Scotland 56–10 Portugal, 9 September 2007

Men's Rugby World Cup 2007 · Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne · 9 September 2007Head-to-head

Full-time report

SCOScotland56

PORPortugal10

Scotland won by 46 points.Half-time 28–10 · Tries 8–1 · POR 1 yellow card

Pitch map

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Totals only: no positions in the feed

Tacklesmademissed

SCO6510

POR11629

Kicks at goalconv.pensdrops

SCO8/80/00

POR1/11/10

← Portugal attack · Scotland attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band

Tackle positions are not in the feed for this match.
Kick positions are not in the feed for this match.
Ruck, line break, turnover, lineout and kick-from-hand positions are not in the feed for this match.
Tries with a dashed ring have no recorded position, so they sit in the in-goal at the end that side attacked.

Tries and goal kicks as a table

Min	Team	What	Score
13′	Scotland	Try, Rory Lamont, converted	5–0
15′	Scotland	Try, Rory Lamont, converted	12–0
24′	Scotland	Try, Scott Lawson, converted	19–0
29′	Portugal	Try, Pedro Carvalho, converted	21–5
31′	Scotland	Try, Rob Dewey, converted	26–7
58′	Scotland	Try, Dan Parks, converted	33–10
61′	Scotland	Try, Hugo Southwell, converted	40–10
69′	Scotland	Try, Kelly Brown, converted	47–10
77′	Scotland	Try, Ross Ford, converted	54–10

Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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13′Rory Lamont15′Rory Lamont24′Scott Lawson29′Pedro Carvalho31′Rob Dewey58′Dan Parks61′Hugo Southwell69′Kelly Brown77′Ross Ford

SCO

Team stats

POR

64%Possession36%

69%Territory31%

109Carries66

621Metres gained210

29Defenders beaten10

159Passes69

18Offloads9

65Tackles made116

10Tackles missed29

77/84Rucks won53/55

17/19Lineouts won6/13

8/8Mauls won3/3

3Turnovers won7

8Penalties conceded11

Goal kicking
SCO conversions 8/8, penalties 0/0 · POR conversions 1/1, penalties 1/1. Pale segment = set piece lost.

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Line-ups

Scotland

1Allan JacobsenProp
2Scott LawsonHooker
3Euan MurrayProp
4Nathan HinesSecond row
5Scott MurraySecond row
6Jason WhiteFlanker
7Allister HoggFlanker
8Simon TaylorNumber 8
9Mike BlairScrum-half
10Dan ParksFly-half
11Simon WebsterWing
12Rob DeweyCentre
13Marcus Di RolloCentre
14Sean LamontWing
15Rory LamontFull-back
16Ross FordBench
17Gavin KerrBench
18Scott MacLeodBench
19Kelly BrownBench
20Rory LawsonBench
21Chris PatersonBench
22Hugo SouthwellBench

Portugal

Match officials

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Context

All-time, Scotland 3–0 Portugal in 3 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Scotland going in

Portugal going in

Previous meeting: 28 November 1998, Scotland 85–11 Portugal
Next meeting on record: 16 November 2024

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.