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The Toulouse team will play the Top 14 final on Friday June 28 against Union Bordeaux-Bègles on the pitch at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille. An enclosure that leaves Antoine Dupont with very bad memories.
Will the scrum-half finally have a good evening on the pitch at the Vélodrome? We hope so for him because his history with the Marseille stadium is not very happy for the moment. If Antoine Dupont never played with the Toulouse jersey in the Marseille city, he played two matches with the XV of France and each time, it went badly.
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The start of this dirty story dates back to November 2022 first, during a test match against South Africa. That evening, Antoine Dupont tried to contest an aerial ball from his former Stade Toulousain teammate, Cheslin Kolbe. Slightly late, the Toulouse player collides with the winger in the air. The referee’s decision was not long in coming: exclusion. This is also the only red card taken by Antoine Dupont during his entire career.
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A little less than a year later, the Blues returned to the Vélodrome as part of the World Cup to face Namibia. Shortly after half-time, the scrum-half was caught close by a head tackle from center Johan Deysel. Shock among the Blues, the captain suffers from a maxillo-zygomatic fracture which will keep him away from the field at the worst times.
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He will return with a mask but will not be able to avoid his team’s defeat against South Africa in the quarter-finals. This Friday, the time has come to ward off fate.
