Statistics - RWC, Day 15

There were two matches thrilling matches on this day - Canada and Japan drew when Japan scored a try in injury time and converted from far out. In the other match Romania came from behind to win when they scored a try with eight minutes to play.. We give some stats.

We also give some Rugby World Cup stats accumulatively.

Sanctions

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

There was a yellow card on this day - for Pat Riordan, the Candaian hooker for stanping.

There was also the suspension of Brian Lima, cited for a high tackle on Jonny Wilkinson - a sad end to the World Cup for a man who had been to five World Cups. Samoa has appealed aginst his sentence.

There was also the citing of Frans Steyn of South Africa for biting, though there was pohtographic evidence that Jospeh Vaka's finger was at no stage near Steyn's mouth but tucked into Steyn's jersey as he pulled Steyn to ground. It may just be that the wrong player was cited. Steyn was exonerated - after a fashion.

Could a player be cited for false accusation?

Recipients of red cards so far

Hale T Pole (Tonga) - foul play, suspended for 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

Paul O'Connell (Ireland) - persistent infringement at a maul

Damien Traille (France) - twice stopping a tapped penalty within 10 metres

Francois Steyn (South Africa) - fighting

Joseph Vaka (Tonga) - fighting

Bryan Habana (South Africa) - tackle infringement

Pat Riordan (Canada) - feet on player

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, reduced on appeal to two weeks

Alfie Vaeluaga (Samoa) - dangerous tackle, suspended for one week.

Juan Severino Somoza (Portugal) - head-butting, four weeks

Brian Lima (Samoa) - dangerous tackle, three weeks

Penalties conceded

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

(I)Canada vs Japan

Total number of penalties: 19

Canada: 11

Japan: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Canada:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Yukes, Burak, Smith)

Off-side: 4 (Undetermined, James, Thiel, Kleeberger)

Discipline: 4 (James - obstruction; Riordan - stamping; Culpan - late obstruction; Williams - hitting ball out of play)

Japan:

Tackle/ruck: 6 (Makiri, Robins, Ono, Miuchi, Onishi, O'Reilly)

Off-side: 1 (Matsubara)

Discipline: 1 (Loamanu - late obstruction)

Neither side kicked 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: 9/19

Canada vs Japan:

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.

Canada vs Japan

Canada:

Line-outs: 18 (2 lost, 1 skew, 2 free kicks)

Scrums: 13

Free-kicks: 2 (1 line-out, 1 scrum)

Drop-outs: 0

Japan:

Line-outs: 25 (4 lost, 1 skew)

Scrums: 13 (1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 1 (line-out)

Drop-outs: 0

It is remarkable that not one scrum was reset.

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

Canada vs Japan: 91

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Canada vs Japan:

Canada: 2

Japan: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Canada: 2/0

Japan: 2/0

(ii) Portugal vs Romania

Total number of penalties: 13

Portugal: 8

Romania: 5

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Portugal:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Jo?o Uva, Correia)

Off-side: 1 (Duarte Cardoso Pinto)

Scrum: 2 (Cordeiro 2)

Discipline: 3 (Goncalo Uva - man without ball; Coutinho - man without ball; Penalva - collpasing maul)

Romania:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Dimofte, Corodeanu, Socol*)

Off-side: 1 (Tonita)

Scrum: 1 (Balan)

Neither side missed a penalty kick at goal.

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties:

Portugal vs Romania: 5/13

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.

Portugal vs Romania

Portugal:

Line-outs: 17 (5 lost, 1 quick, 1 free kick)

Scrums: 15 (2 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost, 1 wheel, 1 free kick, 1 penalty)

Free-kicks: 3 (1 mark, 1 line-out, 1 scrum)

Drop-outs: 1

Romania:

Line-outs: 25 (3 lost)

Scrums: 11 (1 collapse, 1 penalty)

Free-kicks: 2 (marks)

Drop-outs: 2

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

Portugal vs Romania: 92

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Portugal vs Romania:

Portugal: 1

Romania: 2

Tries/penalties scored

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

Portugal: 1/1

Romania: 2/0

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

France vs Ireland: 11 + 14 = 25

South Africa vs Tonga: 10 + 9 = 19

England vs Samoa: 9 + 9 = 18

Argentina vs Namibia: 5 + 11 = 16

New Zealand vs Scotland: 5 + 8 = 13

Canada vs Japan: 11 + 8 = 19

Portugal vs Romania: 8 + 5 = 13

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

France vs Ireland: 2 + 0 = 2

South Africa vs Tonga: 4 + 3 = 7

England vs Samoa: 4 + 1 = 5

Argentina vs Namibia: 9 + 0 = 9

New Zealand vs Scotland: 6 + 0 = 6

Canada vs Japan: 2 + 2 = 4

Portugal vs Romania: 1 + 2 = 3

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

France vs Ireland: 100

South Africa vs Tonga: 72

England vs Samoa: 68

Argentina vs Namibia: 80

New Zealand vs Scotland: 87

Canada vs Japan: 91

Portugal vs Romania: 92

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 + 5 = 21

Australia: 6 + 11 = 17

Canada: 9 + 11 + 11 = 31

England: 10 + 9 + 9 = 28

Fiji: 12 + 10 = 22

France: 8 + 4 + 11 = 23

Georgia: 9 + 5 = 14

Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28

Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 = 26

Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 + 8 = 29

Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 = 30

New Zealand: 3 + 5 + 5 = 13

Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 42

Romania: 15 + 7 + 5 = 27

Samoa: 13 + 12 + 9 = 34

Scotland: 8 + 10 + 8 = 26

South Africa: 5 + 5 + 10 = 20

Tonga: 13 + 10 + 9 = 32

USA: 9 + 9 = 18

Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 = 16

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 + 9 = 14

Australia: 13 + 4 = 17

Canada: 3 + 1 + 2 = 6

England: 3 + 0 + 4 = 7

Fiji: 4 + 4 = 8

France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15

Georgia: 0 + 1 = 1

Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7

Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 = 7

Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 7

Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 = 3

New Zealand: 11 + 16 + 6 = 33

Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4

Romania: 2 + 0 + 2 = 4

Samoa: 1 + 0 + 1 = 2

Scotland: 7 + 6 + 0 = 13

South Africa: 8 + 3 + 4 = 15

Tonga: 3 + 1 + 3 = 7

USA: 1 + 2 = 3

Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 = 17