DUBLIN, Eire — Fabien Galthié fears Antoine Dupont has suffered a severe knee harm, and condemned the incident which led to the French captain being compelled off within the first half of France’s 42-27 win in opposition to Eire in Dublin on Saturday.
Dupont, broadly thought to be the world’s greatest participant, was compelled off within the twenty ninth minute with a knee harm. He was visibly upset, with substitute scrum-half Maxime Lucu saying Dupont was in tears within the altering room.
Dupont sustained the harm as Andrew Porter and Tadhg Beirne cleared him out at a ruck. Beirne fell on Dupont’s knee, and Dupont’s knee buckled.
Simon Easterby, the Eire interim head coach, described it as a “rugby incident” however post-match, Galthié was livid. Galthié additionally turned consideration on Eire wing Calvin Nash, for his unlawful hit on Pierre-Louis Barassi within the second half which led to Nash getting a yellow card, and Barassi compelled off.
“There’s a suspicion of a fairly severe knee harm to Antoine,” Galthié stated. “He’s struggling — for instance it how it’s. I do not wish to go into particulars, primarily because of medical confidentiality. We’ve cited two gamers — Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter — in our post-match report. We’ve highlighted [Calvin] Nash to the citing commissioner for [the incident with] Pierre-Louis Barassi, who didn’t reply nicely to the HIA protocol. We had gamers who by no means got here again on.
“We’re indignant and we wish a proof; so, we’ve cited two gamers. We should defend our gamers. There are guidelines, laws … there is a kind of anger.
“I don’t need to judge the standard of refereeing as we speak.”
Galthié added to France 2 TV: “We really feel dangerous for [Antoine]. When it comes to the motion, in my view it was reprehensible, and there are methods to review and analyse it. We really feel for him as we speak. He’s struggling and we’re struggling with him.”
Lucu stated: “Antoine’s harm damage us slightly, we needed to choose up the torch … We all know what Antoine provides to the group. We needed to pay him slightly tribute, we noticed him in tears within the locker room.”
Easterby was requested concerning the incident, and stated there was no intention of foul play. “Tadhg [Beirne] cleans out somebody in entrance of Antoine Dupont and he will get hit off the again of it. It occurs, sadly,” Easterby stated.
“Gamers have an actual consciousness now of clearing out on the decrease limb of the participant, which might create that kind of harm, however that wasn’t the case. He was securing his personal ball and never making contact on Dupont. Sadly that occurs. It is simply a kind of issues sadly. It occurs within the sport.”
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