We give some statistics from the two Tests played in Australasia over the weekend.

New Zealand turned the tables on France and again Australia beat a brave Italian side which showed greater intensity than Italian sides usually do.

Results

New Zealand vs France, 14-10
Australia vs Italy, 35-12

Sanctions

There were no cards of any hue.

Penalties

In this section we record the times a team was penalised.

* = points conceded

(i) New Zealand vs France

Total number of penalties: 15

New Zealand: 8
France: 7

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

New Zealand:
Tackle/ruck: 5 (Ross, Smith, Thorn, Donald, Muliaina)
Scrum: 1 (Tialata)
Offside: 1 (Thorne*)
Discipline: 1 (Nonu - late tackle)

France:
Tackle/ruck: 7 (Clerc* 2, Ouedraogo, Dusautoir, Millo-Chluski, Mas**, Martin*)

New Zealand missed two penalty kicks at goal, France four.

(ii) Australia vs Italy

Total number of penalties: 19

Australia: 11
Italy: 8

The reasons for the penalties were as follows:

Australia:
Tackle: 5 (Mumm* 3, Giteau*, Cooper*)
Off-side: 2 (Smith*, Cooper)
Scrum: 2 (Cowan, Alexander)
Discipline: 2 (Horwill - air tackle; Cooper - late tackle)

Italy:
Tackle/Ruck: 7 (Staibano, Aguero, Tebaldi* 2, Favaro 2, Gower)
Scrum: 1 (Perugini)

Each side missed a penalty kick at goal.

Possession

Getting possession - line-outs, scrums, free-kicks, drop-outs, turn-overs

In this section the figures represent the number of times you get to play with the ball.

(i) New Zealand vs France

New Zealand:
Line-outs: 17 (1 lost, 1 skew, 1 quick)
Scrums: 7
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 7

France:
Line-outs: 8 (2 lost, 1 skew)
Scrums: 12 (6 reset, 4 collapses, 2 lost, 1 penalty, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 2

(ii) Australia vs Italy

Australia:
Line-outs: 10 (4 lost)
Scrums: 5 (1 reset, 3 collapses, 1 free kick)
Free-kicks: 0
Drop-outs: 5

Italy:
Line-outs: 16 (1 lost, 1 reset)
Scrums: 7 (6 reset, 8 collapses, 3 penalties)
Free-kicks: 1 (scrum)
Drop-outs: 3

Stoppages (total of line-outs, scrums with resets, free kicks, penalties, drop-outs):

New Zealand vs France: 75
Australia vs Italy: 74

Tries

This is the number of tries each team scored.

(i) New Zealand vs France: 2

New Zealand: 1
France: 1

(ii) Australia vs Italy: 5

Australia: 5
Italy: 0