Ireland v USA
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
22 – 10
11 September 2011Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth · neutral venue
What the model says about Ireland v USA
- Kick-off
- 06:00 UTC
- Elevation
- 44 m
- Temperature
- 10.7 °C
- Rainfall
- 22.7 mm
- Wind
- 41 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. 13 of the 44 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
Ireland
- 1Tom Court
- 2Rory Best
- 3Mike Ross
- 4Donncha O'Callaghan
- 5Paul O'Connell-2.4
- 6Stephen Ferris
- 7Shane Jennings
- 8Jamie Heaslip
- 9Conor Murray-1.4
- 10Johnny Sexton+5.2
- 11Keith Earls-4.9
- 12Gordon D'Arcy-0.8
- 13Brian O'Driscoll(c)-0.9
- 14Tommy Bowe-3.8
- 15Geordan Murphy-2.5
Replacements
- 16Jerry Flannery+3.4
- 17Tony Buckley
- 18Donnacha Ryan-1.5
- 19Denis Leamy+5.0
- 20Eoin Reddan-4.6
- 21Ronan O'Gara
- 22Andrew Trimble+3.5
USA
- 1Mike MacDonald
- 2Phil Thiel
- 3Shawn Pittman
- 4John van der Giessen
- 5Hayden Smith
- 6Louis Stanfill
- 7Todd Clever(c)
- 8Nic Johnson
- 9Mike Petri
- 10Roland Suniula
- 11James Paterson
- 12Andrew Suniula
- 13Paul Emerick
- 14Takudzwa Ngwenya
- 15Blaine Scully
Replacements
- 16Chris Biller
- 17Mate Moeakiola
- 18Scott LaValla
- 19Pat Danahy
- 20Tim Usasz
- 21Nese Malifa
- 22Colin Hawley
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
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 59.0% | Possession | 41.0% |
| 63.0% | Territory | 37.0% |
Attack
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 328m | Carry metres | 160m |
| 11 | Defenders beaten | 6 |
| 118 | Passes | 85 |
Defence
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 72 | Tackles made | 110 |
| 6 | Missed tackles(fewer is better) | 11 |
Set pieces
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| — | Lineout success | 73.3% |
| 17 | Lineouts won | 11 |
| 25 | Scrums won | 25 |
Breakdown
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 87 | Rucks won | 56 |
| 9 | Mauls won | 1 |
Discipline
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Penalties conceded(fewer is better) | 13 |
| 7 | Knock-ons(fewer is better) | 4 |
Scoring
| Ireland | Measure | USA |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Tries | 1 |
| 2 | Conversions | 1 |
| 1 | Penalty goals | 1 |
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.