Statistics: Wembley

The Saracens and the Springboks met at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday, a match the Saracens won 24-23. We give some statistics. If some of the Sarries’ names look Saracens it is because 10 of their players were Saracens.

Spectators

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Sanctions

There were no cards in an exceptionally well-mannered game.

Penalties conceded

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

Saracens vs Springboks

Total number of penalties: 17

Saracens: 5
Springboks: 12

The Saracens were penalsied just once in the  half.

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Saracens:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 3 (Vyvyan, Barritt 2)
Offside: 1 (Botha*)
Discipline: 1 (Van Heerden* – high tackle)

Springboks:
Tackle/ruck/maul: 9 (Deysel** 2, Johnson 2, Potgieter* 2, De Jongh 2, Maku)
Scrum: 2 (Du Preez, Several)
Discipline: 1 (De Jongh – air tackle)

Saracens missed two penalty kicks at goal, Springboks one.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 12/17 – 70%

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.

Saracens:
Line-outs: 16 (6 lost)
Scrums: 12 (3 resets, 5 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

Springboks:
Line-outs: 12 (3 lost)
Scrums: 10 (3 reset, 5 collapses, 2 free kicks, 2 penalties)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 1

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs): 76

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Saracens: 2 (Joubert, Barritt)
Springboks: 3 (De Jongh, Nokwe 2)

Tries/penalties scored:

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

Saracens: 2/3
Springboks: 3/2

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 5/5