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Team England PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ROUND 4 Team England PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 RESULTS ENGLAND WALES Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 France 17-24 L 1 Italy 42-0 W 2 Scotland 13-6 W 2 Ireland 14-24 L 3 Ireland 24-12 W 3 France 23-27 L HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 54 4 POINTS 79 2 18.0 4 POINTS / MATCH 26.3 2 6 4 TRIES SCORED 9 2 2.00 4 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 3.00 2 55.6% 5 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 57.0% 4 AGAINST 42 5 POINTS CONCEDED 51 3 14.0 5 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 17.0 3 5 4 TRIES CONCEDED 7 2 1.67 4 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 2.33 2 59.5% 3 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 68.6% 2 TYPES OF PLAY England Wales 48.0% 50.5% 38.3% 41.0% 13.7% 8.5% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Owen Farrell 24 POINTS Dan Biggar 33 Jonny May 2 TRIES SCORED Josh Adams 3 Jonny May 2 TRY ASSISTS Dan Biggar 3 Thomas Curry 29 CARRIES Hadleigh Parkes 38 Jonny May 170.3 METRES CARRIED Hadleigh Parkes 213.0 Owen Farrell 3 OFFLOADS Johnny McNicholl 7 Maro Itoje 55 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Justin Tipuric 53 Maro Itoje 14 DOMINANT TACKLES Alun Wyn Jones 6 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES England Wales Try & Conversion Scored Try & Missed Conversion Penalty Try Scored 25.0% 27.6% Penalty Shot Scored Points / Points / Drop Goal Scored Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: 0.0% Other Opp 22 Entries 2.00 2.41 8.3% 58.6% 0.0% 66.7% 0.0% 10.3% 0.0% Opponent 22 entries / match 8.0 Opponent 22 entries / match 9.7 Rank 3 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 calcu- lated per ‘play’ and not simply crossing the 22m line on multiple occasions in a play. POWER GAME England Wales 51.5% 47.0% 30.2% 30.0% 22.8% 18.5% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 470 Metres carried / match 707 Line breaks / match 1.3 Line breaks / match 5.7 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 Wales % Tackles dominant 8.6% 13.5% 8.3% 8.3% % Turnover Tackles 2.0% 2.7% % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 75.2% 81.4% 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 ENGLAND vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - Of the 20 Guinness Six Nations meetings between the sides, England have won 13 games while Wales have won just seven times. - The sides’ last Guinness Six Nations meeting was in Cardiff in February 2019, where Wales ended England’s five-game winning streak thanks to a 21-13 victory over Eddie Jones’ side. - Six of Wales’ seven victories over England in the Guinness Six Nations have been by a winning margin of a converted try or more. The only Welsh win over England in the competition to have been by fewer than seven points was in February 2005 (Eng- land 9-11 Wales). - Wales’ last Guinness Six Nations trip to Twickenham produced just six Welsh points – which was both the lowest Welsh return in a game against England in the competition and the total lowest points scored between the sides in Guinness Six Nations history (18). - In the four games in which England and Wales have faced off in Round 4 of the Guinness Six Nations, England have won all four matches by an aggregate score of 135-70. COMMON STATISTICS - Wales lead the Guinness Six Nations in terms of opposition 22 entries per game. Their 9.7 visits per match is the highest mark, 1.7 more visits more than the third-ranking English tally of 8.0. - The Welsh pack manage to produce 2.41 points per opposition 22 entry compared to England’s 2.00 - with Wales finding points in 41.4% of their trips inside their opponent’s 22. England have been scoring in just one in every three visits (33.3%). - While Wales (30.0%) and England (30.2%) lose metres in roughly the same share of their carries, Wales (707m) average over 200 metres per match more on the ground than England (470m) per game in the Guinness Six Nations. They have also produced over four times more line breaks (5.7) per match than their English counterparts (1.3). - England have excelled in the