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Team France PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 ROUND 5 Team PRE-MATCH REPORT France FRANCE vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 RESULTS FRANCE WALES Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 Italy 50-10 W 1 Ireland 21-16 W 2 Scotland 25-24 W 2 Ireland 15-13 W 3 England 40-24 W 4 England 20-23 L 4 Italy 48-7 W HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 85 4 POINTS 134 1 28.3 2 POINTS / MATCH 33.5 1 11 2 TRIES SCORED 17 1 3.67 2 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 4.3 1 64.7% 1 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 63.4% 2 AGAINST 46 1 POINTS CONCEDED 71 4 15.3 1 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 17.8 3 4 1 TRIES CONCEDED 7 3 1.33 1 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 1.75 2 43.5% 1 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 49.3% 2 TYPES OF PLAY France Wales 44.9% 52.0% 41.0% 36.8% 14.1% 11.2% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Matthieu Jalibert 30 POINTS Callum Sheedy 24 Antoine Dupont 2 TRIES SCORED Louis Rees-Zammit 4 Antoine Dupont 4 TRY ASSISTS Dan Biggar 2 Gregory Alldritt 39 CARRIES Taulupe Faletau 50 Brice Dulin 232.9 METRES CARRIED Taulupe Faletau 282.8 Antoine Dupont 5 OFFLOADS Dan Biggar 3 Paul Willemse 52 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Justin Tipuric 70 Paul Willemse 4 DOMINANT TACKLES Ken Owens 5 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES France Wales Try & Conversion Scored Try & Missed Conversion Penalty Try Scored 31.0% 34.6% 34.5% Penalty Shot Scored Points / Points / Drop Goal Scored 50.0% Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: Other Opp 22 Entries 3.04 3.86 0.0% 7.7% 13.8% 0.0% 7.7% 0.0% 20.7% Opponent 22 entries / match 8.7 Opponent 22 entries / match 7.3 Rank 1 Rank 6 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 per ‘play’ and not simply crossing the 22m line on multiple occasions in a play. POWER GAME France Wales 49.7% 43.2% 33.3% 33.8% 23.0% 17.0% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 636 Metres carried / match 575 Line breaks / match 6.7 Line breaks / match 5.5 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 France Wales % Tackles dominant 12.8% 1.8% 11.2% 1.9% % Turnover Tackles % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 82.3% 83.1% 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 FRANCE vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - France have won only two of their last nine games against Wales in the Six Nations (L7) after winning nine of the previous 12 (L3). - Wales have won three of their last four away games to France in the Six Nations (L1), after winning only two of the previous six (L4); they won in their last trip to France (24-19 in 2019) despite trailing by 16 points at half-time, the biggest second-half comeback for a team in the Six Nations. - Wales have scored more than 20 points in their last two games against France in the Six Nations, as many times as in their previous 11 encounters. - Wales have scored no first-half tries in their last five away games against France in the Six Nations, but scored five second-half tries in that span. - France have scored a tally of 11 tries in their last three Test games against Wales after scoring 10 tries in their previous 10 meetings. COMMON STATISTICS - France have beaten more defenders on average than any other side in this edition of the Six Nations, their tally of 27 defenders beaten per match is more than double that of Wales (12.5) who have beaten the fewest of any side. - Wales remain the only side yet to be shown a card of any colour in the 2021 Six Nations, indeed they have now gone 15 games in the tournament without being shown a card, France meanwhile have conceded fewer penalties per game (8.7) than any other side in the 2021 Championship. - France have averaged 1,131 kicking metres per game in the Six Nations in 2021, more than any other side, while Wales have made the second most (901). - Wales have averaged 175 successful tackles per game in the Six Nations this year, more than any other side, while France have made the second most (161). - France’s Charles Ollivon and Wales’ Justin Tipuric have each made 16 lineout takes in the Six Nations in 2021, more than any other player; Wales Adam Beard sits just behind them on 15 takes. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs WALES GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 FRANCE STATISTICS - France have made more offloads (27) than any other side in the 2021 Six Nations, Les Bleus have been successful with 87% of the offloads they have attempted overall, the best rate of any nation. - France’s Gregory Alldritt has made 41 defensive breakdown arrivals in the Six Nations this year, more than any other player in the tournament. - Individually, Antoine Dupont has made the most offloads of any player in the Six Nations in 2021 (5). - Antoine Dupont already has four try assists in this Six Nations, only five players have ever recorded more in an edition of the Championship with Frederic Michalak (7 in 2006) the only Frenchman to do so. - Teddy Thomas (France) has beaten 14 defenders from 14 carries in the 2021 Six