Antoine Dupont put at the controls of the Stade of France not only as the leader of a giant selection, but as the most unbalanced player in the world. The 2024 edition was skipped for a good cause, to manufacture an Olympic gold in Paris, so he returned to the great rugby classic as a national legend, a status that corroborated making Wales a hobby, orchestrating the dominance of his heavy front and surprising With his devil starts. He presented his credentials before an opponent who confirmed his low hours fitting a 43-0 bleeding.
Dupont’s influence on a sport with so many specialists is omnipresent. As soon as two minutes had passed when he sneaked under sticks among the wardrobes of the Welsh defense, capable, even if only by number, to avoid posing. It was an exercise of harassment and demolition, with the medium-melé throwing its strikers over and over again, like a rider that asks for more rhythm to their horses. , that was roughly as soon as those charges became a music that did not stop sounding. There were not enough players to weap and cover the holes on the other side. Dupont took advantage of it, who wins seconds to the present with his vision, with a perfect kick to the right flank that fell into his arms to Théo Attissogbé wing in the brand area. First essay.
The second would arrive in another electric play in which the Welsh fell short. For Dupont’s speed, they know how to interpret their rear companions. The example is Thomas Ramos, the defender who won the position for his defense and who has become a total player. It was he who gave the last push with his lateral career to enable Louis Bielle-Biarrey and then kick the conversion himself.
Welsh pride could not even emerge after fitting 14 points in just over five minutes. Because the French lead not only attacks, but is granite when he does not have the ball. It was symptomatic that Ben Thomas would limit himself to kicking the ball to the center in one of his few incursions to 22 rival, removing it from him without any mordant. The 2024 wooden spoon – all the matches made – has not uploaded its price.
. After a couple of defensive kicks from Wales to keep the fire from his plot, he released the ball, threatened to throw the strikers and broke the line with a prodigious lateral acceleration. Once in an open field, he dodged a couple of rivals and gave an easy assistance to Attissogbé. Despite the decline of Damien Penaud, its top gunner, France assured the Bonus point of the four essays to the intermediate (28-0). Enough for his legend, who spent the second part with the sweatshirt on the bench. From there he would see three more rehearsals and the red of his partner Ntamack, the only macula of the night. But .
