{"id":30618,"date":"2026-07-10T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/punters\/?p=30618"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:01:14","slug":"new-zealand-vs-italy-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/punters\/2026\/07\/new-zealand-vs-italy-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand vs Italy Tips, Predictions &amp; Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entain-block teams-tip-block hoverable\">\n  <div class=\"teams-tip-header\">\n    <div class=\"teams-tip-header-meta\">\n      <!--div class=\"teams-tip-header-meta__inner\"-->\n        <div class=\"team-vs-team\" style=\"display:flex\">\n          <span class=\"icon\"><svg width=\"32\" height=\"32\" fill=\"currentColor\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><!----><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/punters\/wp-content\/themes\/punters\/assets\/brand-icons\/tabnz\/svg-sports-country-flags-icon.svg?v=20261029b#new-zealand\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span>\n          <div style=\"display:flex; flex-direction:row; flex-wrap:wrap; justify-content:center; align-items:center; text-align:center; column-gap:5px; font-weight: 700\">\n            <div class=\"team_1\" style=\"flex-direction:column;\">New Zealand<\/div>\n            <div class=\"versus\" style=\"font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;\">vs<\/div>\n            <div class=\"team_2\">Italy<\/div>\n                        <div class=\"info\">Saturday 11th July 3:10 PM (AEST) at HNRY Stadium, Wellington<\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"bet-on\" style=\"margin-top:0\">New Zealand -32.5 @ $1.90<\/div>\n                                  <\/div>\n          <span class=\"icon\"><svg width=\"32\" height=\"32\" fill=\"currentColor\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"><!----><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/punters\/wp-content\/themes\/punters\/assets\/brand-icons\/tabnz\/svg-sports-country-flags-icon.svg?v=20261029b#italy\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <!--\/div -->\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n      <div class='teams-tip-content'>\n      <p>It was mission achieved for Dave Rennie and the All Blacks last week. They weren\u2019t convincing when beating France by two points, but the All Blacks always come out rusty in the first test of the season. Rennie has made changes to the team to face Italy, and it should be an easy victory. Italy suffered an embarrassing loss to Japan last week, and that form won\u2019t be good enough to cover the +32.5 spread against the ABs. We expect a one-sided game to start the week, so include the All Blacks -32.5 in Nations Championship multi bets this week.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"teams-tip-button\">\t\t\t\n          <a class=\"track-me btn-standard bet-now-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/sports\/rugby-union\/nations-championship\/new-zealand-v-italy\/3031be1e-126c-41c3-8e3b-4caefecd09d4\" target=\"_blank\" \n          data-tr-event=\"blog\" data-tr-method=\"bet now button\" data-tr-action=\"open sport_event\" data-tr-label=\"3031be1e-126c-41c3-8e3b-4caefecd09d4\" data-tr-event-id=\"3031be1e-126c-41c3-8e3b-4caefecd09d4\"  \n          >New Zealand vs Italy<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Zealand vs Italy Odds &amp; Popular Betting Markets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at the current odds and popular betting markets for the New Zealand vs Italy matchup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*odds are correct at the time of publishing and are subject to change&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div data-league=\"Nations Championship\" data-event=\"spin-JJfOBxm-VN71meYQ3sE36bZHKPI\" data-market=\"Line {{-32.5}}\" data-sport=\"rugby_union\" class=\"sport-data\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div data-league=\"Nations Championship\" data-event=\"spin-JJfOBxm-VN71meYQ3sE36bZHKPI\" data-market=\"Anytime Try Scorer\" data-sport=\"rugby_union\" class=\"sport-data\"><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was mission achieved for Dave Rennie and the All Blacks last week. They weren\u2019t convincing when beating France by two points, but the All Blacks always come out rusty in the first test of the season. Rennie has made changes to the team to face Italy, and it should be an easy victory. Italy suffered an embarrassing loss to Japan last week, and that form won\u2019t be good enough to cover the +32.5 spread against the ABs. We expect a one-sided game to start the week, so include the All Blacks -32.5 in Nations Championship multi bets this week.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[751],"tags":[753],"hub_post_cat":[],"class_list":["post-30618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-union-head-to-head","tag-rugby"],"acf":{"md_tip_date":"","md_tip_date_end":"","md_market_url":"","tip_date":"10\/07\/2026","event_country":"New Zealand"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Zealand vs Italy Tips, Predictions &amp; Odds - Nations Rugby Tips<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tab.co.nz\/punters\/2026\/07\/new-zealand-vs-italy-predictions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_NZ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Zealand vs Italy Tips, Predictions &amp; Odds - Nations Rugby Tips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It was mission achieved for Dave Rennie and the All Blacks last week. 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