Wales vs South Africa - statistics

South Africa beat Wales 34-12 at Millennium Stadium on Saturday. We give some of the statistics of the Test.

Sanctionary Cards

Two players received yellow card, both South Africans, both for tackle offences, both replacements who had just come onto the field..

Recipients

Albert van den Berg (South Africa)
Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa)

Penalties conceded

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

Wales vs South Africa

Total number of penalties: 15

Wales: 6
South Africa: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Bennett, Sowden-Taylor)
Off-side: 2 (Wyn Jones, Ian Evans)
Discipline: 2 (Jonathan Thomas – high tackle; Charteris – man without ball)

South Africa:

Tackle/ruck: 7 (Van der Linde, Smith, Januarie, Van den Berg, Muller, Habana, Bismarck du Plessis)
Off-side: 2 (Muller, van der Linde)

Wales 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:

Wales vs South Africa: 9/15 = 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.

Wales:

Line-outs: 20 (3 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick, 1 free kick)
Scrums: 10 (4 reset, 2 collapses, 1 lost, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 0

South Africa:

Line-outs: 10 (2 lost)
Scrums: 14 (4 reset, 4 collapses, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 1

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

Wales vs South Africa: 80

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Wales vs South Africa:

Wales: 2
South Africa: 5

Tries/penalties scored

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

Wales: 2/0
South Africa: 5/1

The ratio of tries scored to penalties goaled is 7/1