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Statistics - RWC, Day 13

There were three matches on this day on which South Africa battled to beat Tonga 30-25, England eventually beat Samoa 42-22 and Argentina were too good for Namibia whom they beat 63-3.

We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Sanctionary Cards

Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.

There were three yellow cards in the South Africa-Tonga match, two against South Africa and one against Tonga.

Recipients of red cards so far

Hale T Pole (Tonga) – foul play, suspended for one match.
Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one match

Recipients of yellow cards 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
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Nathan Sharpe (Australia) – tackle infringement
David Wallace (Ireland) – deliberate knock-on
Epeli Taione (Tonga) – tackle infringement
Toma Toke (Tonga) – dangerous tackle
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – punching
Paul O’Connell (Ireland) – persistent infringement at a maul
Damien Traille (France) – twice stopping a tapped penalty within 10 metres
Francois Steyn (South Africa) – fighting
Joseph Vaka (Tonga) – fighting
Bryan Habana (South Africa) – tackle 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

Penalties conceded

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

(I)South Africa vs Tonga

Total number of penalties: 19

South Africa: 10
Tonga: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Van Heerden, Skinstad, BJ Botha, Habana)
Off-side: 3 (Skinstad*, Van Heerden, Van den Berg)
Discipline: 3 (Pietersen – air tackle; Bakkies Botha – late tackle; Van der Linde – man without ball))

Tonga:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Latu, Tu’ipulotu, Pulu)
Off-side: 2 (Lutui, Kauhenga*)
Scrum: 1 (Whole pack disintegrated)
Discipline: 3 (Vaka – high tackle; Tonga’uiha – collapsing maul; Afeaki* – collapsing maul)

South Africa missed four penalty kicks at goal, Tonga 1. Four missed penalty kicks at goal is the most for any team in the World Cup so far,

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 7/19

South Africa vs Tonga:

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.

South Africa vs Tonga

South Africa:

Line-outs: 10 (1 skew)
Scrums: 5 (1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 3

Tonga:

Line-outs: 12 (4 lost)
Scrums: 13 (5 reset, 2 collapses, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 4

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

South Africa vs Tonga: 72

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

South Africa vs Tonga:

South Africa: 4
Tonga: 3

Tries/penalties scored

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

South Africa: 4/2
Tonga: 3/2

(ii) England vs Samoa

Total number of penalties: 18

England: 9
Samoa: 8`

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

England:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Shaw*, Gomarsall*, Cueto, Sackey)
Off-side: 3 (Barkley*, Wilkinson*, Gomarsall
Discipline: 4 (Gomarsall – obstruction; Kay – not 10m)

Samoa:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Johnston, Tekori, Lemi)
Off-side: 2 (Sititi, Lima)
Scrum: 1 (So’oialo)
Discipline: 2 (Lima – high tackle; Johnston – collapsing maul; Thompson – air tackle)

England missed two penalty kicks at goal.

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

England vs Samoa: 7/18

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.

England vs Samoa

England:

Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 quick, 1 skew)
Scrums: 5 (2 reset, 2 collapses)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 0

Samoa:

Line-outs: 13 (5 lost)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 3 collapses, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 2

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

England vs Samoa: 68

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

England vs Samoa:

England: 4
Samoa: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

England: 4/4
Samoa: 1/5

(iii) Argentina vs Namibia

Total number of penalties: 16

Argentina: 5
Namibia: 11

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Argentina:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Manuel Contepomi* 2, Pichot, Ostiglia)
Discipline: 1 (Scelzo – late tackle)

Namibia:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Mouton, Burger 2, Lensing)
Off-side: 4 (Redelinghuys*, Schreuder, Du Plessis, Van Zyl)
Scrum: 2 (Meyer, Horn)
Discipline: 1 (Powell – high tackle)

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 Namibia: 8/16

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 Namibia

Argentina:

Line-outs: 20 (3 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 1 collapse, 2 penalties, 1 penalty try)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 1

Namibia:

Line-outs: 16 (3 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 12 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 2 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 0

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

Argentina vs Namibia: 80

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Argentina vs Namibia:

Argentina: 9
Namibia: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

Argentina: 9/2
Namibia: 0/1

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15
Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16
Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13
Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21
Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22
France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9
Scotland vs Romania: 10 + 7 = 17
Italy vs Portugal: 10 + 10 = 20
Wales vs Japan: 5 + 9 = 14
France vs Ireland: 11 + 14 = 25
South Africa vs Tonga: 10 + 9 = 19
England vs Samoa: 9 + 9 = 18
Argentina vs Namibia: 5 + 11 = 16

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17
Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5
Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3
Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5
Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1
France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14
Scotland vs Romania: 6 + 0 = 6
Italy vs Portugal: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Japan: 11 + 2 = 13
France vs Ireland: 2 + 0 = 2
South Africa vs Tonga: 4 + 3 = 7
England vs Samoa: 4 + 1 = 5
Argentina vs Namibia: 9 + 0 = 9

