The Wales captain, Alun Wyn Jones, has told his team “the hoodoo and the record has got to go at some point” as Wayne Pivac’s threadbare side dare to dream against New Zealand on Saturday. It is 68 years since a Welsh team beat the All Blacks, and the chances of Jones and his men ending that run at the Principality Stadium are slim. Bookmakers are offering odds of 14-1 on a Wales win. Pivac is without 20 players due to a combination of unavailability, injury and Covid-19. New Zealand are at full strength. Jones said: “The hoodoo and the record has got to go at some point. Dare I say it, who is the pressure on? Is it us? Is it New Zealand? I don’t know. “It depends on the neutral as to their opinion, but it is going to go sooner or later. We just need to focus on the rugby and I think that comes back to the messaging we’ve had from Wayne and the management. If we focus on us, we will be where we want to be irrespective of the result.” Jones will make his 149th Wales appearance and 161st including his 12 British & Irish Lions caps, in Cardiff. It will take him past New Zealand’s double World Cup-winning captain Richie McCaw as the player to win the most caps for a single nation. Jones said Wales have been training with speakers blaring out music to simulate the roar of the spectators. Most Tests since March 2020 have been played in empty stadiums because of Covid-19 and a full house could well be a shock to the system. The Welsh Rugby Union is right in billing the game as sold out, but on Friday several Welsh clubs had tickets left after over-ordering on their allocation. The Guardian understands many supporters have been put off by the need to have a Covid-19 passport to attend the game and there are worries over positive case numbers. Many of the tickets still with clubs are likely to be left unsold and the result could be empty seats. “A lot of the guys, as I did before I became a full-time professional, will have been to internationals,” said Jones. “When you grow up in Wales, that is your education. Now there is the chance to be able to step up across the whitewash and see it from the inside, and that’s what it’s all about. “It can get very loud and we’ve done a bit of speaker stuff with the lineout calling to prepare for that. We’ve done it in the past to try to make it as close as possible to what it is going to be like.”