Toulouse / Dupont: “A hyper positive match”
Mathieu WARNIER, Media365, published on Sunday December 18, 2022 at 6:20 p.m.
Present at a press conference following Toulouse’s victory against the Sale Sharks in the Champions Cup, Antoine Dupont described his team’s attacking performance but assured that efforts should not be relaxed during the last two matches of the group stage.
Toulouse continued their clear round in the Champions Cup. After Munster in Ireland, it was the Sale Sharks who folded and then broke against the offensive armada led by Antoine Dupont. Author of two of the seven tries of his formation, the French international scrum half was in the oven and in the mill to allow Toulouse to sign a second success in two games. However, the interested party calls for caution as long as the group stage is not concluded. “The conditions were perfect to play. It’s a very positive game. But we have to be careful, we are only at two group matches out of four, he said during the press conference organized after the match. Certainly on a well launched of our competition, but there are still two important matches to try to appear at best and have a good draw for the final stages. »
Dupont: “We knew how to be pragmatic”
A meeting which was marked by an offensive festival which the Toulouse, Antoine Dupont the first, did not expect regularly. “Given the Sale game last weekend, it would have been presumptuous to talk about offensive bonuses before the game, called the scrum-half in front of the press. We haven’t always had so much offensive performance. “A meeting in which the captain of the XV of France draws from the positive concerning the effectiveness of his training. “We have already scored a lot of tries several times this season, but it hadn’t always been very integrated, we had trouble finding each other, he said. This is what is positive today. We were able to be pragmatic and score on turnovers but also hold the ball and be quite good on our offensive game system. “Good provisions that Toulouse will have to confirm in mid-January during a trip to Sale, followed the following weekend by the reception of Munster.