Statistics - RWC, Day 18

Two more quarter-finalists were decided, both in thrillers when Fiji just beat Wales and Scotland just beat Italy. We have some statistics from the four matches on this day.

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 were sanctionary cards on this day for Akapusi Qera of Fiji, Mauro Bergamasco of Italy and Nathan Hines of Scotland. Bergamasco gave away three penalties in the first eight minutes of the match, the third an early tackle in a potentially try-scoring situation for Scotland.

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

Tasi Mounga (USA) - tackle infringement

Silao Vaisola Sefo (Samoa) - tackling man without the ball

Akapusi Qera (Fiji) - kicking opponent

Mauro Bergamasco (Italy) - tackling man without the ball

Nathan Hines (Scotland) - high tackle.

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) New Zealand vs Romania

Total number of penalties: 15

New Zealand: 6

Romania: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

New Zealand:

Tackle/ruck: 5 (Robinson, Somerville, Ellis, Tialata, Jack)

Off-side: 1 (Hore)

Romania:

Tackle/ruck: 8 (Corodeanu 2, Manta 2, Tonita 2, Ratiu, Ursache)

Off-side: 1 (Tonita)

Neither side 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: 13/15

New Zealand vs Romania:

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.

New Zealand vs Romania

New Zealand:

Line-outs: 14 (1 lost, 1 skew, 2 quick)

Scrums: 9 (3 reset, 3 collapses)

Free-kicks: 0

Drop-outs: 0

Romania:

Line-outs: 9 (1 skew)

Scrums: 7 (3 resets, 4 collapses, 1 wheel)

Free-kicks: 0

Drop-outs: 0

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

New Zealand vs Romania: 60

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

New Zealand vs Romania:

New Zealand: 13

Romania: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

New Zealand: 13/0

Romania: 1/1

Australia vs Canada

Total number of penalties: 19

Australia: 10

Canada: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Australia:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Smith* 2, Ashley Cooper*, Hardman)

Off-side: 3 (Hugh McMeniman, Mark Chisholm 2)

Scrum: 1 (Baxter)

Discipline: 2 (Tuqiri - obstruction; Chisholm - air tackle)

Canada:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Stephen* 2, Riordan, Daypuck)

Off-side: 3 (Snow, Yukes 2)

Discipline: 2 (James - obstruction; Yukes - swinging arm)

Neither side 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: 8/19

Australia vs Canada:

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.

(ii) Australia vs Canada

Australia:

Line-outs: 13 (1 skew)

Scrums: 14 (5 reset, 4 collapses, 1 wheel, 1 penalty)

Free-kicks: 0

Drop-outs: 0

Canada:

Line-outs: 18 (6 lost, 1 skew, 1 penalty)

Scrums: 14 (1 reset, 1 collapse, 1 wheel)

Free-kicks: 2 (marks)

Drop-outs: 0

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

Australia vs Canada: 86

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Australia vs Canada:

Australia: 6

Canada: 0

Tries/penalties scored

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

Australia: 6/1

Canada: 0/2

(iii) Wales vs Fiji

Total number of penalties: 22

Wales: 8

Fiji: 14

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Wales:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Popham*, Horsman*, Evans, Mark Jones*)

Off-side: 2 (Stephen Jones, Alun-Wyn Jones*)

Scrum: 2 (Jenkins)

Discipline: 1 (Phillips - obstruction)

Fiji:

Tackle/ruck: 4 (Koyamaibole, Koto*, Rabeni, Sauturaga)

Off-side: 3 (Qera, Leawere, Rabeni)

Scrum: 2 (Dewes, Railomo)

Discipline: 5 (Little - high tackle; Leawere - late tackle; Qera - kick; Rabeni - high tackle; Ratuvou - not 10m)

Wales missed two penalty kicks at goal, Fiji one.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 8/22

Wales vs Fiji:

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 Fiji

Wales:

Line-outs: 12 (1 lost, 1 skew)

Scrums: 11 (2 resets, 2 collapses, 2 penalties, 1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 2 (scrums)

Drop-outs: 1

Fiji:

Line-outs: 10

Scrums: 5 (4 resets, 3 collapses, 1 wheel, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 0

Drop-outs: 1

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

Wales vs Fiji: 66

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Wales vs Fiji:

Wales: 5

Fiji: 4

Tries/penalties scored

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

Wales: 5/1

Fiji: 4/4

(iv) Scotland vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 18

Scotland: 9

Italy: 9

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

* = points conceded

Scotland:

Tackle/ruck: 2 (Hogg, Blair)

Off-side: 3 (Murray, Taylor, Smith)

Discipline: 4 (White - obstruction; Hines - high tackle; Murray - collapsing maul; Brown -collapsing maul)

Italy:

Tackle/ruck: 3 (Mauro Bergamasco** 2, Perugini)

Off-side: 3 (Sole, Bortolussi, Lo Cicero)

Discipline: 3 (Mauro Bergamasco - man without ball; Troncon - high tackle; Mirco Bergamasco* - man without ball)

Italy missed three penalty kicks at goal.

