Japan v South Africa
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
3 – 26
20 October 2019Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo
What the model says about Japan v South Africa
- Kick-off
- 10:15 UTC
- Elevation
- 66 m
- Temperature
- 19.3 °C
- Rainfall
- 0.0 mm
- Wind
- 19 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. 22 of the 46 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
Japan
- 1Keita Inagaki
- 2Shota Horie
- 3Jiwon Gu
- 4Luke Thompson
- 5James Moore
- 6Michael Leitch(c)
- 7Pieter Labuschagne
- 8Kazuki Himeno
- 9Yutaka Nagare
- 10Yu Tamura
- 11Kenki Fukuoka
- 12Ryoto Nakamura
- 13Timothy Lafaele
- 14Kotaro Matsushima
- 15Ryohei Yamanaka
Replacements
- 16Atsushi Sakate
- 17Isileli Nakajima
- 18Asaeli Ai Valu
- 19Wimpie van der Walt
- 20Amanaki Lelei Mafi
- 21Fumiaki Tanaka
- 22Rikiya Matsuda
- 23Lomano Lemeki
South Africa
- 1Tendai Mtawarira+6.9
- 2Bongi Mbonambi-3.5
- 3Frans Malherbe+7.2
- 4Eben Etzebeth-12.7
- 5Lood de Jager-4.9
- 6Siya Kolisi(c)+2.4
- 7Pieter-Steph du Toit-6.8
- 8Duane Vermeulen+6.9
- 9Faf de Klerk-2.9
- 10Handré Pollard-4.0
- 11Makazole Mapimpi+2.2
- 12Damian de Allende-0.1
- 13Lukhanyo Am-2.4
- 14Cheslin Kolbe-0.2
- 15Willie le Roux+4.6
Replacements
- 16Malcolm Marx-4.3
- 17Steven Kitshoff
- 18Vincent Koch-5.2
- 19RG Snyman+8.1
- 20Franco Mostert-1.0
- 21Francois Louw+9.7
- 22Herschel Jantjies+3.4
- 23Francois Steyn+7.8
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
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 54.0% | Possession | 46.0% |
| 50.0% | Territory | 50.0% |
Attack
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 274m | Carry metres | 295m |
| 7 | Clean breaks | 10 |
| 20 | Defenders beaten | 15 |
| 12 | Offloads | 2 |
| 204 | Passes | 104 |
Defence
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 103 | Tackles made | 148 |
| 87.0% | Tackle success | 88.0% |
| 15 | Missed tackles(fewer is better) | 20 |
| 3 | Turnovers won | 10 |
Set pieces
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 61.5% | Lineout success | — |
| 8 | Lineouts won | 10 |
| 8 | Scrums won | 6 |
Breakdown
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 87 | Rucks won | 68 |
| — | Mauls won | 10 |
Kicking
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Kicks from hand | 30 |
| 408m | Kick metres | 625m |
Discipline
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Penalties conceded(fewer is better) | 8 |
| — | Yellow cards(fewer is better) | 1 |
| 8 | Knock-ons(fewer is better) | 14 |
Scoring
| Japan | Measure | South Africa |
|---|---|---|
| — | Tries | 3 |
| — | Conversions | 1 |
| 1 | Penalty goals | 3 |
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.