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Wales vs Australia: 79
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Canada vs Fiji: 71
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
France vs Namibia: 69
Scotland vs Romania: 90
Italy vs Portugal: 87
Wales vs Japan: 72
France vs Ireland: 100
South Africa vs Tonga: 72
England vs Samoa: 68
Argentina vs Namibia: 80

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 + 5 = 21
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 = 20
England: 10 + 9 + 9 = 28
Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22
France: 8 + 4 + 11 = 23
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28
Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26
Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 = 21
Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 = 30
New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 = 34
Romania: 15 + 7 = 22
Samoa: 13 + 12 + 9 = 34
Scotland: 8 + 10 = 18
South Africa: 5 + 5 + 10 = 20
Tonga: 13 + 10 + 9 = 32
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 = 16

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 + 9 = 14
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3 + 1 = 4
England: 3 + 0 + 4 = 7
Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8
France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7
Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 = 5
Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Romania: 2 + 0 = 2
Samoa: 1 + 0 + 1 = 2
Scotland: 7 + 6 = 13
South Africa: 8 + 3 + 4 = 15
Tonga: 3 + 1 + 3 = 7
USA: 1 + 2 = 3
Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17

Statistics – RWC, Day 12

This was the big crcunch match at Stade de France when France beat Ireland 25-3.

We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Sanctionary Cards

Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.

There were two yellow cards in this match, both for technical offneces, one by Paul O’Connell of Ireland and one by Damien Traille of France.

Recipients of red cards so far

Hale T Pole (Tonga) – foul play, suspended fror one match.
Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one match

Recipients of yellow cards 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
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Nathan Sharpe (Australia) – tackle infringement
David Wallace (Ireland) – deliberate knock-on
Epeli Taione (Tonga) – tackle infringement
Toma Toke (Tonga) – dangerous tackle
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – punching
Paul O’Connell (Ireland) – persistent infringement at a maul
Damien Traille (France) – twice stopping a tapped penalty within 10 metres

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

France vs Ireland

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 25

France: 11
Ireland: 14

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

France:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Heymans, Ibanez)
Off-side: 2 (Dusautoir, Jauzion)
Scrum: 1 (Undetermined)
Discipline: 6 (Betsen – air tackle; Marty – obstruction; Chabal – air tackle; Iba?ez – foot pn player; Traille – not 10m; Traille – not 10m)

Ireland:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Wallace, Leamy* 2, O’Connell, O’Driscoll*, D’Arcy)
Off-side: 4 (Undetermined*, Easterby, Easterby, O’Connell)
Discipline: 4 (Easterby & O’Callaghan – not 10m; Wallace – foot on player; Easterby – late tackle; Sheahan – pulling leg in maul)

France missed two kicks at goal, Ireland one.

Tackles/Penalties

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

France vs Ireland: 8/25

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 Ireland

France:

Line-outs: 21 (1 skew, 2 quick)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 4 collpases, 1 penalty
Free-kicks: 5 (3 marks, 1 +10, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 1

Ireland:

Line-outs: 20 (5 lost, 1 reset, 2 peanlties, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)
Drop-outs: 2

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

France vs Ireland: 100

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

France vs Ireland:

France: 2
Ireland: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

France: 2/5
Ireland: 0/0

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15
Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16
Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13
Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21
Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22
France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9
Scotland vs Romania: 10 + 7 = 17
Italy vs Portugal: 10 + 10 = 20
Wales vs Japan: 5 + 9 = 14
France vs Ireland: 11 + 14 = 25

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17
Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5
Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3
Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5
Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1
France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14
Scotland vs Romania: 6 + 0 = 6
Italy vs Portugal: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Japan: 11 + 2 = 13
France vs Ireland: 2 + 0 = 2

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
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Wales vs Australia: 79
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Canada vs Fiji: 71
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
France vs Namibia: 69
Scotland vs Romania: 90
Italy vs Portugal: 87
Wales vs Japan: 72
France vs Ireland: 100

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 = 20
England: 10 + 9 = 19
Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22
France: 8 + 4 + 11 = 23
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28
Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26
Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 = 21
Namibia: 14 + 5 = 19
New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 = 34
Romania: 15 + 7 = 22
Samoa: 13 + 12 = 25
Scotland: 8 + 10 = 18
South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10
Tonga: 13 + 10 = 23
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 = 16

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3 + 1 = 4
England: 3 + 0 = 3
Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8
France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7
Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 = 5
Namibia: 2 + 1 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Romania: 2 + 0 = 2
Samoa: 1 + 0 = 1
Scotland: 7 + 6 = 13
South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11
Tonga: 3 + 1 = 4
USA: 1 + 2 = 3
Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17

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