A difficult defeat to take… Sunday October 15, 2023, the South Africans, reigning world champions, won the match against the Blues. A terrible outcome for the players of the French Rugby team as everything only came down to one point.
As proof, at the final goal, the Fabien Galthié players took the blow on the pitch by remaining frozen on the pitch, stunned by this cruel defeat. A terrible disillusionment obviously felt as the captain of the team Antoine Dupont who was making his comeback after suffering a facial injury three weeks earlier.
Moreover, the 26-year-old sportsman did not fail to express his disappointment while criticizing the refereeing of the match in passing… “There are clear and obvious things that are easy to call and which weren’t. I don’t know if the match is lost on that, but in the crucial moments we could have had penalties. When there is an advance of 60 meters, these are still easy things to whistle. I don’t want to be the bitter person who complains about the refereeing because he lost, but I’m not sure that the arbitration was at the level of the stakes today”, he declared to journalists.
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Antoine Dupont in tears
A hot speech which preceded an equally sincere reaction on the pitch. And for good reason, at the end of the match, Antoine Dupont rushed to the stands of his loved ones in order to find comfort among his family. On the Web, a video of the player hugging his mother has also gone viral. Indeed, many Internet users have reacted to this upsetting video.
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