The high-flying performance achieved by Antoine Dupont on Saturday during the historic victory of the Blues at Twickenham particularly marked the spirits across the Channel.
Antoine Dupont was not the best Blue, Saturday, during the tricolor festival against the XV de la Rose. Thomas Ramos was also elected man of the match and Thibaud Flament, omnipresent and author of two tries, could also have received the trophy. However, the scrum-half delivered a real recital and English observers were ecstatic.
“It’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane at the same time”thus Matt Dawson at the microphone of Radio 5, struck the former English international, decidedly very lively, adding: “A while ago he was off the ruck, he turned around and he scanned the field in a phenomenal way. It was like watching Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator, it was almost digital…”
It was ridiculous and endless
And the story was the same in the mouth of the former XV de la Rose opener, Paul Grayson: “It’s as if we had compressed a Chevrolet to make a little scrum half. He is extremely strong. He is a player totally apart from the others. His production, his kicking, the 50-22 from the left foot… It was ridiculous and endless. » Antoine Dupont also impressed former England scrum-half Natasha Hunt. “He is at the top of his game right now”she enthused on BBC Two.
The praise was obviously just as numerous on this side of the Channel. “When he has a pack of forwards that doesn’t advance too much, he does quite well, but when he has a pack of forwards that lays his opponent flat, as was the case against England, there, he is unplayable. Saturday was exceptional. notably greeted Guy Accoceberry in the columns of Sud-Ouest.
