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The “red and black” will challenge the Irish on Saturday May 25 in London, in the final of the Champions Cup. Leinstermen who, since 2019, have beaten the Haut-Garonnais three times.
The dream final will therefore take place. The hierarchy of the group phase respected, the Toulouse No.1 will find its Irish runner-up for a meeting which inevitably promises to be huge. Because history puts the team that has deprived them of three finals since 2019 back on the path of Toulouse.
When giving his feelings about what his reunion with the province of Dublin inspired him a few minutes after dismissing Harlequins, Antoine Dupont wanted to be more factual. “We are one match away from being able to lift a trophy, something we have been training for every day for 10 months this season and for several years,” said the Toulouse scrum-half and captain. “We know it is very hard to get there , that the last step is certainly the hardest, against an opponent that we know very well, difficult to maneuver and who wants to win as much as we do since he has lost twice in the final too. particular context for which we will have to prepare ourselves. We know them very well, they know us very well, it’s up to us to prepare for the match in the best possible way to quite simply emerge victorious.
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“I don’t know who is the happiest or unhappiest in history”
But the Haut-Pyrénées was not fixated on this necessarily special meeting given the recent history between the two most successful teams in the competition. However, he did not admit to being surprised to find Leinster in London. “We suspected when the tables fell that he would find himself in this place because of his qualities and his appetite for this competition. Whoever it is, it remains a final. Obviously, there will be one happy and one disappointed at the They want to win it as much as we do. We stopped twice in the semi against them, but they arrived in the final not to win it so I don’t know who is happier or unhappy in the end. story. It will be a final, there is no other word.
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