Statistics: November Tests, Week 2
It was, you may say, as busy weekend. All the top tier countries were involved, and we give statistics from all those matches. Unfortunately the statistics for the matches in Nantes and Verona are not as full.
In the stats you can see who was penalised, how long the ball was in play, how many stoppages there were, how many tries were scored, how many scrums there were and how many of them were a mess, and more.
Would you guess which match had the most ball in play?
Jan Taljaard gave us the ball in play time and as usual Fika was a big help.
Results, Round 2
Argentina vs Italy, 22-16
England vs Australia, 35-18
France vs Fiji, 34-12
Ireland vs Samoa, 20-10
New Zealand vs Scotland, 49-3
South Africa vs Wales, 29-25
Sanctions
Cited and suspended
Keven Mealamu – for a headbutt; suspended for two weeks
Yellow Cards
Matt Giteau (Australia) and Mariano Galarza (Argentina).
It is a surprise that there were not greater sanctions taken against some of the messy scrums, of which Ireland was deemed to be the worst offender.
Yellow cards so far this November:
Jerome Kaino (New Zealand) – tackle infringement
Bryan Habana (South Africa) – deliberate knock-on close to his line.
Tom Shanklin (Wales) – early tackle
Matt Giteau (Australia) – tackle infringement
Mariano Galarza (Argentina) – scrum infringement
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Wales vs South Africa
Total number of penalties: 21
Wales: 11
South Africa: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Wales:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Powell*, Jonathan Thomas*, Alun-Wyn Jones, Byrne)
Off-side: 4 (Jonathan Thomas*, Rees, Phillips, North)
Scrum: 2 (Adam Jones, Yapp)
Discipline: 1 (Davies – collapsing maul)
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (De Villiers, Spies, Stegmann*, Bismarck du Plessis*, Van der Merwe, Matfield, Spies)
Off-side: 2 (Habana 2)
Discipline: 1 (Matfield – not 10)
Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) England vs Australia
Total number of penalties: 23
England: 12
Australia: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
England:
Tackle/ruck: 8 (Easter 2, Hape, Flood, Sheridan, Hartley, Cole, Tindall)
Off-side: 2 (Tindall, Moody)
Scrum: 1 (Cole*)
Discipline: 1 (Easter* – playing ball at penalty)
Australia:
Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Alexander*, Robinson** 2, Elsom, Giteau*, Sharpe*, Barnes*, Burgess*)
Scrum: 2 (Robinson, Slipper)
Discipline: 1 (Mumm)
Australia missed two penalty kicks at goal.
(iii) Scotland vs New Zealand
Total number of penalties: 18
Scotland: 6
New Zealand: 12
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Scotland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Jacobsen, Sean Lamont, Barclay, Scott Lawson)
Offside: 2 (Blair, Evans)
New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Messam* 3, McCaw 2, Muliaina, Woodcock)
Scrum: 4 (Owen Franks, Woodcock 2, Afoa
Discipline: (McCaw – air tackle)
Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.
(iv) Ireland vs Samoa
Total number of penalties: 19
Ireland: 9
Samoa: 10
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Ireland:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (O’Brien* 2, O’Callaghan, Heaslip)
Off-side: 1 (Leamy)
Scrum: 3 (Court 2, Hayes)
Discipline: 1 (O’Callaghan – air tackle)
Samoa:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Pisi, Lavea*, Taukafo, Stowers, Salavea 2)
Off-side: 1 (Schwalger*)
Scrum: 1 (Lemalu)
Samoa missed a penalty kick at goal.
(v) Italy vs Argentina
Total number of penalties: 29
Italy: 12
Argentina: 17
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Italy:
Tackle/ruck: 7
Off-side: 2
Scrum: 2
Discipline: 1
Argentina:
Tackle/Ruck: 11
Off-side: 2
Scrum: 2
Discipline: 2
Argentina were punished with a penalty try.
(vi) France vs Fiji:
Total number of penalties: 26
France: 9
Fiji: 17
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
France:
Tackle/ruck: 7
Scrum: 2
Fiji:
Tackle/ruck: 6
Off-side: 3
Scrum 5
Discipline: 3
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Wales vs South Africa: 11/21 = 52%
England vs Australia: 16/23 = 70%
Scotland vs New Zealand: 11/18 = 61%
Ireland vs Samoa: 10/19 = 53%
Italy vs Argentina: 18/29 = 62%
France vs Fiji: 13/26 = 50%
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.
