RWC, Day 6, Statistics
This was a big match in the context of the World Cup 2007, England, the World Champions, against South Africa, former World Champions. We give some match statistics here.
There are other statistics one could talk about – England the first team not to score at the 2007 World Cup, England’s biggest margin of defeat at a World Cup, and so on.
We give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.
We shall also discuss some incidents, probably in conjunction with other matches played over this weekend..
Sanctionary Cards
Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.
Mercifully there were no sanctionary cards in this well-mannered match – lots of red blood but no red cards and, one fervently hopes, no citings..
We are also back to a citing with suspension – Alfie Vaeluaga of Samoa this time, from a match played on Sunday as well as Juan Severino Somoza of Portugal.
Recipients so far
Carl Hayman (New Zealand) – punching
Salvatore Perugini (Italy) – air tackle
Vahafolau Esikia (USA) – tackle infringement
Lawrence Dallaglio (England) – tackle infringement
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle
Jo?o Uva (Portugal) – tackle infringement
Vilimoni Delasau (Fiji) – dangerous tackle
Alexandru Manta (Romania) – maul infringement
Citing with suspension
Phil Vickery (England) – trip, suspended for two weeks
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle, suspended for five weeks
Schalk Burger (South Africa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for four weeks
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks
England vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 14
England: 9
South Africa: 5
In the first half South Africa conceded just one penalty.
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
* = points conceded
England:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Stevens*, Regan, Shaw*, Tait, Corry)
Off-side: 2 (Kay, Stevens*)
Discipline: 2 (Sheridan – collapsing maul; Sackey – deliberate knock-on)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 2 (Muller, BJ Botha)
Off-side: 1 (Van der Linde))
Scrum: 1 (BJ Botha)
Discipline: 1 (Du Preez – air tackle)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal. England did not kick a penalty at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
England vs South Africa:
Getting possession – line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs
In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.
England:
Line-outs: 22 (2 lost, 2 skew, 3 quick)
Scrums: 9 (8 reset, 6 collapses, 3 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 5 (2 marks, 3 scrums)
Drop-outs: 4
South Africa:
Line-outs: 15 (2 lost, 1 penalty, 1 free kick, 1 quick)
Scrums: 9 (1 reset, 2 lost, 1 free kick, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 line-out, 1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
England vs South Africa: 91
Totals per match
Penalties
France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17
New Zealand vs Italy: 3 + 8 = 11
Australia vs Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
England vs USA: 10 + 9 = 19
Wales vs Canada: 6 + 9 = 15
South Africa vs Samoa: 5 + 13 = 18
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 14 = 22
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 14 = 19
Argentina vs Georgia: 6 + 9 = 15
USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23
Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18
Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23
England vs South Africa: 9 + 5 = 14
Tries
France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1
New Zealand vs Italy: 11 + 2 = 13
Australia vs Japan: 13 + 0 = 13
England vs USA: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Canada: 5 + 3 = 8
South Africa vs Samoa: 8 + 1 = 9
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 1 = 9
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 2 = 7
Argentina vs Georgia: 4 + 0 = 4
USA vs Tonga: 2 + 3 = 5
Fiji vs Japan: 4 + 3 = 7
Italy vs Romania: 2 + 2 = 4
England vs South Africa: 0 + 3 = 3
Stoppages
France vs Argentina: 71
New Zealand vs Italy: 58
Australia vs Japan: 60
England vs USA: 81
Wales vs Canada: 80
South Africa vs Samoa: 82
Scotland vs Portugal: 83
Ireland vs Namibia: 87
Argentina vs Georgia: 77
USA vs Tonga: 83
Fiji vs Japan: 71
Italy vs Romania: 87
England vs South Africa: 91
Penalties conceded per team
Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6
Canada: 9
England: 10 + 9 = 19
Fiji: 12
France: 8
Georgia: 9
Ireland: 5
Italy: 8 + 8 = 16
Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
Namibia: 14
New Zealand: 3
Portugal: 14
Romania: 15
Samoa: 13
Scotland: 8
South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10
Tonga: 13
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6
Tries per team
Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13
Canada: 3
England: 3 + 0 = 3
Fiji: 4
France: 0
Georgia: 0
Ireland: 5
Italy: 2 + 2 = 4
Japan: 0 + 3 = 3
Namibia: 2
New Zealand: 11
Portugal: 1
Romania: 2
Samoa: 1
Scotland: 7
South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11
Tonga: 3
USA: 1
Wales: 5
