Captain of the XV of France, Antoine Dupont made some criticism of his team …
This is the big meeting of the 6 nations 2025 tournament. The XV of France will play a decisive match, this Saturday, March 8, against Ireland, in Dublin, as part of the 4th day of the competition. And the Blues like the XV of the clover play big in this shock. For the undefeated Irish, it is the Grand Chelem who looms in the event of a victory, since they will then move to Rome, for a last more affordable match against Italy in mid-March.
For the XV of France, beating Ireland, after having failed in London from a point, would save the tournament and even hope for a final victory, before a finish against Scotland on March 15, at the Stade de France. And Antoine Dupont knows that his team is eagerly awaited and must respond present to finally reward this golden generation that we have been talking about for years.
A golden generation which, unfortunately, does not gain much. The only real result and not least: the Grand Chelem during the 2022 edition of the 6 nations. But since then, few trophies to put in the tooth. A very bitter observation made by the Olympic rugby champion at 7 during the Paris 2024 Olympics.
“Frustrating, it’s always the same word that comes back,” he says. “We have a group that is very ambitious, aware of its qualities, but also aware that we do not have the results that meet the potential of our group. We are hungry to win but 80% of victory when you do not win a trophy, that does not mean much,” said the captain of the XV from France to RMC Sport a few days ago.
After the defeat in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, in France, against South Africa and the failure of the 6 nations in 2024, in favor of the Irish, the time has finally come to take revenge and reward the generation Ramos, Ntamack, pendaur, Bielle Biarrey … and Antoine Dupont is visibly hungry and wants to end in beauty.
“It’s been two years since I played in the tournament and I have the impression that it was an eternity,” also explained the star to the 55 selections. “The last edition for the group was frustrating, but the one before, in which I had participated, had also been,” analyzed Antoine Dupont before this decisive shock against the XV of the clover.