Toulouse: Dupont appreciated
Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Monday, September 05, 2022 at 12:29 p.m.
While Stade Toulousain ended up overthrowing UBB on Sunday evening in Gironde (26-25), Antoine Dupont said he was satisfied with this good reaction, but now hoped to “rise in power”.
The first day of Top 14 ended with fireworks on Sunday evening in a sold-out Chaban-Delmas stadium, where 33,000 spectators had taken place for this clash between Bordeaux-Bègles and Toulouse. And they weren’t disappointed with the show, even though it was Stade Toulousain who ended up winning at the end of the suspense (26-25). In this duel between the unfortunate semi-finalists of the last championship, it was UBB who long believed they had the victory, with a significant advantage at the break (22-9). But the visitors revolted after the break, tipping the match in three minutes on the hour mark. To the delight of Antoine Dupont, who nevertheless regretted the Toulouse approximations, which could have been expensive.
“We lacked continuity, we made a very good start, 20 very good first minutes and then we rested a bit. In attack, it was approximate. The Bordeaux people got back into the match like that. They scored three tries who hurt us vis-à-vis the score, regretted the tricolor scrum-half at the microphone of Canal +. We showed a good state of mind, we pulled ourselves together. not easy. It was important to play a big game here to start our season because Bordeaux was a big player in the championship. We’ll be able to build on that, but we’re not going to rest on it. We will try to ramp up over the next few weekends because we still have the margin.” A victory to be confirmed next Sunday, with the reception of RC Toulon at the Ernest-Wallon stadium.