Statistics: Tigers vs Springboks

Leicester Tigers with a pick-up side in the wake of many absent for higher duty and injury and even a borrowing from second-division neighbours won a famous victory over a South Africa XV at Welford Road, winning 22-17.  We give some statistics in this match.

Sanctions

Cards

There were no cards.

Penalties conceded

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

Leicester Tigers vs South Africa XV

Total number of penalties conceded: 27

Leicester Tigers: 14
South Africa XV: 13

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Leicester Tigers:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 10 (Tuilagi 2, Pienaar*, Hammond 2, Hemingway* 2, Armes, Green, Chuter)
Off-side: 1 (Davies)
Scrum: 1 (Cole*)
Discipline: 2 (Mauger* – obstruction; Hemingway – pulling down in line-out)

South Africa XV:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 6 (Raubenheimer, Du Plessis** 3, Johnson, Potgieter)
Scrum: 5 (Steenkamp 3, Van der Merwe 2)

The number of penalties at tackles and scrums is high.

Leicester Tigers missed two penalty kicks at goal, South Africa one.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 16/27 – 60%

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.

Leicester Tigers:
Line-outs: 7 (1 lost)
Scrums: 9 (5 reset, 3 collapses, 1 wheel, 5 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (marks)
Drop-outs: 2

South Africa XV:
Line-outs: 17 (3 lost)
Scrums: 2 (2 resets, 1 collapse, 1 wheel)
Free-kicks: 1 (mark)
Drop-outs: 2

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 77

There were considerably more stoppages than in the first two Tri-Nations matches though the day was perfect for rugby.

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Leicester Tigers: 1 (Amorosino)
South Africa XV: 1 (Nokwe)

Tries/penalties scored:

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

Leicester Tigers: 1/5
South Africa XV: 1/4

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 2/9