Tackles/Penalties

This gives the number of penalties at ruck/tackle as a fraction of the total number of penalties: 5/18

Scotland vs Italy:

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.

Scotland vs Italy

Scotland:

Line-outs: 23 (3 lost)

Scrums: 6 (2 reset, 2 collapses, 1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 2 (marks)

Drop-outs: 4

Italy:

Line-outs: 18 (3 lost, 1 quick)

Scrums: 9 (5 reset, 9 collapses, 1 free kick)

Free-kicks: 4 (2 scrums, 2 marks)

Drop-outs: 0

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

Scotland vs Italy: 91

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

Scotland vs Italy:

Scotland: 0

Italy: 1

Tries/penalties scored

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

Scotland: 0/6

Italy: 1/3

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

Georgia vs Namibia: 11 + 11 = 22

Samoa vs USA: 8 + 7 = 15

England vs Tonga: 8 + 6 = 14

New Zealand vs Romania: 6 + 9 = 15

Australia vs Canada: 10 + 9 = 19

Wales vs Fiji: 8 + 14 = 22

Scotland vs Italy: 9 + 9 = 18

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

Georgia vs Namibia: 3 + 0 = 3

Samoa vs USA: 3 + 2 = 5

England vs Tonga: 4 + 2 = 6

New Zealand vs Romania: 13 + 1 = 14

Australia vs Canada: 6 + 0 = 6

Wales vs Fiji: 5 + 4 = 9

Scotland vs Italy: 0 + 1 = 1

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

Georgia vs Namibia: 88

Samoa vs USA: 78

England vs Tonga: 72

New Zealand vs Romania: 60

Australia vs Canada: 86

Wales vs Fiji: 66

Scotland vs Italy: 91

Penalties conceded per team

Argentina: 9 + 6 + 5 = 21

Australia: 6 + 11 + 8 + 10 = 35

Canada: 9 + 11 + 11 + 9 = 40

England: 10 + 9 + 9 + 8 = 36

Fiji: 12 + 10 + 4 + 14 = 40

France: 8 + 4 + 11 = 23

Georgia: 9 + 5 + 11 = 25

Ireland: 5 + 8 + 14 = 28

Italy: 8 + 8 + 10 + 9 = 35

Japan: 6 + 6 + 9 + 8 = 29

Namibia: 14 + 5 + 11 + 11 = 41

New Zealand: 3 + 5 + 5 + 6 = 19

Portugal: 14 + 10 + 10 + 8 = 42

Romania: 15 + 7 + 5 + 9 = 36

Samoa: 13 + 12 + 9 + 8 = 42

Scotland: 8 + 10 + 8 + 9 = 35

South Africa: 5 + 5 + 10 = 20

Tonga: 13 + 10 + 9 + 6 = 38

USA: 9 + 9 + 7 = 25

Wales: 6 + 5 + 5 + 8 = 24

Tries per team

Argentina: 1 + 4 + 9 = 14

Australia: 13 + 4 + 9 + 6 = 32

Canada: 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 = 6

England: 3 + 0 + 4 + 4 = 11

Fiji: 4 + 4 + 2 + 4 = 14

France: 0 + 13 + 2 = 15

Georgia: 0 + 1 + 3 = 4

Ireland: 5 + 2 + 0 = 7

Italy: 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 = 8

Japan: 0 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 7

Namibia: 2 + 1 + 0 + 0 = 3

New Zealand: 11 + 16 + 6 + 13 = 46

Portugal: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4

Romania: 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 45

Samoa: 1 + 0 + 1 + 3 = 5

Scotland: 7 + 6 + 0 + 0 = 13

South Africa: 8 + 3 + 4 = 15

Tonga: 3 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 9

USA: 1 + 2 + 2 = 5

Wales: 5 + 1 + 11 + 5 = 22