Date : Saturday, September 19, 2015 Kick Off : 17:45 Venue : Brighton Community Stadium Tournament : Rugby World Cup Round : pool stage
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South Africa

Japan

Match South Africa vs Japan

Match between South Africa squad and Japan squad was played at Brighton Community Stadium as of round #1 of Rugby World Cup .

Lineups

Game sheet South Africa vs Japan
YC	Penalty	Conversion	Try	Players		Players	Try	Conversion	Penalty
				Tendai MTAWARIRA	1	Masataka MIKAMI
			32'	Bismarck DU PLESSIS	2	Shota HORIE
				Jannie DU PLESSIS	3	Kensuke HATAKEYAMA
			43'	Lood DE JAGER	4	Luke THOMPSON
				Victor MATFIELD	5	Hitoshi ONO
			17'	Francois LOUW	6	Michael LEITCH	29'
				Pieter-Steph DU TOIT	7	Michael BROADHURST
				Schalk BURGER	8	Hendrik TUI
				Ruan PIENAAR	9	Fumiaki TANAKA
	56'	18' 44'		Pat LAMBIE	10	Kosei ONO
				Lwazi MVOVO	11	Kotaro MATSUSHIMA
				Jean DE VILLIERS	12	Harumichi TATEKAWA
				Jesse KRIEL	13	Male SA'U
				Bryan HABANA	14	Akihito YAMADA
				Zane KIRCHNER	15	Ayumu GOROMARU	68'	30' 69'	7' 42' 48' 52' 59'

			61'	Adriaan STRAUSS	16	Takeshi KIZU
				Trevor NYAKANE	17	Keita INAGAKI
78'				Coenie OOSTHUIZEN	18	Hiroshi YAMASHITA
				Eben ETZEBETH	19	Shinya MAKABE
				Siya KOLISI	20	Amanaki MAFI
				Fourie DU PREEZ	21	Atsushi HIWASA
	72'	62'		Handré POLLARD	22	Yu TAMURA
				JP PIETERSEN	23	Karne HESKETH	80'
Replacements
DU PLESSIS 🡇 🡅 OOSTHUIZEN 53'					#1	9' HATAKEYAMA 🡇 🡅 YAMASHITA
DU PLESSIS 🡇 🡅 STRAUSS 53'					#2	18' YAMASHITA 🡇 🡅 HATAKEYAMA
MTAWARIRA 🡇 🡅 NYAKANE 53'					#3	45' TUI 🡇 🡅 MAFI
DU TOIT 🡇 🡅 KOLISI 56'					#4	53' ONO 🡇 🡅 MAKABE
PIENAAR 🡇 🡅 DU PREEZ 57'					#5	53' HATAKEYAMA 🡇 🡅 YAMASHITA
LAMBIE 🡇 🡅 POLLARD 57'					#6	57' MIKAMI 🡇 🡅 INAGAKI
DE JAGER 🡇 🡅 ETZEBETH 67'					#7	66' TANAKA 🡇 🡅 HIWASA
MVOVO 🡇 🡅 PIETERSEN 69'					#8	69' HORIE 🡇 🡅 KIZU
NYAKANE 🡇 🡅 MTAWARIRA 79'					#9	72' ONO 🡇 🡅 TAMURA
KOLISI 🡇 🡅 DU PLESSIS 79'					#10	78' YAMADA 🡇 🡅 HESKETH

Interesting datas⁽¹⁾

South Africa	VS	Japan
927 kg (115.88 kg)	Pack weight (average)	879 kg (109.88 kg)
30 ans	Forwards average age	30 ans
28 ans	Backs average age	27 ans
206 cm	Tallest player	196 cm
South Africa : 100% (15/15)	Differents nationalities for starters	Japan : 67% (10/15) New Zealand : 27% (4/15) Fiji : 7% (1/15)
South Africa : 100% (23/23)	Differents nationalities for all the team	Japan : 70% (16/23) New Zealand : 22% (5/23) Fiji : 4% (1/23) Tonga : 4% (1/23)

(1) Calculations based on data in the database, which may be incomplete.

Timeline

Score : 0 - 0, 0 - 3, 5 - 3, 7 - 3, 7 - 8, 7 - 10, 12 - 10, 12 - 13, 17 - 13, 19 - 13, 19 - 16, 19 - 19, 22 - 19, 22 - 22, 27 - 22, 29 - 22, 29 - 27, 29 - 29, 32 - 29, 32 - 34
Gap : 0, -3, +2, +4, -1, -3, +2, -1, +4, +6, +3, 0, +3, 0, +5, +7, +2, 0, +3, +3, -2