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Team Wales PRE-MATCH REPORT WALES vs FRANCE GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ROUND 3 Team Wales PRE-MATCH REPORT WALES vs FRANCE GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 RESULTS WALES FRANCE Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 Italy 42-0 W 1 England 24-17 W 2 Ireland 14-24 L 2 Italy 35-22 W HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 56 2 POINTS 59 1 28.0 2 POINTS / MATCH 29.5 1 7 2 TRIES SCORED 8 1 3.50 2 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 4.00 1 62.5% 3 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 67.8% 2 AGAINST 24 6 POINTS CONCEDED 39 2 12.0 6 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 19.5 2 4 3 TRIES CONCEDED 5 2 2.00 3 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 2.50 2 83.3% 1 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 64.1% 3 TYPES OF PLAY Wales France 52.5% 39.8% 46.8% 40.0% 7.7% 13.2% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Dan Biggar 15 POINTS Romain Ntamack 22 Josh Adams 3 TRIES SCORED Charles Ollivon 3 Dan Biggar 2 TRY ASSISTS Antoine Dupont 2 Hadleigh Parkes 24 CARRIES Gregory Alldritt 31 Leigh Halfpenny 152.6 METRES CARRIED Gregory Alldritt 177.8 Johnny McNicholl 4 OFFLOADS Antoine Dupont 6 Justin Tipuric 40 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Bernard le Roux 44 Alun Wyn Jones 5 DOMINANT TACKLES Bernard le Roux 8 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT WALES vs FRANCE GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES Wales France Try & Conversion Scored Try & Missed Conversion Penalty Try Scored 31.6% 31.3% 37.5% Penalty Shot Scored Points / Points / Drop Goal Scored Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: Other Opp 22 Entries 2.63 3.38 57.9% 0.0% 0.0% 12.5% 0.0% 18.8% 0.0% Opponent 22 entries / match 9.5 Opponent 22 entries / match 8.0 Rank 1 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 Wales France 50.3% 51.5% 32.1% 31.8% 17.6% 16.7% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 634 Metres carried / match 656 Line breaks / match 5.5 Line breaks / match 4.5 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 Wales France % Tackles dominant 7.2% 8.2% 9.2% 12.2% % Turnover Tackles 2.7% 1.6% % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 81.9% 77.0% 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 WALES vs FRANCE GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - Of the sides’ 20 meetings in the Guinness Six Nations, the results have been split evenly, with Wales and France boasting ten wins apiece. France have outscored the Welsh in those games by 424 points to 395. - Wales have claimed victory in seven of the last eight meetings in the Championship, with France’s sole win in that time coming in Paris - a two-point victory in March 2017. - None of the last five meetings between the sides have been decided by 10 points or more in the Guinness Six Nations, while three of the previous four ended with the sides separated by double-figure points totals. - Each side have won five times in Cardiff, while their last meeting there saw Wales run out single-point victors - the only time there’s been a single point between the sides in Guinness Six Nations history. - The teams have played in round three of the Guinness Six Nations on eight previous occasions - the results being split four wins apiece, with Wales outscoring France 169-155 in these games. COMMON STATISTICS Wales (9.5) and France (8.0) are the sides who lead the Guinness Six Nations in terms of opposition 22 entries per match. While the Welsh hold the slight advantage here, it’s France who produce a better points-per-entry ratio: 3.38 points compared to the Welsh average of 2.63 points. - Both sides are gaining metres in over half their carry attempts as France (51.5%) edge Wales (50.3%) in that category in the 2020 Championship. France have managed to convert their carries into slightly more metres than their opponents too, carrying for 656 metres per match in the competition compared to Wales’ 634 metres per contest. - While the Welsh are missing just 7.2% of their tackles (2% less than France) in the 2020 Championship, dominant tackles ac- count for just 8.2% of their overall made tackles - 4% less than the French total of 12.2%. - Wales (48.0%) and France (44.5%) have the two lowest possession totals in this year’s Guinness Six Nations Championship, with France (44.0%) also possessing the worst territorial advantage in the competition. - No side has scored more points in the final 20 minutes of this year’s Guinness Six Nations than Wales (23). The final 20 minutes is also the period in which France have conceded the majority of their points - 56.4% - the highest 20-minute points concession period of any team in the Championship. WALES STATISTICS - Wales’ defeat to Ireland ended an eight-game winning run in the Guinness Six Nations - their joint-longest such run in Champi- onship history. The 24 points they conceded were also the highest points tally an opposition has mustered against them since the 37-27 defeat to Ireland back in February 2018. This defeat was their last game before their eight-game winning run. - Wales’ last Guinness Six Nations home defeat to a side other than England or Ireland was almost exactly ten years ago - a 26-20 loss to France on February 26th, 2020. