Wales v France
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
12 – 54
15 February 2026Principality Stadium, Cardiff
What the model says about Wales v France
- Kick-off
- 15:10 UTC
- Elevation
- 9 m
- Temperature
- 6.5 °C
- Rainfall
- 10.9 mm
- Wind
- 31 km/h
Daily means at the ground, from the ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo.
Beside a name: points of margin the side has beaten its own rating by with him in the squad, against the same period without him. 29 of the 46 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
Wales
- 1Rhys Carré-1.2
- 2Dewi Lake-5.3
- 3Tomas Francis+10.5
- 4Dafydd Jenkins+8.2
- 5Adam Beard+1.0
- 6Aaron Wainwright+1.1
- 7Alex Mann+5.6
- 8Olly Cracknell
- 9Tomos Williams+0.8
- 10Dan Edwards
- 11Josh Adams+7.4
- 12Joe Hawkins
- 13Eddie James
- 14Ellis Mee
- 15Louis Rees-Zammit+10.8
Replacements
- 16Ryan Elias+3.4
- 17Nicky Smith-0.9
- 18Archie Griffin+9.9
- 19Ben Carter
- 20Taine Plumtree
- 21Kieran Hardy+1.3
- 22Jarrod Evans
- 23Mason Grady+3.4
France
- 1Jean-Baptiste Gros+3.5
- 2Julien Marchand+1.9
- 3Dorian Aldegheri+8.3
- 4Charles Ollivon-1.1
- 5Mickaël Guillard
- 6François Cros+9.1
- 7Oscar Jégou+14.2
- 8Anthony Jelonch+7.2
- 9Antoine Dupont+8.4
- 10Matthieu Jalibert+1.8
- 11Louis Bielle-Biarrey
- 12Fabien Brau-Boirie
- 13Émilien Gailleton
- 14Théo Attissogbé+6.2
- 15Thomas Ramos+6.3
Replacements
- 16Maxime Lamothe
- 17Rodrigue Neti
- 18Régis Montagne
- 19Thibaud Flament+10.4
- 20Emmanuel Meafou+4.6
- 21Lenni Nouchi
- 22Baptiste Serin-0.1
- 23Noah Nene
Measured against the side's point-in-time rating, so opposition and venue are already removed, and over the years between a player's first and last cap rather than his side's whole history. None of the 778 players assessed has a gap larger than chance explains once the number tested is corrected for — a rating already contains the players who usually play for a side, so what a team sheet can add to it is small. Team selection is not an input to the forecast on this page. The full table and the method.
Possession and territory
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 51.0% | Possession | 49.0% |
| 41.0% | Territory | 59.0% |
Attack
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 157 | Carries | 155 |
| 482m | Carry metres | 778m |
| 7 | Clean breaks | 18 |
| 23 | Defenders beaten | 33 |
| 13 | Offloads | 25 |
| 200 | Passes | 217 |
Defence
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 140 | Tackles made | 207 |
| 66.0% | Tackle success | 83.0% |
| 33 | Missed tackles(fewer is better) | 23 |
| 6 | Dominant tackles | 15 |
| 3 | Turnovers won | 7 |
Set pieces
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 100.0% | Lineout success | 100.0% |
| 12 | Lineouts won | 12 |
| 100.0% | Scrum success | 100.0% |
| 6 | Scrums won | 3 |
Breakdown
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 96.0% | Ruck success | 99.0% |
| 122 | Rucks won | 84 |
| 1 | Mauls won | 6 |
Kicking
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Kicks from hand | 30 |
| 739m | Kick metres | 877m |
Discipline
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Penalties conceded(fewer is better) | 6 |
| 9 | Knock-ons(fewer is better) | 7 |
Scoring
| Wales | Measure | France |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Tries | 8 |
| 1 | Conversions | 7 |
Context beside the forecast, never inside it. Weather, team selection and match statistics are not model inputs, so a published probability does not move because any of them changed.