Statistics - RWC Final

It’s hard to believe that it’s all over – the 2007 Rugby World Cup with all the expectation, then the ups and downs and then the tension of the final in which South Africa beat England 15-6. We give some statistics for the match.

Sanctionary Cards

There was not a single one in an honourable match.

Penalties conceded

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

England vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 12

England: 7
South Africa: 5

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

England:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Tait*, Vickery, Regan*, Corry*, Chuter)
Discipline: 2 (Moody* – trip; Kay* – obstruction)

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Habana*, Pietersen, Burger*)
Discipline: 2 (Van der Linde – obstruction; Smit – obstruction)

South Africa 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:

England vs South Africa: 8/12

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 South Africa

England:

Line-outs: 26 (6 lost, 2 quick)
Scrums: 6 (7 reset, 4 collapses, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

South Africa:

Line-outs: 13
Scrums: 9 (2 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 3 (marks)
Drop-outs: 3

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

England vs South Africa: 83

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

England vs South Africa:

England: 0
South Africa: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

England: 0/2
South Africa: 0/5