England v France: H2H Stat Attack

It’s the famous Le Crunch clash is going down on Saturday at Twickenham.

The French will look to continue their fine form whereas England will be looking to right their wrongs after a narrow 27-22 defeat to Ireland in the first round of the Six Nations.

Let us have a look some of the stats from the first round from each team and see how the two compare.

On the Atack

France was fierce in their ball-carrying against Wales with 41% of their carries being dominant carries, achieving a 54% gainline success rate and committing 2+ tacklers 66% of the time, while 50% of their line breaks led to a try.

England on the other hand had fewer dominant carries with only 32% of their carries being dominant, achieving a 57% gainline success rate and committing 2+ tacklers 71% of the time, while only 33% of their line breaks led to a try.

Set Pieces

Both England and France had a 93% lineout success rate, with 60% of England’s lineouts going to the front and less than half of France’s lineouts going to the front (40%).

England were the better scummers against Ireland with an impressive 100% scrum win rate, whereas France’s was 83%.

Both teams had a 100% maul win rate in their respective games but only France managed to gain metres (16) and score1 try from their mauls.

On The Defence

France boasted a 94% tackles success rate also completing 9 dominant tackles whereas England had an 86% tackles success rate but completing 15 dominant tackles.

France was able to absorb the Wales pressure exiting their own 22 88% of the time by kicking and only carried it out 12% of the time.

England tried to run it out of their own 22 30% of the time and kicked it out 70% of the time.

Try origins

86% of France’s tries came from set-pieces and only 67% of England’s’.

France entered Wales 22 12 times and 59% of the that led to a try.

England entered Irelands 22 7 times and 43% of that led to a try.