Stats - June Tests, Week 4
This weekend Australia beat France 34-13 in Sydney and Italy beat Argentina 13-12 in Buenos Aires. We give some statistics from the two matches.
Sanctions
There were yellow cards for fighting in the Buenos Aires match, both against Argentinian props, Juan Gómez and Rodrigo Roncero. In both matches there was a large number of penalties – 19 against Argentina and 15 against Australia. It may be surprising that no further action was taken for repeated infringement.
Yellow cards in June so far:
CJ van der Linde (South Africa) – fighting
Richard Hibbard (Wales) – fighting
Andy Sheridan (England) – tackle infringement
Mike Tindall (England) – tackle infringement
Felipe Contepomi (Argentina) – fighting
Mike Tindall (England) – tackle infringement
Carlo Del Fava (Italy) – dangerous tackle
Juan Gómez (Argentina) – fighting
Rodrigo Roncero (Argentina) – fighting
Penalties conceded
In this section we record the times a team was penalised.
* = points conceded
(i) Australia vs France
Total number of penalties: 24
Australia: 15
France: 9
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Australia:
Tackle/ruck: 9 (Sharpe 3, Elsom*, Barnes, Horwill 2, Waugh, Baxter)
Off-side: 3 (Horwill*, Sharpe, Mumm)
Scrum: 1 (Baxter)
Discipline: 2 (Giteau – man without ball; Sharpe – air tackle)
France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Nallet, Bruno, Chabal, Traille*, Ouedraogo 2, Harinordoquy)
Discipline: 2 (Boyoud – high tackle; Yachvili – +10)
Australia missed a penalty kick at goal.
(ii) Argentina vs Italy
Total number of penalties: 30
Argentina: 19
Italy: 11
The reasons for the penalties were as follows:
Argentina:
Tackle/ruck: 10 (Roncero, Tejeda 2, Borges, Lozada, Durand, Leguizamon* 2, Galindo 2)
Off-side: 4 (Bosch, Galindo, Roncero*, Lozada)
Scrum: 1 (Gómez)
Discipline: 4 (Galindo – + 10; Gómez – fighting; Carizza – obstruction; Roncero – late tackle)
Italy:
Tackle/Ruck: 8 (Parisse*, Ongaro*, Mauro Bergamasco, Aramburu, Zanni, Nieto, Canavosio )
Off-side: 2 (Mauro Bergamasco, Del Fava*)
Discipline: 1 (Mirco Bergamasco – obstruction; Del Fava* – air tackle )
Each side missed two penalty kicks at goal.
Tackles/Penalties
This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:
Australia vs France: 16/24 = 66%
Argentina vs Italy: 18/30 = 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.
(i) Australia vs France
Australia:
Line-outs: 15 (2 lost, 1 quick)
Scrums: 11 (1 reset, 1 collapse, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 mark)
Drop-outs: 2
France:
Line-outs: 17 (2 lost)
Scrums: 7 (3 reset, 1 collapse, 2 free kicks)
Free-kicks: 3 (scrums)
Drop-outs: 0
The scrums were more orderly than usual.
(ii) Argentina vs Italy
Argentina:
Line-outs: 11 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 penalty)
Scrums: 9 (4 reset, 7 collapses)
Free-kicks: 3 (1 scrum, 2 marks)
Drop-outs: 2
Italy:
Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 12 (8 reset, 8 collapses, 2 free kicks, 1 penalty)
Free-kicks: 7 (4 marks, 1 line-out, 1 scrum, 1 +10)
Drop-outs: 1
Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):
Australia vs France: 85
Argentina vs Italy: 103
Tries
This is the number of tries each team scored.
(i) Australia vs France: 5
Australia: 4
France: 1
(ii) Argentina vs Italy: 1
Argentina: 0
Italy: 1
Tries/penalties scored
This gives the ratio of tries scored to penalties scored by each team:
Australia: 4/2
Italy: 1/2
France: 1/2
Argentina: 0/4
The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 6/10
