Team Ireland PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND vs SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ROUND 1 Team Ireland PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND vs SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 RESULTS IRELAND SCOTLAND Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 England 20-32 L 1 Italy 33-20 W 2 Scotland 22-13 W 2 Ireland 13-22 L 3 Italy 26-16 W 3 France 10-27 L 4 France 26-14 W 4 Wales 11-18 L 5 Wales 7-25 L 5 England 38-38 D HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 101 4 POINTS 105 3 20.2 4 POINTS / MATCH 21.0 3 14 2 TRIES SCORED 14 2 2.8 2 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 2.8 2 69.3% 1 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 66.7% 3 AGAINST 100 5 POINTS CONCEDED 125 2 20.0 5 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 25.0 2 10 5 TRIES CONCEDED 17 2 2.00 5 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 3.4 2 50.0% 6 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 68.0% 2 TYPES OF PLAY Ireland Scotland 52.9% 52.9% 41.1% 40.2% 6.0% 6.8% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Jonathan Sexton 23 POINTS Greig Laidlaw 21 Keith Earls 3 TRIES SCORED Blair Kinghorn 3 Conor Murray 2 TRY ASSISTS Finn Russell 4 James Ryan 62 CARRIES Josh Strauss 51 Jacob Stockdale 476.9 METRES CARRIED Blair Kinghorn 492.6 Bundee Aki 2 OFFLOADS Finn Russell 5 Peter O'Mahony 50 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Allan Dell 83 Bundee Aki 5 DOMINANT TACKLES Jamie Ritchie 12 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND vs SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES Ireland Scotland Try & Conversion Scored Try & Missed Conversion 25.0% 21.7% Penalty Try Scored Penalty Shot Scored Points / Points / Drop Goal Scored Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: Other Opp 22 Entries 2.23 2.22 8.7% 6.8% 60.9% 0.0% 63.6% 0.0% 8.7% 0.0% 0.0% Opponent 22 entries / match 8.8 Opponent 22 entries / match 9.2 Rank 3 Rank 2 The number of occasions a team has entered the opposition 22 and how many points they have scored with the entries. The 22 entry will also be calcu- lated per ‘play’ and not simply crossing the 22m line on multiple occasions in a play. POWER GAME Ireland Scotland 46.6% 47.5% 30.6% 33.3% 22.7% 19.3% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 757 Metres carried / match 873 Line breaks / match 3.6 Line breaks / match 4.4 The Power Game determines the direct impact of a team that dominates action areas including effectiveness of reaching the gainline, metres carried, and line breaks. DOMINANT TACKLES / TACKLE COUNT Ireland Scotland % Tackles dominant 10.6% 11.0% 1.1% 1.2% % Turnover Tackles % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 81.3% 79.9% This stat shows the defensive strength and structure of the team through Dominant Tackles which put pressure on the attacking team ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND vs SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - In the sides’ 20 meetings in the Guinness Six Nations, Ireland have run out victorious on 16 occasions, losing just four times to Scotland. Only one of those wins came in Dublin - a 23-20 win thanks to a 78th minute Dan Parks penalty. - The highest points tally put up by Scotland in the Guinness Six Nations against Ireland is 32 points - a total they managed in 2001. Ireland have put up 33 points or more in the Championship on 23 occasions - never failing to claim victory. - Ireland have scored 316 points against Scotland in Dublin during the Guinness Six Nations - exactly double the Scottish total of 158 in those games. - Conor Murray, Keith Earls and Jacob Stockdale have combined for nine tries against Scotland in the Guinness Six Nations over the last four meetings - which is a try more than Scotland managed as a team in those same clashes. - Scotland have outscored Ireland 52-18 in the first halves of games in which they’ve gone on to beat them in the Guinness Six Nations, in- cluding a 17-0 half-time scoreline in 2001 thanks to tries from Budge Pountney and Tom Smith. COMMON STATISTICS - Ireland and Scotland boasted the most total active possession time in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, as Ireland’s mark of 110.7 minutes led all nations. Scotland trailed just behind on 108.7 minutes - but their figure was almost ten minutes more than any other side (Italy 99.3 minutes). - Scotland were very much a second-half team in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, with 41% of their total points coming in the 20-minute spell after the break. However, Ireland conceded just six points total in this same timeframe, never conceding a try in those 20 minutes. - Ireland landed their biggest blows in the opening 20 minutes of games in the 2019 Championship, which accounted for their biggest re- turn in any 20-minute segment (29 points) - the same quarter in which Scotland conceded the most