Team France PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs ENGLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 ROUND 1 Team France PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs ENGLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 RESULTS FRANCE ENGLAND Round Opponent Score Round Opponent Score 1 Wales 19-24 L 1 Ireland 32-20 W 2 England 8-44 L 2 France 44-8 W 3 Scotland 27-10 W 3 Wales 13-21 L 4 Ireland 14-26 L 4 Italy 57-14 W 5 Italy 25-14 W 5 Scotland 38-38 D HOME TEAM HOME RANK FOR AWAY TEAM AWAY RANK 93 5 POINTS 184 1 18.6 5 POINTS / MATCH 36.8 1 12 4 TRIES SCORED 24 1 2.40 4 TRIES SCORED / MATCH 4.8 1 64.5% 4 % POINTS SCORED FROM TRIES 69.0% 2 AGAINST 118 3 POINTS CONCEDED 101 4 23.6 3 POINTS CONCEDED / MATCH 20.2 4 15 3 TRIES CONCEDED 13 4 3.0 3 TRIES CONCEDED / MATCH 2.6 4 69.5% 1 % POINTS CONCEDED FROM TRIES 64.4% 4 TYPES OF PLAY France England 43.6% 46.3% 40.3% 48.7% 10.2% 11.0% Kick Ball Carry Passes Kick Ball Carry Passes HOME TEAM PLAYER LEADERS AWAY TEAM Yoann Huget 20 POINTS Owen Farrell 59 Yoann Huget 4 TRIES SCORED Jonny May 6 Gregory Alldritt 3 TRY ASSISTS Elliot Daly 4 Louis Picamoles 56 CARRIES Billy Vunipola 71 Damian Penaud 323.7 METRES CARRIED Billy Vunipola 407.7 Antoine Dupont 8 OFFLOADS Elliot Daly 7 Felix Lambey 77 SUCCESSFUL TACKLES Thomas Curry 97 Louis Picamoles 9 DOMINANT TACKLES Thomas Curry 16 ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs ENGLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 OPPONENT 22 ENTRIES France England Try & Conversion Scored Try & Missed Conversion 16.2% Penalty Try Scored 37.5% Penalty Shot Scored Drop Goal Scored Points / 16.2% 47.9% Points / Opp 22 Entry: Opp 22 Entry: Other Opp 22 Entries 2.27 3.23 56.8% 0.0% 8.1% 2.7% 8.3% 0.0% 6.3% Opponent 22 entries / match 7.4 Opponent 22 entries / match 9.6 Rank 5 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 France England 53.5% 49.3% 34.9% 27.4% 19.1% 15.8% Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Gainline Forwards Gainline Static Gainline Backward Metres carried / match 689 Metres carried / match 758 Line breaks / match 4.2 Line breaks / match 5.8 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 England % Tackles dominant 10.1% 7.8% 11.5% 12.5% % Turnover Tackles 2.2% 1.1% % Other Made Tackles % Missed Tackles 79.9% 74.8% 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 FRANCE vs ENGLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 HEAD TO HEAD - In the sides’ 20 meetings in the Six Nations, England hold the advantage - winning 13 clashes, with France gaining victory in the remaining seven matches. - The previous meeting between the sides in the Guinness Six Nations saw England run out 44-8 victors. It was the biggest margin of victory in their Championship history and the only time France have been limited to fewer than nine points by England in the competition. - In terms of Guinness Six Nations games held in France, the French national side have outscored England 200-186 - claiming wins in six of their ten meetings. France’s sole Guinness Six Nations victory over England, in England, came in 2005. - England and France have met on the opening weekend of the Guinness Six Nations on three separate occasions - in 2003, 2014 and 2017. In the game that was held in France, the hosts ran out 26-24 winners in 2014, having lost their three previous meetings with England in the Championship. They would also go on to lose the three meetings immediately thereafter, also. - There has been a converted try or less between the sides in exactly half of their Six Nations meetings, with seven of those games ending with three points or fewer deciding the outcome of the match. COMMON STATISTICS - England averaged 9.6 opposition 22 entries per match, which was the highest average in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - scoring a try on almost half of those possessions (45.8%). Conversely, France ranked fifth in terms of opposition 22 entries in last year’s Championship, fail- ing to score at all in over half of their opposition 22 entries (56.8%). - While France managed 90.9% (689m) of England’s carry metres average in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, they managed just 72.4% (22) of their line breaks throughout the Championship. - During the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, France averaged 15.2 dominant tackles per match, which was the third-highest total among the six teams. Despite that, the figure was still below the Championship average as England averaged 29.2 dominant tackles per match - almost twice the number put up by the French. - France (5) and England (2) both conceded multiple tries that originated from counter attacks during the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - as Italy were the only other nation to do so. France gave up five tries via counter attacks, accounting for 33.3% of their total try concessions