Try Time for Auckland as the Northland defence cracks. They held the ball up twice over the line and it took a good clean out from Luatua and fine stepping by Anscombe to open Northland up

Auckland pile on the pressure but Northland defend well and hold the ball up over the line. Anscombe makes his return as Auckland set up for a 5m attacking scrum

Northland on a team warning about infringing in the 'red zone' and Auckland opt for a line out to keep the pressure on

Visinia with a low and long ranging kick to take the lead back.

Anscombe binned for an intentional knock down of the ball as Northland counter attack through Macilai who had a number of players in support

Auckland doing most of the attacking in the opening 18 minutes and have earned a fair amount of penalties too. Anscombe attempts to slot another after a tackle infringement

Kara Pryor with a great line break and he does well to find John and offload to the big man who goes over

Auckland take the lead through Anscombe as they capitalise after a scrum penalty

Welcome to this ITM Cup clash between Auckland and Northland