Overall, these sides have met in 37 previous Tests with Australia winning 22, Ireland 14 and the pair sharing a draw at Croke Park in 2009.
Ireland have won the past three meetings, a run that included a series victory in Australia in 2018, and another triumph on Saturday would equal their longest ever winning run against the Wallabies.
They still have some way to go, however, to match Australia’s 11-game winning run in this fixture between 1981 and 1999.
Fans attending the game on Saturday will be hoping for a better spectacle than when the sides last met in 2022.
In what was a disjointed game after Irish captain Johnny Sexton pulled out with an injury during the warm-up, Bundee Aki and Jordan Petaia traded scores before Ireland’s replacement fly-half Ross Byrne kicked a late penalty for a 13-10 win.
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