Antoine Dupont, the world at his feet

Antoine Dupont did not shy away from his pleasure on Saturday after Stade Toulousain’s new coronation in the Champions Cup final. “It’s just pure joy. These are emotions that are hard to describe through words. We train hard for this and we know that, when we are this close to the trophy, we have to make it to the end, he confided. It really is pure joy. »

And the Toulouse scrum half had all the more reason to rejoice as he delivered a real recital against his beast nemesis, to the point of being elected man of the match. And once is not customary, if the former Castres shone, it was above all in defense. Consequence of a completely closed match preventing big flights. The native of Lannemezan certainly covered 60 meters with ball in hand or made 58 passes, but his most impressive statistics are his nine tackles made and especially his four balls scraped from the ground. A figure worthy of a forward. An XXL performance that blew the world of rugby away.

Antoine Dupont, an unreal performance

“Antoine Dupont changes his sport like Cruyff changed football or Federer changed tennis”, wrote the Telegraph, adding: “The little Toulouse general is the player you will tell your children and grandchildren that you had the privilege of seeing in the flesh. » Former Irish player turned journalist, Murray Kinsella is equally impressed. “Antoine Dupont is definitely the best player I have seen in my life”he wrote on Twitter.

“Congratulations Toulouse. Unreal match and Antoine Dupont on another planet », for his part wrote Matt Giteau, the former Australian player. Scottish journalist, Andy McGeady was equally blown away by the performance of the Toulouse number nine. “Antoine Dupont signed one of the greatest performances by a player in any sport. Yet he didn’t even score a single point. It was unreal. He is magnificent “, he said while in Wales, the local press saw him as a better scrum-half than the legend Gareth Edwards. The world is blown away.