Antoine Dupont - the unbearable wait
France are waiting on the fitness of Antoine Dupont who they hope will return by the World Cup quarter-finals.
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00:00 Antoine is our captain, he's the best player in the world, so we support him a lot, we think about him a lot.
00:09 But we've been confronted with this kind of situation before.
00:13 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
00:28 Look, this is where the game is going. Unintentional, it happened so quickly.
00:35 I mean, Dupont is not the tallest guy, and Jan is an absolute clean player, yet it was an accident. Unfortunate one.
00:48 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
01:15 Antoine Dupont, not only the man in which he's carried that leadership tag, the captain's armband, but the actual contribution that he's made on the field, both at local level for Toulouse and then for the French.
01:29 You see how he almost single-handedly wins games on his own, and how the combination that he creates in and around him is something that inspires that whole French side.
01:39 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
01:49 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
02:17 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
02:44 How do you feel about the game against Juventus?
03:03 If he's gone, there's no doubt he'd be a loss. It'd be a shame to see if he's out of the tournament, because he's a brilliant player and he adds to the tournament. I hope he's okay. See what happens in the quarter-finals.
03:18 See what happens in the quarter-finals.