Cardiff Blues v Connacht PRO12 Preview

07 February 2017

Cardiff Blues v Connacht PRO12 Preview

Did you know?


  • Cardiff Blues have won only one of their last five Guinness PRO12 encounters: 27-16 at home to Newport Gwent Dragons on Boxing Day.

  • The Blues have won three of their last four matches at BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park in all tournaments since Ulster beat them there in the PRO12 on 3 December.

  • Connacht’s only victory in their last five matches was 66-21 at home to Zebre in the European champions Cup on 4 January.

  • The Irishmen’s only away victory in any tournament this season was 52-7 at Zebre in the champions Cup on 23 October.

  • Connacht won 18-7 when the two sides me at the Sportsground in round 9 and have never achieved a season’s double over Cardiff Blues whilst the only time they have beaten Blues in Cardiff was 26-22 in February 2013.


Overall Guinness PRO12 head to head record:
Played 27, Blues won 20, Connacht won 5 with 2 games drawn.

CARDIFF BLUES v CONNACHT RUGBY
Sunday February 12th 2017
At BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park
Kick off 1.05pm
Live on S4C
                                  

Referee: Marius Mitrea (FIR, 61st competition game)

Assistant Referees:  Elia Rizzo (FIR), Aled Evans (WRU)

Citing Commissioner: John Charles (WRU)

TMO: Stefano Penne (FIR)

 
































































HEAD TO HEAD - RECENT GUINNESS PRO12 MEETINGS
DateVenue

CB



Co


Cardiff Blues scorersConnacht scorers
Sat 3 May 14Sportsground

22



15


Lewis Jones(T) Gareth Davies(2C/P) Dan Fish(T) Penalty Try(T)Matt Healy(T) Robbie Henshaw(T) Miah Nikora(C/P)
Fri 3 Oct 14Sportsground

24



24


Rhys Patchell(3C/P) Macauley Cook(T) Sam Hobbs(T) Adam Thomas(T)Robbie Henshaw(T) Kieran Marmion(T) Craig Ronaldson(3C/P) Nathan White(T)
Fri 6 Mar 15BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park

18



17


Rhys Patchell(C/2P) Joaquin Tuculet(2T)Jake Heenan(T) Aly Muldowney(T) Craig Ronaldson(2C/P)
Sat 3 Oct 15Sportsground

31



36


Rhys Patchell(3C/P) Aled Summerhill(T) Gareth Davies(C) Dan Fish(T) Sam Hobbs(T) Josh Turnbull(T)Tiernan O'Halloran(T) Danie Poolman(T) Nepia Fox-Matamua(T) Jack Carty(4C/P) Kieran Marmion(T) Aly Muldowney(T)
Fri 4 Dec 15BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park

20



16


Rhys Patchell(2C/2P) Tom James(T) Manoa Vosawai(T)Ian Porter(T/P) Eoin McKeon(T) Jack Carty(P)
Fri 25 Nov 16Sportsground

7



18


Steve Shingler(C) Tom James(T)John Cooney(T/C/2P) Bundee Aki(T)

 

 

















































COMPARISONBluesConnacht
Last 3 PRO12 results:26 Dec - Dragons (H) W 27-1623 Dec - Ulster (A) L 7-23
 1 Jan - Scarlets (A) L 10-1531 Dec - Munster (H) L 9-16
 7 Jan - Glasgow (A) L 15-297 Jan - Ospreys (A) L 7-29
   
PRO12 2016/177th - W6 D0 L7 - 27pts8th - W4 D0 L8 - 21pts
Last 6 PRO12 formwlLWll (9pts)lWWlLl (11pts)
Top try scorer6 - Tom James4 - Niyi Adeolokun
Top points scorer84 - Steve Shingler68 - Jack Carty