points (42.4%). - Scotland just edged Ireland in terms of opposition 22 entries - averaging 9.2 per match in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, compared to Ireland’s 8.8. Scotland also converted 39.1% of their opposition 22 entries into points - 30.4% of which resulted in tries. Ireland, meanwhile, scored following 36.4% of their opposition 22 entries. Ireland averaged 2.23 points per entry, while Scotland averaged 2.22. - Ireland totalled over 30 tackles fewer per game than any other side in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - and 66 fewer than Scotland; howev- er, there was very little between them in the dominant tackle share, as 7% of Ireland’s tackles were dominant, just below Scotland’s mark of 7.8%. - Despite leading Ireland in metres carried per match (873 to 757) and line breaks per match (4.4 to 4.6), Scotland boasted similar success to the Irish at the gainline in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations. Scotland moved forward at the gainline with 47.5% of their carry attempts, marginally better than Ireland’s 46.6% success rate. Scotland were knocked backwards on one-third of their carries, though - while Ireland had a slightly better ratio (30.6%). IRELAND STATISTICS - Ireland have won just one of their last three Guinness Six Nations openers, having failed to win just three round one fixtures before this in the Championship. - England are the only visitors to come to Dublin in the last seven Guinness Six Nations tournaments and come away with a win, as they did so in the 2019 opening fixture and round 2 of the 2013 Championship. - Peter O’Mahony claimed 31 lineouts in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations. Not only is this the highest total, but it was also 13 more than any other player managed across the five games, as both Federico Ruzza and George Kruis (18) came in second. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND vs SCOTLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 IRELAND STATISTICS - Each team had just a single player record 50 or more carries in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, but Ireland did have four players carry the ball 45 times or more - James Ryan (62), Bundee Aki (47), Tadhg Furlong (47) and CJ Stander (45) - which was the most among all teams in the Championship. - Ireland’s 41 tackle breaks led all teams in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, as six different players managed three or more across the five games: Jacob Stockdale (7), David Kilcoyne (4), Jordan Larmour (4), Bundee Aki (3), Garry Ringrose (3) and Rob Kearney (3). SCOTLAND STATISTICS - Scotland ended the 2019 Championship with their best-ever points total in a single Guinness Six Nations game - a 38-38 draw with Eng- land in the final game of the 2019 Championship. However, they had won each of the seven previous games in which they scored 30 or more points before this clash. - Scotland have won two of their last three Guinness Six Nations openers, including a 27-22 win over Ireland in 2017, after winning just one of their previous 17 in the Championship, as they have failed to score more than 10 points in 12 of their 20 first-round contests. - Blair Kinghorn led all players in terms of carry metres in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations with 493 - just ahead of Ireland’s Jacob Stockdale. Kinghorn tallied over 230m more than any of his team mates in the competition last year, as his three tries also tied with Darcy Graham for most in the squad. - Three players made 50 or more defensive ruck arrivals during the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - two of them were Scottish: Jamie Ritchie (61) and Simon Berghan (54). Five different Scottish players tallied 35 or more, as no other team in the competition had more than three players record as many. - While only France (48) conceded more penalties than Scotland (43) in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, Scotland were penalised just twice for offside, which was three times fewer than any other team in the Championship. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT IRELAND STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED IRELAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 101 4 22.5 Points scored / match 20.2 4 22.5 Tries scored 14 2 2.80 Tries scored / match 2.80 2 2.80 % Points scored from tries 69.3% 1 63.2% Conversion success % 78.6% 3 69.9% Successful penalties / match 0.60 6 1.47 Penalty shot success % 100.0% 1 75.9% POINTS PER MATCH 26 26 22 20 7 1 2 3 4 5 W L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 12 (11.9%) Try-From Counter Attack 1 (7.14%) 11'-20' 17 (16.8%) 21'-30' 17 (16.8%) Try-From Lineout 9 (64.29%) 31'-HT 7 (6.9%) Try-From Scrum 1 (7.14%) HT-50' 5 (5.0%) 51'-60' 19 (18.8%) Try-From Tap Penalty 1 (7.14%) 61'-70' 10 (9.9%) Try-From Turnover 2 (14.29%) 71'-80' 14 (13.9%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020.