Cian Healy has urged his Ireland team-mates to rise to a different type of challenge as they look to avoid an All Black hangover against Canada on Saturday night [7.15pm, live on RTÉ2].
Healy came off the bench with 20 minutes remaining in the historic slaying of New Zealand in Chicago last week.
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Joe Schmidt's supremely drilled charges stunned their opponents - and just about everyone else - with a superb 40-29 victory, but Healy warned that the visit of Canada to the Aviva Stadium will come with its own dangers, and called for another focused and energised performance.
"We have to keep upping the ante every time," the 29-year-old Leinster prop told RTÉ Sport.
"The standard that was set last week was above anything we've had really before. The level of play and accuracy that was brought out was huge.
"It would be easy to switch off and not have everything perfect but I think there's been a good drive from the lads to be very accurate with plays and defensively to know where to be and know what to do.
"It's very easy to have that sort of energy against the best in the world. The big challenge is to step it up against lower tier nations."
We have to give them the respect they deserve. They've a lot of dangerous runners.
Healy will start in Dublin tomorrow evening in a much-changed line-up.
Schmidt has made 15 changes for the visit of Mark Anscombe's Canadian team, but while a convincing Irish win is expected, Healy is taking nothing for granted.
"We have to give them the respect they deserve," he added. "They've a lot of dangerous runners. The likes of [DTH] Van der Merwe out wide are real threats with ball in space. We can't allow them to get clean ball out that far.
"It would have been tough to have been a starting player [against New Zealand] and go focus fully on the next one straight away.
"We're just trying to find the right rhythm and rest as much as possible as well as getting the right sleep. We're not spending too much time on the feet when we don't need to."