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT WALES vs FRANCE GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 WALES STATISTICS - Wales have won 100% of their mauls in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations - the leading mark among nations. The tournament av- erage is at just 83.3%. - Wales are averaging two turnover tackles (5.5) more than the 2020 Guinness Six Nations average (3.5) per game this campaign. Jarrod Evans has won 1.7 turnovers per match for the Welsh. FRANCE STATISTICS - With a victory, France could record four straight Guinness Six Nations wins for the first time since a run of eight consecutive successes between March 2009 and February 2011. - France have never won their opening three games of the Guinness Six Nations without going on to win the Championship (Three Grand Slams). - Bernard le Roux (44) has made more tackles than any other player in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations. The only other player to have reached the 40-tackle mark is Wales’ back row Justin Tipuric. - France have amassed 54 dominant tackles in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations thus far - 17 more than any other nation. The French are led by the joint-leading dominant tackler in the tournament - Bernard le Roux (8). - France possess the slowest ruck speed in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations, as they clear just 43.4% of their rucks in three seconds or fewer, compared to the tournament average of 54.3%. Their average ruck speed for the tournament is at 4.53 seconds. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT WALES STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED WALES - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 56 2 19.0 Points scored / match 28.0 2 19.0 Tries scored 7 2 2.17 Tries scored / match 3.50 2 2.17 % Points scored from tries 62.5% 3 57.0% Conversion success % 85.7% 2 73.1% Successful penalties / match 1.50 3 1.67 Penalty shot success % 100.0% 1 74.1% POINTS PER MATCH 42 14 1 2 W L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 3 (5.4%) ( ) 11'-20' 11 (19.6%) Try-From Counter Attack 1 14.29% 21'-30' 12 (21.4%) 31'-HT 2 (3.6%) Try-From Lineout 5 (71.43%) HT-50' 0 (0.0%) 51'-60' 5 (8.9%) - ( ) 61' 70' 2 3.6% Try-From Turnover 1 (14.29%) 71'-80' 21 (37.5%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT KICKS AT GOAL WALES - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 KICK LOCATIONS LAST 20 KICKS Opponent Minute Player Ireland 80 Leigh Halfpenny Conversion made 28 Dan Biggar Conversion made Italy 80 Leigh Halfpenny Conversion made 77 Leigh Halfpenny Conversion made 61 Dan Biggar Conversion made 31 Dan Biggar Conversion made 19 Dan Biggar Conversion missed 16 Dan Biggar Penalty made 11 Dan Biggar Penalty made 4 Dan Biggar Penalty made CONVERSIONS Dan Biggar Leigh Halfpenny 1 (25.0%) Made: 3 Made: 3 3 (100.0%) Rank: 2 Rank: 2 3 (75.0%) PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL Dan Biggar Made: 3 3 (100.0%) Rank: 3 Ranks across total successful kicks ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT PLAYER SCORING STATISTICS WALES - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 GP MP Points Points / 80 Tries Con Pen Drop Aaron Wainwright 2 128 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Adam Beard 1 9 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Alun Wyn Jones 2 160 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Cory Hill 1 24 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Dan Biggar 2 112 15 10.7 0 3 3 0 Dillon Lewis 2 127 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Gareth Davies 1 32 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 George North 2 160 5 2.5 1 0 0 0 Hadleigh Parkes 2 132 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jake Ball 2 127 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jarrod Evans 2 48 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Johnny McNicholl 2 124 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Josh Adams 2 105 15 11.4 3 0 0 0 Justin Tipuric 2 160 5 2.5 1 0 0 0 Ken Owens 2 137 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Leigh Halfpenny 2 160 6 3.0 0 3 0 0 Leon Brown 2 33 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Nick Tompkins 2 119 5 3.4 1 0 0 0 Rhys Carre 1 16 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Rhys Webb 1 19 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Rob Evans 1 24 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ross Moriarty 2 60 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Ryan Elias 2 23 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Taulupe Faletau 2 132 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Tomos Williams 2 109 5 3.7 1 0 0 0 Wyn Jones 2 120 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020.