2023-11-25 14:14:48
By SV
Published 21 minutes ago, Updated 11 minutes ago
Antoine Dupont SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS
In a cross-interview with Thierry Henry, Antoine Dupont returned to the defeat of the Blues in the quarter-final of the World Cup against South Africa. The Toulouse player says in particular that he rewatched the match the next day in order to eliminate the feeling of injustice linked to certain refereeing decisions.
The Blues still have it in their throats. The defeat against South Africa in the quarter-final of the World Cup (28-29) is a wound that will take time to heal for Fabien Galthié’s men. In a cross interview with Thierry Henry for the media Bros, the captain of the XV of France Antoine Dupont returned to the immense disillusionment with the Springboks. While “Titi” says he never rewatched the defeat of the French team in the 2006 World Cup final against Italy on penalties, the scrum half from Stade Toulouse engaged in a confidence.
You always have this impression on the pitch, which is not necessarily the same afterwards.
Antoine Dupont
“I watched it the next morning (the South Africa match) because I couldn’t sleep. I slept for a few hours, then I couldn’t do it anymore. I said to myself “okay, I’ll watch it now, then I won’t watch it anymore”admitted Dupont. “It was especially the refereeing stuff that I wanted to see again. In 2019 we lost the quarter-final by one point, and I never watched it afterwards. But this one (from 2023), I wanted to see again. I had to, I think I needed it. You always have this impression on the pitch, which is not necessarily the same afterwards. It was to see if this feeling of injustice that we had was real… In the end it’s useless, it has no use, except perhaps to accept more easily , or understand certain things…”added the best player in the Top 14.
A few minutes after the loss of the French XV against the Boks, Dupont criticized the decisions of New Zealand referee Ben O’Keeffe, notably by launching “I’m not sure that the arbitration was up to the challenge”. This time, it seems that the native of Lannemezan, who will participate in the Paris Olympics with the French rugby sevens team, has finally turned the page. It remains to be seen if this is the case for his teammates in the XV of France…
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