throughout the Championship. - England dominated the 2019 Guinness Six Nations in terms of territorial advantage, boasting a Championship-high mark of 58%, while France had the ball in the opposition half just 45% of the time - the lowest percentage in the Championship. FRANCE STATISTICS - France have lost each of their last three opening Guinness Six Nations games, having lost just four times in their 17 opening games prior to this run. - France have won three of their last four home games in the Guinness Six Nations, only losing in their opening game of the 2019 Champi- onship against Wales. - France didn’t kick whatsoever in the opposition 22 in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - the only team not to do so in the competition. Only Scotland (58.0%) passed the ball with more of their possessions in the opposition 22 than France did the in the Championship (55.9%). - In the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, no side won more turnover tackles per match than France (4.4), while their turnovers won per game (5.0) also led the competition. Damian Penaud led the 2019 Championship with five turnover tackles - one per every 74.6 minutes he played in the tournament. ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE vs ENGLAND GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020 FRANCE STATISTICS - France won 16.7% of their 22 metre restarts in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations - the highest percentage in the Championship. Conversely, they won the lowest share of restarts from halfway - just 3.8% of them (just one in total). ENGLAND STATISTICS - Of England’s 20 Guinness Six Nations openers, they have won 17 - losing only to Wales (2005 and 2008) and France (2014) by a combined losing margin of just 11 points. They have won the remaining 17 opening fixtures by an average of over 18 points. - England have lost three of their last four away games in the Guinness Six Nations. They haven’t lost four times in a five-game span away from home in the competition since they were defeated in four consecutive games between the 2006 and 2007 editions (including losing in France in 2006). - England scored 119 points in the first half of games in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations, which is more than any other team managed to score in total in their five games combined. - England were responsible for 50% (6) of the 12 tries originating from counter attacks in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations. Their six tries from that source were twice as many as any other nation. - England's 4,329 kicking metres led the 2019 Championship, as they had over 500 metres more than the second-highest team (France - 3,799m). ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT FRANCE STATISTICS ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT POINTS SCORED FRANCE - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 Statistic Team Rank Championship Average Points scored 93 5 22.5 Points scored / match 18.6 5 22.5 Tries scored 12 4 2.80 Tries scored / match 2.40 4 2.80 % Points scored from tries 64.5% 4 63.2% Conversion success % 50.0% 5 69.9% Successful penalties / match 1.00 4 1.47 Penalty shot success % 62.5% 6 75.9% POINTS PER MATCH 27 25 19 14 8 1 2 3 4 5 W L POINTS - TIMING TRY ORIGINS 0'-10' 8 (8.6%) 4 (33.33%) 11'-20' 17 (18.3%) Try-From Lineout 21'-30' 8 (8.6%) 31'-HT 11 (11.8%) Try-From Scrum 4 (33.33%) HT-50' 12 (12.9%) 51'-60' 0 (0.0%) 61'-70' 6 (6.5%) Try-From Turnover 4 (33.33%) 71'-80' 31 (33.3%) ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020. All rights reserved. PRE-MATCH REPORT KICKS AT GOAL FRANCE - GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2019 KICK LOCATIONS LAST 20 KICKS Opponent Minute Player Italy 80 Romain Ntamack Conversion missed 63 Romain Ntamack Drop made 48 Romain Ntamack Conversion made 21 Romain Ntamack Penalty made 17 Romain Ntamack Conversion made Ireland 80 Baptiste Serin Conversion made 77 Baptiste Serin Conversion made Scotland 80 Baptiste Serin Conversion made 77 Baptiste Serin Conversion missed 43 Thomas Ramos Conversion missed 33 Thomas Ramos Penalty missed 18 Thomas Ramos Penalty made 15 Thomas Ramos Conversion made England 36 Morgan Parra Conversion missed 10 Morgan Parra Penalty made Wales 70 Camille Lopez Penalty made 68 Camille Lopez Drop missed 60 Camille Lopez Penalty missed 40 Camille Lopez Drop made 33 Camille Lopez Penalty made CONVERSIONS Baptiste Serin Morgan Parra Romain Ntamack Thomas Ramos 1 (25.0%) 1 (33.3%) Made: 3 Made: 0 Made: 2 Made: 1 1 (50.0%) 3 (100.0%) 1 (50.0%) Rank: 7 Rank: 16 Rank: 11 Rank: 12 2 (66.7%) 3 (75.0%) PENALTY KICKS AT GOAL Camille Lopez Morgan Parra Romain Ntamack Thomas Ramos 2 (50.0%) Made: 2 Made: 1 Made: 1 1 (50.0%) Made: 1 1 (100.0%) 1 (100.0%) Rank: 6 2 (50.0%) Rank: 9 Rank: 9 Rank: 9 1 (50.0%) Ranks across total successful kicks ©Copyright Stats Perform 2020.