(i) Wales vs South Africa
Wales:
Line-outs: 12 (1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 3 (3 reset, 3 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
South Africa:
Line-outs: 9 (2 lost)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0
(ii) England vs Australia
England:
Line- outs: 12 (2 lost, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 4 (1 reset, 5 collapses, 1 penalty, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (2 scrums, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 4
Australia:
Line-outs: 7 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 3 (1 reset, 2 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (scum)
Drop-outs: 0
(iii) Scotland vs New Zealand
Scotland:
Line-outs: 10 (2 lost)
Scrums: 10 (6 reset, 7 collapses, 4 penalties, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0
New Zealand:
Line-outs: 7 (2 lost)
Scrums: 11 (1 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
(iv) Ireland vs Samoa
Ireland:
Line-outs: 13 (1 free kick)
Scrums: 8 (8 reset, 12 collapses, 1 free kick, 4 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 0
Samoa:
Line-outs: 18 (2 lost)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 3 collapses,, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1
(v) Italy vs Argentina
There were 14 scrums. Resets: 3 Italy, 1 Argentina. Free kicks: 1 to Italy. Penalties 3 to Italy, 2 to Argentina
Italy:
Line-outs: 10 (1 lost, 1 quick, 1 skew)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 2
Argentina:
Line-outs: 12 (1 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 3
(vi) France vs Fiji:
There were 27 scrums. Resets: 2 France, 2 Fiji. Free kicks: 2 to France, 2 to Italy. Penalties 5 to France, 2 to Fiji. There was also a penalty try against Fiji at a scrum.
France:
Line-outs: 9 (3 lost, 2 quick)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0
Fiji:
Line-outs: 13 (3 lost, 1 skew)
Free-kicks: 2 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Wales vs South Africa: 62
England vs Australia: 59
Scotland vs New Zealand: 67
Ireland vs Samoa: 80
Italy vs Argentina: 76
France vs Fiji: 84
Stoppages do not give the length of stoppages. One scrum in the Ireland-Samoa game took 4 minutes 16 seconds – 5% of the match on one scrum.
Ball in Play
Wales vs South Africa: 18 minutes 35 secs + 22 minutes 41 secs = 41 minutes 16 secs
England vs Australia: 15 minutes 53 secs + 21 minutes 17 secs = 37 minutes 10 secs
Scotland vs New Zealand: 16 minutes 58 secs + 17 minutes 14 secs = 34 minutes 12 secs
Ireland vs Samoa: 15 minutes 8 secs + 15 minutes 14 secs = 30 minutes 22 secs
Italy vs Argentina: not available
France vs Fiji: 13 minutes 20 secs + 15 minutes 43 secs = 29 minutes 3 secs
Tackles/rucks/mauls per match
Wales vs South Africa: 246
England vs Australia: 190
Scotland vs New Zealand: 173
Ireland vs Samoa: 157
Italy vs Argentina: 168
France vs Fiji: 140
Kicks per match
Wales vs South Africa: 37
Wales: 16
South Africa: 21
England vs Australia: 41
England: 24
Australia: 17
Scotland vs New Zealand: 19
Scotland: 5
New Zealand: 14
Ireland vs Samoa: 39
Ireland: 22
Samoa 17
Italy vs Argentina: 62
Italy: 28
Argentina: 34
France vs Fiji: 45
France: 24
Fiji: 21
The team that kicked more than its opponents won in each case!
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.)
Wales vs South Africa: 18 (5)
England vs Australia: 17 (6)
Scotland vs New Zealand: 19 (6)
Ireland vs Samoa: 13 (6)
Italy vs Argentina: 20 (8)
France vs Fiji: 24 (9)
Hold-ups for injury
Wales vs South Africa: 5
England vs Australia: 2
Scotland vs New Zealand: 6
Ireland vs Samoa: 1
Italy vs Argentina: 6
France vs Fiji: 2
Substitutions/replacements
Wales vs South Africa: 10
England vs Australia: 11
Scotland vs New Zealand: 12
Ireland vs Samoa: 10
Italy vs Argentina: 2
France vs Fiji: 10
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Wales vs South Africa: 5
Wales: 3
South Africa: 2
(ii) England vs Australia: 4
England: 2
Australia: 2
(iii) Scotland vs New Zealand: 7
Scotland: 0
New Zealand: 7
(iv) Ireland vs Samoa: 3
Ireland: 2
Samoa: 1
(v) Italy vs Argentina: 2
Italy: 1
Argentina: 1
(vi) France vs Fiji: 3
France: 3
Fiji: 0
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Wales: 3/2
South Africa: 2/5
Australia: 2/2
England: 2/7
Scotland: 0/1
New Zealand: 7/0
Ireland: 2/2
Samoa: 1/1
Italy: 1/4
Argentina: 1/5
France: 3/5
Fiji: 0/4
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 24/40
