USA v Japan
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
39 – 26
27 October 2003Central Coast Stadium, Gosford · neutral venue
What the model says about USA v Japan
Conditions
- Kick-off
- 08:30 UTC
- Elevation
- 6 m
- Temperature
- 16.3 °C
- Rainfall
- 0.3 mm
- Wind
- 21 km/h
Daily means at the ground, from the ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo.
The ground from above
Matchday squads
USA
- 1Mike MacDonald
- 2Kirk Khasigian
- 3Dan Dorsey
- 4Gerhard Klerck
- 5Luke Gross
- 6Kort Schubert
- 7Dave Hodges(c)
- 8Dan Lyle
- 9Kevin Dalzell
- 10Mike Hercus
- 11Riaan van Zyl
- 12Salesi Sika
- 13Phillip Eloff
- 14David Fee
- 15Paul Emerick
Replacements
- 16Matt Wyatt
- 17Jacob Waasdorp
- 18Jurie Gouws
- 19Olo Fifita
- 20Kimball Kjar
- 21Jason Keyter
- 22John Buchholz
Japan
- 1Shin Hasegawa
- 2Masao Amino
- 3Masahiko Toyoyoma
- 4Hajime Kiso
- 5Adam Parker
- 6Naoya Okubo
- 7Takuro Miuchi(c)
- 8Takeomi Ito
- 9Yuji Sonoda
- 10Andy Miller
- 11Toru Kurihara
- 12Yukio Motoki
- 13George Konia
- 14Daisuke Ohata
- 15Tsutomu Matsuda
Replacements
- 16Masahito Yamamoto
- 17Masaaki Sakata
- 18Koichi Kubo
- 19Yuya Saito
- 20Takashi Tsuji
- 21Hideki Nanba
- 22Hirotoki Onozawa
What happened in the phases
Possession and territory
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 71.0% | Possession | 29.0% |
Attack
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 662m | Carry metres | 260m |
| 18 | Clean breaks | 8 |
| 31 | Defenders beaten | 14 |
| 13 | Offloads | 6 |
| 102 | Passes | 99 |
Defence
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 65 | Tackles made | 87 |
| 82.0% | Tackle success | 74.0% |
| 14 | Missed tackles(fewer is better) | 31 |
| 4 | Turnovers won | 10 |
Set pieces
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 77.8% | Lineout success | 75.0% |
| 7 | Lineouts won | 6 |
| 8 | Scrums won | 16 |
Breakdown
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 57 | Rucks won | 42 |
| 4 | Mauls won | 1 |
Kicking
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | Kicks from hand | 21 |
| 384m | Kick metres | 851m |
Discipline
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Penalties conceded(fewer is better) | 6 |
| 17 | Knock-ons(fewer is better) | 7 |
Scoring
| USA | Measure | Japan |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Tries | 2 |
| 4 | Conversions | 2 |
| 2 | Penalty goals | 4 |
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.