Nations, the best rate of any player to make more than one carry. WALES STATISTICS - Wales are bidding to win a sixth Six Nations title (since 2000), only England (7) have won the Championship more often, if they win this match it would be their fifth Grand Slam, no other side has more than three. - Wales have made 144 metres from their maul in the 2021 Six Nations, 85 metres more than any other side, they are also the only team to score a try directly from a maul this season in the Championship. - Justin Tipuric (70), Josh Navidi and Taulupe Faletau (both 57) are the top three tacklers in the 2021 Six Nations. - Josh Navidi (2) is the only forward to assist multiple tries in the Six Nations in 2021, in fact, only Antoine Dupont (4) has assisted more overall than the Wales back rower. - Louis Rees-Zammit is the joint top try scorer in the 2021 Six Nations (4, same as Anthony Watson), Shane Williams (6 in 2008) is the only Welsh player to score more than four in an edition of the tournament; Rees-Zammit also tops the charts for breaks in the tournament this year (7). ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED FRANCE - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 85 4 23.7 Points scored / match 28.3 2 23.7 Tries scored 11 2 2.73 Tries scored / match 3.67 2 2.73 % Points scored from tries 64.7% 1 57.6% Conversion success % 81.8% 3 76.7% Successful penalties / match 1.33 4 1.95 Penalty shot success % 66.7% 5 86.0% POINTS PER MATCH 50 20 15 1 2 4 W L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 14 (16.5%) Try-From Counter Attack 2 (18.18%) 11'-20' 3 (3.5%) 21'-30' 20 (23.5%) Try-From Lineout 5 (45.45%) 31'-HT 14 (16.5%) HT-50' 8 (9.4%) Try-From Scrum 2 (18.18%) 51'-60' 21 (24.7%) 61'-70' 0 (0.0%) Try-From Turnover 2 (18.18%) 71'-80' 5 (5.9%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT KICKS AT GOAL FRANCE - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 KICK LOCATIONS LAST 20 KICKS Opponent Minute Player England 64 Brice Dulin Drop missed 50 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty made 34 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 30 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty made 3 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made Ireland 72 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty missed 56 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion missed 39 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty made 31 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 11 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty missed Italy 75 Louis Carbonel Conversion missed 58 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 54 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 51 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 31 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 28 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made 11 Matthieu Jalibert Penalty made 7 Matthieu Jalibert Conversion made CONVERSIONS Louis Carbonel Matthieu Jalibert 1 (10.0%) Made: 0 Made: 9 1 (100.0%) Rank: 12 Rank: 1 9 (90.0%) PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL Matthieu Jalibert 2 (33.3%) Made: 4 Rank: 3 4 (66.7%) Ranks across total successful kicks ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021. 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PRE-MATCH REPORT PLAYER SCORING STATISTICS FRANCE - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2021 GP MP Points Points / 80 Tries Con Pen Drop Anthony Jelonch 2 89 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Antoine Dupont 3 219 10 3.7 2 0 0 0 Arthur Vincent 2 160 5 2.5 1 0 0 0 Baptiste Serin 1 21 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Bernard le Roux 2 150 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Brice Dulin 3 240 5 1.7 1 0 0 0 Cameron Woki 1 9 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Camille Chat 1 9 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Charles Ollivon 3 240 5 1.7 1 0 0 0 Cyril Baille 3 194 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Cyril Cazeaux 1 21 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Damian Penaud 3 168 10 4.8 2 0 0 0 Dorian Aldegheri 2 50 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Dylan Cretin 3 164 5 2.4 1 0 0 0 Gabin Villiere 2 160 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Gael Fickou 3 219 5 1.8 1 0 0 0 Gregory Alldritt 3 218 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Hassane Kolingar 1 5 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Jean-Baptiste Gros 2 41 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Julien Marchand 3 191 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Louis Carbonel 1 21 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Matthieu Jalibert 3 219 30 11.0 0 9 4 0 Mohamed Haouas 3 166 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Paul Willemse 3 208 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Pierre Bourgarit 2 40 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Romain Taofifenua 3 91 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Teddy Thomas 3 173 10 4.6 2 0 0 0 Uini Atonio 1 24 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 Virimi Vakatawa 1 80 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2021.