Antoine dupont injury
Fabien Galthie confirms that it’s a ‘serious’ knee injury for Antoine Dupont.
Also says that France will be citing Tadhg Beirne for the clean out that caused it.
It’s a bad one, off his feet and at the lower limbs.
“I don’t have good news. He’s got a knee injury and he could not get back on to the field,” Galthie said at halftime.
Fabien Galthie confirms that it’s a ‘serious’ knee injury for Antoine Dupont.
Also says that France will be citing Tadhg Beirne for the clean out that caused it.
It’s a bad one, off his feet and at the lower limbs.#GuinnessM6N pic.twitter.com/Hvc8sGxXc9
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Antoine Dupont knee injury update
“We’re suspecting something serious. He’s suffering,” he added in the post-match news conference.
Galthie said France had recommended that the two Irish defenders who made contact with Dupont — Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter — should appear before the disciplinary commission.
“We want explanations, so we’ve named two players. We have to protect our players. There are means, there are rules… There is some kind of anger.
“I’m not going to pass judgement on the quality of the refereeing today,” he added when asked about Angus Gardner’s decisions.
“I think it’s just a rugby incident where Tadhg cleans out someone in front of Antoine Dupont and he gets hit on the back of that,” he said.
Nasty looking knee injury for France’s Antoine Dupont – heavy contact causes knee to collapse in quite significantly.
Main concern by video is at least an MCL injury with ACL damage at risk as well. Likely to be lengthy recovery ahead.
— NRL PHYSIO (@nrlphysio) March 8, 2025
“This happens unfortunately. We definitely have moved away and players have a real awareness now of cleaning out on the lower limb of a player, which could create that type of injury that might have happened today, but that wasn’t the case.”
“Tadhg cleans out someone in front of Antoine Dupont and he gets hit off the back of it. It happens, unfortunately. Players have a real awareness now of clearing out on the lower limb of the player, which can create that type of injury, but that wasn’t the case. He was securing his own ball and not making contact on Dupont. It’s just one of those things unfortunately. It happens in the game.”
Antoine Dupont’s season is over after sustaining an ACL rupture in France’s Six Nations victory over Ireland.
He will be out for 6-8 months.#IREvFRA #GuinnessM6N #SixNationsRugby #SixNations2025
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