39-10 victory over Australia in the Bledisloe Cup/Tri-Nations encounter at Eden Park.

Heading into the crucial clash in Auckland on the back of successive losses to South Africa and the Wallabies, the pressure was on Graham Henry's All Blacks to bounce back.

And they responded by dominating in every department. Tony Woodcock and Ma'a Nonu each crossed twice as the hosts outscored their visitors by four tries to one with the rest of points coming from the boot of Dan Carter.

New Zealand captain Richie McCaw told Sky Sports 2: "We certainly weren't happy after last week.

"It's not very nice when you know you have been outmuscled and the boys have been hurting all week. We wanted to put together a good performance.

"We talked about a lot of things that let us down last week and we worked on the stuff that often doesn't get seen.

"When you lose two in a row it's a measure of how you get back on the horse and we can't afford to go back. We have to continue on from here and get better."

Australia captain Stirling Mortlock said: "It was a role reversal from last week and they really kicked some good goal positions and we gave them a lot of field positions and lot of position by poor discipline.

"At half-time it felt like we hadn't played much footy. We wanted to go out and be positive but unfortunately when you give away penalties and you don't play field positions too well, you struggle to play rugby."

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