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Statistics - RWC, Day 11

The match in Cardiff between Wales and Japan produced a big (72-18) win for wales but the try of the tournament so far by Japan. We give some match stats.

We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Sanctionary Cards

Carl Hayman of New Zealand became the first recipient of a yellow card. He was not the only one.

There was no sign of a yellow card in this splendidly-mannered match.

Recipients of red cards so far

Hale T Pole (Tonga) – foul play, suspended fror one match.
Jacques Nieuwenhuis (Namibia) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one match

Recipients of yellow cards so far

Carl Hayman (New Zealand) – punching
Salvatore Perugini (Italy) – air tackle
Vahafolau Esikia (USA) – tackle infringement
Lawrence Dallaglio (England) – tackle infringement
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle
Jo?o Uva (Portugal) – tackle infringement
Vilimoni Delasau (Fiji) – dangerous tackle
Alexandru Manta (Romania) – maul infringement
Drew Mitchell (Australia) – dangerous tackle
Nathan Sharpe (Australia) – tackle infringement
David Wallace (Ireland) – deliberate knock-on
Epeli Taione (Tonga) – tackle infringement
Toma Toke (Tonga) – dangerous tackle
Marco Bortolami (Italy) – punching

Citing with suspension

Phil Vickery (England) – trip, suspended for two weeks
Paul Emerick (USA) – dangerous tackle, suspended for five weeks
Schalk Burger (South Africa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for four weeks
Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) – dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.
Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) – head-butting, four weeks

Wales vs Japan

Penalties conceded

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

Total number of penalties: 14

Wales: 5
Japan: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Martyn Williams, Robinson)
Off-side: 2 (Hook*, Martyn Williams)
Discipline: 1 (Rhys Thomas)

Japan:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Imamura, Watanabe, Kiso)
Off-side: 2 (Watanabe, Onozawa)
Scrum: 2 (Matsubara 2)
Discipline: 1 (Imamura – man without ball)

Neither side missed a 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 Japan: 5/14

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 vs Japan

Wales:

Line-outs: 21 (1 lost)
Scrums: 8 (3 reset, 3 collpases, 1 penalty
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 0

Japan:

Line-outs: 9 (2 lost, 2 free kicks)
Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 5 collapses, 1 penalty, 1 free kick, 1 lost)
Free-kicks: 2 (1 scrum, 1 line-out)
Drop-outs: 2

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

Wales vs Japan: 72

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Wales vs Japan:

Wales: 11
Japan: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Wales: 11/0
Japan: 2/1

Totals per match

Penalties

France vs Argentina: 8+ 9 = 17
New Zealand vs Italy: 3 + 8 = 11
Australia vs Japan: 6 + 6 = 12
England vs USA: 10 + 9 = 19
Wales vs Canada: 6 + 9 = 15
South Africa vs Samoa: 5 + 13 = 18
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 14 = 22
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 14 = 19
Argentina vs Georgia: 6 + 9 = 15
USA vs Tonga: 8 + 15 = 23
Fiji vs Japan: 12 + 6 = 18
Italy vs Romania: 8 + 15 = 23
England vs South Africa: 9 + 5 = 14
Portugal vs New Zealand: 10 + 5 = 15
Wales vs Australia: 5 + 11 = 16
Ireland vs Georgia: 8 + 5 = 13
Canada vs Fiji: 11 + 10 = 21
Samoa vs Tonga: 12 + 10 = 22
France vs Namibia: 4 + 5 = 9
Scotland vs Romania: 10 + 7 = 17
Italy vs Portugal: 10 + 10 = 20
Wales vs Japan: 5 + 9 = 14

Tries

France vs Argentina: 0 + 1 = 1
New Zealand vs Italy: 11 + 2 = 13
Australia vs Japan: 13 + 0 = 13
England vs USA: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Canada: 5 + 3 = 8
South Africa vs Samoa: 8 + 1 = 9
Scotland vs Portugal: 8 + 1 = 9
Ireland vs Namibia: 5 + 2 = 7
Argentina vs Georgia: 4 + 0 = 4
USA vs Tonga: 2 + 3 = 5
Fiji vs Japan: 4 + 3 = 7
Italy vs Romania: 2 + 2 = 4
England vs South Africa: 0 + 3 = 3
Portugal vs New Zealand: 1 + 16 = 17
Wales vs Australia: 1 + 4 = 5
Ireland vs Georgia: 2 + 1 = 3
Canada vs Fiji: 1 + 4 = 5
Samoa vs Tonga: 0 + 1 = 1
France vs Namibia: 13 + 1 = 14
Scotland vs Romania: 6 + 0 = 6
Italy vs Portugal: 3 + 1 = 4
Wales vs Japan: 11 + 2 = 13

Stoppages

France vs Argentina: 71
New Zealand vs Italy: 58
Australia vs Japan: 60
England vs USA: 81
Wales vs Canada: 80
South Africa vs Samoa: 82
Scotland vs Portugal: 83
Ireland vs Namibia: 87
Argentina vs Georgia: 77
USA vs Tonga: 83
Fiji vs Japan: 71
Italy vs Romania: 87
England vs South Africa: 91
Portugal vs New Zealand: 72
Wales vs Australia: 79
Ireland vs Georgia: 89
Canada vs Fiji: 71
Samoa vs Tonga: 90
France vs Namibia: 69
Scotland vs Romania: 90
Italy vs Portugal: 87
Wales vs Japan: 72

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 = 15
Australia: 6 + 11 = 17
Canada: 9 + 11 = 20
England: 10 + 9 = 19
Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22
France: 8 + 4 = 12
Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14
Ireland: 5 + 8 = 14
Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26
Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 = 21
Namibia: 14 + 5 = 19
New Zealand: 3 + 5 = 8
Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 = 34
Romania: 15 + 7 = 22
Samoa: 13 + 12 = 25
Scotland: 8 + 10 = 18
South Africa: 5 + 5 = 10
Tonga: 13 + 10 = 23
USA: 9 + 9 = 18
Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 = 16

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 = 5
Australia: 13 + 4 = 17
Canada: 3 + 1 = 4
England: 3 + 0 = 3
Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8
France: 0 + 13 = 13
Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1
Ireland: 5 + 2 = 7
Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7
Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 = 5
Namibia: 2 + 1 = 3
New Zealand: 11 + 16 = 27
Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Romania: 2 + 0 = 2
Samoa: 1 + 0 = 1
Scotland: 7 + 6 = 13
South Africa: 8 + 3 = 11
Tonga: 3 + 1 = 4
USA: 1 + 2 = 3
Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17

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