RWC opening stats

The World Cup opened with a gripping match between France and Argentina at Stade de France on Friday night. We give some statistics from the match.

As the World Cup progresses we shall make some of the stats accumulative.

Soundsure are again a great help with the statistics.

Sanctionary Cards

There were no yellow or red cards in this tough but well-behaved encounter.

Penalties conceded

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

France vs Argentina

Total number of penalties: 17

France: 8
Argentina: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

France:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (De Villiers*, Heymans*, Dominici* 2, Martin*, Betsen, Bonnaire, Chabal)

Argentina:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Juan Fernandez Lobbe** 2, Roncero*, Albacete, Ostiglia, Alvarez)
Off-side: 1 (Gonzalez)

There was also an undetermined penalty at a line-out which the referee labelled “Silly”. Silly was not helpful comment.

The sides each missed two penalty kicks at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

France vs Argentina: 14/17 – 82 per cent

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.

France vs Argentina

France:

Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 7 (5 reset, 3 collapses)
Free-kicks: 2 (marks)
Drop-outs: 3

Argentina:

Line-outs: 17 (3 lost)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

France vs Argentina: 71

Tackles/rucks/mauls per match:

France vs Argentina: 179

Kicks per match

France vs Argentina: 66

France: 29
Argentina: 37

Advantage

Here we give the number of times in the match the referee allowed advantage. (The figure in brackets is the number times the advantage actually accrued.)

France vs Argentina: 23 (13)

Hold-ups for injury:

France vs Argentina: 13

Substitutions/replacements:

France vs Argentina: 8

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

France vs Argentina: 1

France: 0
Argentina: 1

Tries/penalties scored

This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:

France: 0/4
Argentina: 1/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 1/8