Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Thursday October 10, 2024 at 3:38 p.m.
Back in training with Stade Toulousain on Monday, Antoine Dupont will make his comeback in the Top 14 this Saturday evening at home against Clermont. Antoine Mola, his coach, is delighted, without agreeing to say for the moment whether his star player will start the match or not.
No need to look very far for the information of the week from Stade Toulouse and Ernest-Wallon. This is obviously the return to training of the local and French rugby superstar: Antoine Dupont. All the better news for the double French champions and their coach Ugo Mola as the star scrum half of the Rouge et Noir is already ready to return to competition and this comeback is planned for Saturday evening with the arrival in the Ville Rose de Clermont in the evening (9:05 p.m.) for the 6th day of Top 14. However, it is impossible to know to this day if the one who had greatly contributed this summer to the coronation of the French 7s team during the Olympic Games of Paris 2024 when he had precisely made an infidelity to the XV of France in this sense will begin the meeting on Saturday against the Clermontois of the future retiree Benjamin Urdapilleta or not. On Thursday, Mola would not say anything about his intentions on this subject. “I don’t know. You’ll see that tomorrow evening with the announcement of the lineup. There may be a chance that he plays, or not. We’ll see that. It will be decided tomorrow (Friday), during setting up”, replied the manager, with a smile on his lips nonetheless as if he already had an idea of what awaited his master to play on the occasion of his big return to the pitches of the Top 14.
Mola: “That Antoine comes back is obviously a very good thing”
For Mola, delighted to be able to count on his best player again, this is the main thing, just as it is the only thing that matters in his eyes. “That Antoine comes back is a very good thing, obviously for all of us (…) He is a player who no longer needs to be introduced, and there are those ten or fifteen percent more than he gives to his partners through the trust he inspires and which reflects on others.” An apartment which could however wait until the second half against Clermont. There is indeed a good chance that Dupont will start on the bench on Saturday evening. Response Friday at 6:00 p.m. “He has returned to the workforce and so he is applying,” nevertheless recalls Mola, who is rubbing his hands in advance.
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