Statistics - second two quarter-finals
There were two quarter-finals on the Sunday – South Africa vs Fiji in Marseille and Argentina vs Scotland in Paris, both exciting matches. We give some statistics.
After the previous day’s mess in Marseilles, the scrums on Sunday – 39 of them with 7 resets and 7 collapses. When Australia played England, there were 14 scrums, 10 resets, 14 collapses, 2 free kicks and 3 penalties. There were fewer collapsed scrums in the other three quarter-final matches in which there were 55 scrums – fewer than just the Australian scrums in the first quarter-final.
Sanctionary Cards
There was just one yellow card in these two matches – against Seru Rabeni for a tackle on Butch James. The tackle was high and armless and James did not have the ball at the time. It was not the only dangerous tackle in the match.
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) South Africa vs Fiji
Total number of penalties conceded: 15
South Africa: 7
Fiji: 8
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
South Africa:
Tackle/ruck: 4 (Du Randt, Rossouw, Habana*, Steenkamp)
Off-side: 1 (Snit)
Discipline: 2 (Smith – high tackle; Bakkies Botha – air tackle)
Fiji:
Tackle/ruck: 3 (Koyamaibole, Rauluni*, Leawere)
Off-side: 2 (Rawaqa 2, Koyamaibole)
Discipline: (Bobo – late and dangerous tackle; Rawaqa & Koto – collapsing maul)
South Africa missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Argentina vs Scotland
Total number of penalties: 19
Argentina: 10
Scotland: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Argentina:
Tackle/ruck: 6 (Roncero, Manuel Contepomi, Felipe Contepomi, Longo, Albacete 2)
Off-side: 3 (Longo* 2, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe)
Discipline: 1 (Albacete – air tackle)
Scotland:
Tackle/Ruck: 2 (White, Rory Lamont*)
Off-side: 3 (Paterson, Ford 2)
Scrum: 1 (Murray)
Discipline: 3 (Taylor – air tackle; Hines* – high tackle; Hines* – collapsing maul)
Argentina and Scotland each 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:
South Africa vs Fiji: 15/15 = 33%
Argentina vs Scotland: 8/19 = 42%
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) South Africa vs Fiji
South Africa:
Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 reset)
Scrums: 14 (1 reset, 1 collapse)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2
Fiji:
Line-outs: 16 (2 lost, 2 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 10 (1 reset, 1 collapse, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2
(ii) Argentina vs Scotland
Argentina:
Line-outs: 14 (2 lost)
Scrums: 8 (1 reset, 1 collapses, 1 free kick, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 2
Scotland:
Line-outs: 19 (1 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 8 (5 reset, 1 collapse, 1 free kick, 1 penalty, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)
Drop-outs: 3
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
South Africa vs Fiji: 71
Argentina vs Scotland: 83
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) South Africa vs Fiji:
South Africa: 5
Fiji: 2
(ii) Argentina vs Scotland:
Argentina: 1
Scotland: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
South Africa: 5/2
Fiji: 2/2
Argentina: 1/3
Scotland: 1/2
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 9/9