tackle in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations. They miss with slightly more of their tackles (8.6%) than the Welsh (8.3%), but they do turn the ball over (2.7%) more often as well as boasting 13.5% of their tackles registering as domi- nant - over 5% more than Wales (8.3%). - A key advantage for England should come at the lineout, as the English boast 14 stolen lineouts thus far in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations - twice as many as any other nation - and seven times more than the Welsh pair of steals, which is a Championship’s lowest total. ENGLAND STATISTICS - With a win over Wales, England would record their fifth Triple Crown success of the Guinness Six Nations era, putting them level with Ireland on five. - England have tasted defeat just twice in their last 24 Guinness Six Nations matches at home, including a 19-12 defeat to Wales in February 2012. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ENGLAND STATISTICS - Of the three players to record more than 10 dominant tackles in the Championship thus far, two of them are English: Maro Itoje (14 - the 2020 Guinness Six Nations leader) and Sam Underhill (11). - The English pack restrict opponents at the breakdown, as the collective average time to clear a ruck in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations against them is 4.49 seconds - a full second more than their opponents (3.38). - England’s George Ford leads the Guinness Six Nations in both total kicks (35) - two more than any other player - and total kick- ing metres (1,183m). WALES STATISTICS - Wales have lost their last two Guinness Six Nations matches. They haven’t lost three matches in a row in the Championship since a run of five straight defeats between 2006 and 2007. - Wales have scored 14 or more points in their last 11 Guinness Six Nations meetings. The last side to hold them to fewer was England in February 2018 - a 12-6 defeat at Twickenham. - Wales are the only team in this year’s Guinness Six Nations not to be penalised for being offside. No sides have fewer penalties awarded against them in the maul (1) or foul play (1) than the Welsh either as their 22 total penalties conceded is the fewest in the competition. - Dan Biggar (91.7%) has the highest goal-kicking success rate in the 2020 Guinness Six Nations among players to have attempt- ed four kicks or more, notching 28 points from the boot. - Wales have lost one in every five of their contested scrums in the Guinness Six Nations thus far - the worst rate of any side. They’ve also seen a Championship-high nine scrums reset. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT ENGLAND STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED ENGLAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 54 4 18.4 Points scored / match 18.0 4 18.4 Tries scored 6 4 2.17 Tries scored / match 2.00 4 2.17 % Points scored from tries 55.6% 5 58.9% Conversion success % 100.0% 1 74.4% Successful penalties / match 1.33 4 1.44 Penalty shot success % 57.1% 5 70.3% POINTS PER MATCH 24 17 13 1 2 3 W L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 7 (13.0%) 11'-20' 3 (5.6%) Try-From Lineout 4 (66.67%) 21'-30' 7 (13.0%) 31'-HT 3 (5.6%) Try-From Scrum 1 (16.67%) HT-50' 0 (0.0%) 51'-60' 7 (13.0%) 61'-70' 19 (35.2%) Try-From Turnover 1 (16.67%) 71'-80' 8 (14.8%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT KICKS AT GOAL ENGLAND - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 KICK LOCATIONS LAST 20 KICKS Opponent Minute Player Ireland 64 Owen Farrell Conversion made 40 Owen Farrell Penalty made 25 Owen Farrell Conversion made 9 Owen Farrell Conversion made Scotland 77 Owen Farrell Penalty made 71 Owen Farrell Conversion made 66 Owen Farrell Penalty missed 39 George Ford Drop missed 27 Owen Farrell Penalty missed 11 Owen Farrell Penalty made 9 Owen Farrell Penalty missed France 80 Owen Farrell Penalty made 65 Owen Farrell Conversion made 58 Owen Farrell Conversion made CONVERSIONS Owen Farrell Made: 6 6 (100.0%) Rank: 2 PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL Owen Farrell 3 (42.9%) Made: 4 Rank: 4 4 (57.1%) Ranks across total successful kicks ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020.
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