Statistics - Bronze Medal match

The Bronze Medal match reaffirmed Argentina’s hold over France as they ran out winners 34-10 to take the Bronze medal. We give some statistics from the match.

We shall also give some statistics on the use of possession. They make it hard to believe that France lost!

Sanctionary Cards

Sadly it was the most ill-mannered match of the World Cup, producing three yellow cards – Rimas Alvarez Kairelis (Argentina) because his team had repeatedly infringed, Raphael Iba?ez (France) for illegal use of the boot on a player and Juan Manuel Leguizamon (Argentina) for a tackle judged dangerous.

Penalties conceded

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

Argentina vs France

Total number of penalties: 18

Argentina: 13
France: 5

France did not concede a penalty in the second half for the second time in the knock-out matches.

Argentina concded six penalties in the last five minutes of the second half. It would have been seven if the penalty had not been changed because of Raphael Iba?ez’s illegal use of the boot.

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Argentina:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Albacete*, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Alvarez)
Off-side: 2 (Albacete, Corleto)
Discipline: 8 (Albacete – collapsing maul; Manuel Contepomi – air tackle; Albacete – air tackle; Albacete – high tackle; Felipe Contepomi – not 10m; Longo – collpasing maul; Hasan – collapsing maul; Leguizamon – dangerous tackle)

France:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Marty, Thion*, Rougerie)
Off-side: 1 (Nyanga)
Discipline: 1 (Iba?ez – stamping)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

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

Argentina vs France: 9/18

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.

Argentina vs France

Argentina:

Line-outs: 6 (1 quick)
Scrums: 13 (4 reset, 4 collapses)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

France:

Line-outs: 23 (1 lost, 3 quick, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 3 collapses, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 1

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

Argentina vs France: 69

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Argentina vs France: 6

Argentina: 5
France: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

Argentina: 5/1
France: 1/1