He didn’t hang around to get into his final. Stade Toulousain captain Antoine Dupont launched his team by scoring, with force, the first try of this final Top 14 match of the season against Bordeaux-Bègles this Friday evening. The scrum-half and captain of the reigning French champions made the difference by resisting a tackle before tearing himself away to flatten in the in-goal area of the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, where the Brennus shield for this 2023-2024 season is exceptionally awarded.
A difference made from the sixth minute of play against the Girondins, outsiders against the recent European champions. The French rugby star is, in the test, also involved in the penultimate pass where he serves his second line Thibaud Flament to advance in the defense of the Union Bordeaux-Bègles. His first attempt in the Top 14 final which he is playing for the fourth time.
The 27-year-old did it again in the 23rd minute. Served in the middle, the scrum half adjusted his Bordeaux counterpart Maxime Lucu, whom he plays alongside in the French XV, with a little kick to lob him before running off to score a new try, the third of the meeting, in the Bordeaux goal. With, as a bonus, a nice little celebratory dive full of joy to flatten.
Antoine Dupont has the opportunity to win his fourth French championship title since his arrival in Toulouse after the 2019, 2021, 2023 and potentially this season. The player will then move on to the French rugby 7s team with which he will aim for the gold medal at the Paris Olympics this summer.
