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All Blacks coach Steve Hansen believes England are in a "quandary" but has backed the management to get the right game plan together for Saturday's third Test in Hamilton.

England are 2-0 down in the series heading into Saturday's game but there is still plenty on the line as for the All Blacks they are chasing a record-equalling 17th straight win while England will want to end their 2013-14 Test programme with a victory.

England have made seven changes for the match and Hansen is waiting to see what game plan they bring.

"They are in a bit of a quandary really, because they took us on in Dunedin playing a game of real pace and worked out they couldn't," Hansen said. "So what are they going to do now? I've seen Stu [Lancaster] mention in the paper that maybe they shouldn't play too much rugby down their end, so maybe they're going to kick a wee bit more.

"But they will have a good plan because they are good coaches, so we've just got to make sure we've got a good one to counter it."

And Hansen dismissed suggestions England will still be hurting from their second Test defeat. "I think they're a determined bunch so they'll want to put in another performance that they can be proud of, so I don't think we've broken their spirit. They're a group of people who believe in themselves, so they'll get up again."

For the All Blacks, the last time they lost was in 2012 and Hansen wants his side to put down a marker with a 3-0 series win but he is not looking too far into the future beyond Saturday's match.

"We try to live in the present and look towards the future a wee bit. There are different campaigns we have over the year and that becomes the key focus," Hansen said. "If we manage to play well enough to win the test on Saturday then we'll be pretty happy. If you'd said to us before that we'd win 3-0 then that's what we wanted and we'd have been pretty happy. But we beat France pretty regularly until the 2007 World Cup except for the one that mattered."