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1 drop, 20 forwards, 61 penalties...: the Six Nations Tournament in figures

2022-03-22T05:09:28.792Z


The tricolor clumsiness, Scottish indiscipline, the slaughter of the Italian Lamaro...: discover the key (and official) statistics of the 2022 Tournament.


0

Yellow or red card received by the XV of France during the Tournament.

In total, six yellow cards (2 to the Scots, 2 to the Welsh, 1 to the English and 1 to the Italians) and 2 red cards (the English Charlie Ewels, the Italian Hame Faiva) were distributed in fifteen meetings.

To discover

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1

Only one drop was scored in the 15 games of the 2022 6 Nations Tournament. By Welsh fly-half Dan Biggar against Scotland (20-17 victory).

3

Wingers Damian Penaud and Gabin Villière finished co-top try scorers of the 2022 Tournament with three tries each.

The same total as Irishman James Lowe.

4

Opener Romain Ntamack had four assists from four French tries.

Tied for the best total with Irish scrum-half Jamison Gibson Parks.

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7

The XV of France only conceded seven tries during this edition.

Only Ireland did better (4 tries conceded).

8

The English pillar Ellis Genge conceded 8 penalties, which makes him the most undisciplined player of the 2022 edition. On the French side, Grégory Alldritt was sanctioned 6 times.

9

The Italian Monty Ioane is the player to have passed the most passes after contact, 9. Ahead of Antoine Dupont and… the Toulouse pillar Cyril Baille, 8 each.

Grégory Alldritt follows, with 7 assists after contact.

10

The number of players having played all five matches of the Tournament.

On the French side, it is Romain Ntamack and Gaël Fickou.

The Welshman Adam Beard, the Irishman Josh Van der Flier, the Italian Monty Ioane, the Scots Stuart Hogg and Darcy Graham, the English Maro Itoje, Freddie Steward and Henry Slade are the other players at 400 minutes.

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11

The number of starting Blues in the five Grand Slam matches (Jaminet, Fickou, Ntamack, Dupont, Alldritt, Jelonch, Willemse, Woki, Baille, Marchand and Atonio).

17

The number of tries scored by the Blues in this Tournament.

Behind Ireland (24), but far ahead of Scotland (11), Wales and England (8 each) or Italy (5).

20

The XV of France is the team that committed the most forwards during this Tournament: 20. Worse than the Welsh and the Irish (18).

Jonathan Danty and Gabin Villière, 3 each, are at the top of this clumsiness ranking.

28

Touches won by the Italian Federico Ruzza (28).

Best total ahead of Bordeaux's Cameron Woki (24).

26

Blues have taken part in all five tricks.

From Fickou and Ntamack, 400 minutes out of 400, to the young Toulouse winger Matthis Lebel, 1 minute spent on the pitch.

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47

The number of penalties whistled against the XV of France.

Only Italy does better (46).

In contrast, Scotland conceded 61, the worst total of this edition.

Incidentally, the Blues are the least penalized in closed scrum (4 against), unlike Ireland (13 times) or England (10).

63

With 63 points conceded, Ireland finished with the best defense in the competition.

In front of France, 73 points conceded (including 7 tries).

71

The number of points scored by the best scorer of this Tournament, the English opener Marcus Smith (2 tries, 5 conversions and 17 penalties).

He is ahead of Melvyn Jaminet (54 pts, 9 transformations and 12 penalties).

What these two young scorers have in common is that they were taking part in the Six Nations Tournament for the first time…

Read alsoHow the XV of France found the heights

86

The number of successful tackles by the Italian third line, Michele Lamaro.

With however waste (15 failures).

He is ahead of the Scottish Hamish Watson, 70 successful tackles… out of 70 attempted!

In third place, Anthony Jelonch, 64 successful tackles (7 misses).

168

With 168 points scored, Ireland finished best attack of this 6 Nations Tournament (24 tries scored), ahead of the XV of France (141 pts).

5.423

Meters gained by the French team.

By far the first in this field (4,542 by Italy; 4,350 by the Welsh…).

Antoine Dupont is the best in this exercise since the tricolor captain gained 1,930 meters on foot, ahead of the Italian opener from Montpellier Paolo Garbisi (1,787m).

Source: lefigaro

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