Dupont, even the opponents are fans
Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 3:52 p.m.
Author of the Stade Toulousain qualification test against Ulster, Antoine Dupont impressed his opponents, while his coach was more balanced.
It was however not the best Antoine Dupont. Which is still very strong. Saturday evening at Ravenhill Stadium, in the knockout stages of the Champions Cup, Stade Toulousain, defeated at home in the first leg (20-26), suffered against Ulster. Hugo Mola’s players ended up winning at the very end of the match (30-23), thanks to a trial by Dupont six minutes from the siren. Repositioned as opener after the exit of Tim Nanai-Williams, the scrum half of the XV of France, voted best player in the world last December, gave way to three opponents before going to flatten in the in-goal . A fanfare finish after a slightly more complicated ename, as his coach later admitted.
The Ulster coach under the spell
“There are perhaps two Ulster trials that are for ‘Toto’ but he brings us so much that, the day he is a little less brilliant, we find fault. He just has to sometimes put a little more simplicity, said Mola, Midi-Olympique report. There remains a boy who, at that moment of the match, is capable of making the difference.” And it is above all this aspect that we have retained in the camp opposite, as named Dan MacFarland. “They are under pressure and he finds touches from sixty yards with his bad foot. He has a ball in our 22 yards with a duel to win and he plants the winning try. That’s why he is the best player of the world”, said the Ulster coach. Munster, future opponent of Haut-Garonne in the quarter-finals of European competition, is warned…