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Team England PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs ITALY GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 ROUND 2 Team PRE-MATCH REPORT England ENGLAND vs ITALY GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 RESULTS ENGLAND ITALY Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 Scotland 6-11 L 1 France 10-50 L HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 6 6 POINTS 10 5 6.0 6 POINTS / MATCH 10.0 5 0 6 TRIES SCORED 1 3 0.000 6 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 1.000 3 0.0% 6 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 50.0% 2 AGAINST 11 4 POINTS CONCEDED 50 1 11.0 4 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 50.0 1 1 3 TRIES CONCEDED 7 1 1.00 3 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 7.00 1 45.5% 4 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 70.0% 1 TYPES OF PLAY England Italy 52.5% 37.2% 44.1% 41.2% 18.6% 6.3% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Owen Farrell 6 POINTS Luca Sperandio 5 Anthony Watson 0 TRIES SCORED Luca Sperandio 1 Anthony Watson 0 TRY ASSISTS Carlo Canna 0 Elliot Daly 12 CARRIES Juan Ignacio Brex 15 Elliot Daly 85.9 METRES CARRIED Monty Ioane 136.9 Billy Vunipola 1 OFFLOADS Jacopo Trulla 2 Jonny Hill 20 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Michele Lamaro 12 Maro Itoje 2 DOMINANT TACKLES Luca Bigi 1 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs ITALY GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES England Italy Try & Conversion Scored 0.0% Try & Missed Conversion 0.0% Penalty Try Scored Penalty Shot Scored Points / Points / Drop Goal Scored Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: Other Opp 22 Entries 0.00 0.64 90.9% Opponent 22 entries / match 4.0 Opponent 22 entries / match 11.0 Rank 6 Rank 1 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 calculated .. POWER GAME England Italy 50.0% 44.9% 39.3% 30.4% 19.6% 15.9% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 384 Metres carried / match 957 Line breaks / match 0.0 Line breaks / match 7.0 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 England Italy % Tackles dominant 0.5% 0.9% % Turnover Tackles 15.1% 24.3% % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 72.2% 81.3% This stat shows the defensive strength and structure of the team through Dominant Tackles which put pressure on the attacking team ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs ITALY GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - England have won each of their 21 fixtures against Italy in the Six Nations, they are the only team yet to suffer defeat against the Azzurri in the Championship. - England have hosted Italy on 10 occasions in the Six Nations, winning each of those 10 fixtures by an average margin of 31 points and scoring 5.6 tries per game. - England have scored a tally of 109 tries against Italy in the Six Nations, no other team has scored 100+ tries against a single opponent in the tournament. - Italy have scored a tally of seven tries in their last three away games to England in the Six Nations - crossing the line at least twice in each of those games - after scoring eight tries in their first seven trips to Twickenham. - England have won each of their 27 Test meetings with Italy, keeping the Azzurri pointless the last time they visited England, 37-0 in Newcastle in September 2019. COMMON STATISTICS - Only Ireland (2.7s) recorded a quicker average ruck speed than Italy in Round 1 (3.0s), while England managed to slow their opponent’s ruck speed down more than any other nation (4.7s). - Italy made just 23 kicks in their match against France, the fewest of any team in Round 1 of the Six Nations, while only Scotland (43) made more kicks than England (35, level with Ireland). - England failed to make any linebreaks in the opening round of the Six Nations, while only France (8) made more than the Azzurri (7) in Round 1. - England (6) and Italy (9) were the only sides to win fewer than 10 penalties last weekend, while they conceded more penalties than any other nation (England 15, Italy 12). - Italy recorded 53% territory in their opening match against France, only Scotland had more in Round 1 (58%), while England had the least territory of any side (42%). ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs ITALY GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ENGLAND STATISTICS - England lost to Scotland at Twickenham on the opening weekend of this year’s Six Nations, they’ve not lost back-to-back games at home in the 5/6 Nations since 1983 (v France & Scotland). - England have won their Round 2 match in each of their previous 11 Six Nations campaigns, last losing their second game of the campaign back in 2009 (15-23 v Wales). - Since the start of the 2018 Six Nations England have won 80 of 82 scrums on their own feed in the Championship, the best success rate of any side in that time (98%). - Owen Farrell has scored 112 points against Italy in eight previous encounters with them, his average of 14 points per game is his best rate against anyone he has faced more than once; 15 of those 112 points have come from three tries, more than he has scored against the other Six Nations sides combined (1 v France and 1 v Scotland). - Jonny May has 31 tries for England, one more would leave him in standalone second spot on England’s top try scorers list behind just Rory Underwood (49, Will Greenwood and Ben Cohen both 31 tries too); he has just one try in seven previous matches against Italy however. ITALY STATISTICS - Italy managed a tackle success rate of just 76% against France in Round 1 of this year’s Six Nations, only once has a side had a worse rate than this in the Championship since 2007 (Italy 69% v France in 2017). - Three of the four players to make a round-high two offloads last weekend were Italians – Jacopo Trulla, Paolo Garbisi and Stephen Varney (also Antoine Dupont). - Italy’s Paolo Garbisi recorded 474 kicking metres against France last weekend, the most of any player in Round 1, despite Italy recording the fewest kicking metres of any team overall (819). - Only Ireland’s James Lowe (155) ran for more metres in Round 1 of this year’s Six Nations than Italian duo Monty Ioane (137) and Juan Ignacio Brex (132). - Italy’s Danilo Fischetti was one of five players to concede three penalties in the opening round of this year’s Six Nations, no player conceded more. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED ENGLAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 6 6 19.0 Points scored / match 6.0 6 19.0 Tries scored 0 6 2.00 Tries scored / match 0.00 6 2.00 % Points scored from tries 0.0% 6 52.6% Conversion success % 75.0% Successful penalties / match 2.00 3 2.00 Penalty shot success % 100.0% 1 85.7% POINTS PER MATCH 6 1 L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 0 (0.0%) 11'-20' 0 (0.0%) 21'-30' 0 (0.0%) 31'-HT 6 (100.0%) HT-50' 0 (0.0%) 51'-60' 0 (0.0%) 61'-70' 0 (0.0%) 71'-80' 0 (0.0%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT KICKS AT GOAL ENGLAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 KICK LOCATIONS LAST 20 KICKS Opponent Minute Player Scotland 39 Owen Farrell Penalty made 34 Owen Farrell Penalty made CONVERSIONS PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL Owen Farrell Made: 2 2 (100.0%) Rank: 2 Ranks across total successful kicks ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT PLAYER SCORING STATISTICS ENGLAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 GP MP Points Points / 80 Tries Con Pen Drop Anthony Watson 1 75 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ben Earl 1 13 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ben Youngs 1 55 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Beno Obano 1 9 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Billy Vunipola 1 57 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Courtney Lawes 1 28 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Dan Robson 1 25 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Elliot Daly 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ellis Genge 1 71 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 George Ford 1 11 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Harry Williams 1 18 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Henry Slade 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jamie George 1 55 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jonny Hill 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jonny May 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Luke Cowan-Dickie 1 25 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Mark Wilson 1 52 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Maro Itoje 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Max Malins 1 5 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ollie Lawrence 1 69 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Owen Farrell 1 80 6 6.0 0 0 2 0 Tom Curry 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Will Stuart 1 62 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021.