The usual analysis of the All Blacks’ game, being the First 3 to the Breakdown, tackle stats, penalties conceded, turnovers, the lineouts, and scrums.

Some notes on these stats: First Three to the Breakdown stats are looking for those players who are getting to the tackle/breakdown quickly and are also being useful by either cleaning out opposition players or setting up ruck ball. Anyone arriving and just leaning on the ruck isn’t included, so there are times when I will only tally one or two players. Likewise, if four players arrive simultaneously and perform a clean-out and setting up of a ruck, I will include all four in the stat.

Completed Tackles means that the player actually brought the ball carrier to ground (ie. as the Laws of the Game actually described the tackler), not assists in the tackle situation which are tallied separately. Missed tackles also includes slipped tackles where the ball runner gets away. Most importantly, I do NOT included slipped tackles in the Tackles Made stats, it gets noted as a missed tackle. Either you’ve made the tackle or you’ve missed it. Numbers in brackets are the first half/second half breakdown for each TOTAL. An asterisk denotes a player who came on as a substitute.

This week:

Team:	Tony Woodcock, Keven Mealamu, Owen Franks, Luke Romano, Brodie Retallick, Jerome Kaino, Richie McCaw (c), Kieran Read, TJ Perenara, Dan Carter, Charles Piutau, Sonny Bill Williams, Ma’a Nonu,Waisake Naholo, Israel Dagg
Reserves:	Cody Taylor, Wyatt Crockett, Nepo Laulala, Jeremy Thrush, Liam Messam, Andy Ellis, Colin Slade, Ryan Crotty

Points scored	NZ	Argentina
Tries	5	2
Conversions	4	1
Penalties	2/4	2/3
TOTAL	39	18

Goal Kicking	Penalties	Conversions
Carter	2/4	4/5
Sanchez	2/3	1/2

Restarts won	NZ	Argentina
Own kick-off	4	1
Opposition kick-off	5	3
TOTAL	9	4

Kicks in play	NZ	Argentina
Own 22	4	6
Rest of field	7	9
TOTAL	11	15

Penalties/Free Kicks Conceded	Penalties	Free kicks
NZ	11	0
Argentina	9	1
TOTAL	21	0

NZ Penalty Offences
Tackled player	Naholo	1
Tackler	McCaw, Red, Kaino, Retallick	4
Ruck entry	Franks	1
Ruck hands	McCaw	1
Playing ball on ground	McCaw	1
Collapsing maul	Retallick/Franks	1
Scrum	McCaw	1
Taking player in air	Read	1
TOTAL		11

Argentina Penalty Offences
Tackled player	3
Ruck off feet	2
Ruck offside	2
Playing ball on ground	1
Scrum	1
TOTAL	9

Turnovers Conceded by NZ
Knock-ons	Naholo(3), Williams(2), Nonu, Perenara, Thrush*, McCaw, Crotty*	10
Pass	Read, McCaw, Slade*	3
Scrum	Through 90 deg	1
TOTAL		14

Turnovers Conceded by Argentina
Knock-ons	1
Spilled	1
Forward pass	1
Tackle (stripped)	1
Scrum	2
TOTAL	6

Breakdown turnovers won by NZ
Tackle	McCaw, Kaino, Perenara	3
TOTAL		3

First 3 to Breakdown	Total	Per half
McCaw	42	24+18
Retallick	26	14+12
Kaino	21	12+9
Woodcock	17	13+4
Mealamu	17	10+7
O Franks	16	14+2
Read	16	11+5
Romano	14	11+3
Piutau	10	6+4
Thrush*	7
Carter	6	4+2
Dagg	6	5+1
Taylor*	5
Crockett*	5
Perenara	3	1+2
Nonu	3	3+0
Laulala*	3
Messam*	2
Williams	2	1+1
Naholo	2	2+0
Ellis*	1
Crotty*	1

Forward ball carries	Carries
Read	8
Romano	7
McCaw	3
Mealamu	3
Franks	3
Retallick	3
Kaino	3
Taylor*	2
Woodcock	2
Crockett*	1
TOTAL	35

Completed Tackles and Assists	Tackles	Assists
Retallick	12 (5+7)	1 (1+0)
Read	11 (4+7)	3 (2+1)
McCaw	10 (6+4)	3 (0+3)
Williams	10 (2+8)	1 (0+1)
Romano	10 (3+7)	0
Kaino	8 (4+4)	1 (1+0)
Franks	7 (4+3)	2 (1+1)
Perenara	6 (3+3)	0
Mealamu	4 (2+2)	5 (3+2)
Woodcock	3 (2+1)	5 (2+3)
Carter	3 (1+2)	1 (1+0)
Slade*	3	0
Taylor*	2	2
Laulala*	2	0
Messam*	2	0
Piutau	2 (0+2)	0
Thrush*	1	0
Nonu	1 (1+0)	1 (0+1)
Dagg		1 (1+0)
TOTAL	98	26

Missed and Slipped Tackles
Franks	2
Naholo	2
Woockcok	1
Mealamu	1
McCaw	1
Ellis*	1
TOTAL	8

NZ Line-outs	Won	From
First half	3	3
Second half	1	1
TOTAL	4	4

NZ Line-out Jumpers	Won	From
Read	1	1
Kaino	1	1
Retallick	1	1
Quick throw	1	1

Argentina Line-outs	Won	From
First half	4	4
Second half	9	9
TOTAL	13	13

NZ Scrums	Won	From
First half	4	4
Second half	2	3
TOTAL	6	7

Argentina Scrums	Won	From
First half	3	3
Second half	3	5
TOTAL	6	8

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