Sometimes, because you have the entire pitch vision and your HR below 60 bpm , you watch players, and you think : "why didn't he make 20 meters pass or the transverse 40 meters kick to the winger....". Then, you watch Antoine Dupont, and you think " how the hell did he see the 50 meters cross kick after carrying the ball through 5 defenders". His game vision under strong intensity is outlandish.
Occasionally I wonder if Dupont is worth the hype he gets, as there's so much of it. This confirms that every single bit of praise is justified. The complete player!
@Xavier.Browney sorry I should have said of the professional era, hard to compare from then to now but Eales was amazing however still think dupont has more influence on games than anyone else has
there are great players in all eras he is perhaps the greatest of that one which is already very good but Serge Blanco, Jonah Lomu or Jonny Wilkinson for example they also marked their era comparing them is impossible and for me a bit stupid
the first action is the best examples of having someone playing at a different level: is like watching a videogame where the player has all 99 skills. I think he just sees the game in slow motion compared to the other players, at this point best player EVER no doubt.
@@Cookie_Ninja14 there is absolutely no correlation between the best individual and the best team in my opinion, the greatest of all time could play for Sweden and he would still be the best.
His vision is nothing short of incredible, creating that try from nothing 0:15 Dude is the full package, love watching him play, electric. Great edit as always Andrew, cheers!
Pas fan du rugby Francais😂 Certainement britanniques. Ça vous va bien l arbitrage😂 Heureusement parcque des coupe européenne vous n en auriez pas beaucoup gagné. Je parle même pas des coupe du monde 95,2011,et la dernière 😂😂😂
Dupont is the definition of french flair. What a player!!! can't wait for him to get back on test rugby. I'm an AB's fan through and through but this guy has high rugby IQ, impossible to hate him. He makes rugby look easy.
Everybody is kind of a stretch to be diplomatic. Just like said above me BTL it's pretty unanimous in world rugby that he is the best player in the world including by many bokke fans, who have the Webb Ellis Cup to be satisfy with.
there are great players in all eras he is perhaps the greatest of that one which is already very good but Serge Blanco, Jonah Lomu or Jonny Wilkinson for example they also marked their era comparing them is impossible and for me a bit stupid
bro had a great performance against boks while being injured and without ntamack lmao and theses ones said that they own france with ntamack that was a whole another game
WE will never know. Dupont carries the team almost by himself but the victory was for SA, by a small margin some might argue but congrats to them anyway, a win is a win.😢
@@admiralstolensock3277 well Russell seemed completely offside on the cleareout that lead to that last play, but indeed the decision not to allow the try was creasy. But Scotland just had to pass the ball wide to score it
What's impressive is the variety. He does almost everything, including defensively. He's not playing similar tricks (even if at a great level) à la Russell who's also very fun to watch.
As a French supporter, it is the first time I re watched footage of the quarter final against South Africa. And I remember that among all the bull crap that we heard following the defeat, some said that Dupont had not been good on that game. Let me have a (still very bitter) laugh.
Many south African fans online sadly are incredibly thin skinned. One of the most beautiful countries but a considerable share of their fan base is incredibly toxic
Dupont was massive in the early stages against SA, those kicks behind into space opened our defence like no other team. Having said that the pressure got to France, once they were behind on the score board that famous French flare all but disappeared. And some French fans were way worse than anything I've seen from the Saffas.
In addition to his unrivaled talent, which in my opinion makes him the best of all time, I want to underline the human aspect, Dupont is first of all a very good person, very humble, attentive to human rights, and he is also very nice.
We get to understand 90% of what he does on the pit. Then we try to scoop deep in our memories and intelligence for those 10% left, not knowing exactly what happened let alone how he does it. Or if we ever witnessed that just once in our lives... But what is a sure fact : 100% of what Antoine Dupont does is (literally) game-changing stuff. Thanks Andrew... clever choices, yummy actions !
@@admiralstolensock3277 De Klerk never won the Champions Cup, and never close to win it. A team wins a tournament. Dupont had a far better game than De Klerk (who was good and is a great player) but SA were better as a team. Savea is the best 8 in the world even though he lost the WC final. We didn't wait for Messi to win the WC to consider him as the best player of the modern era, and probably ever. This video is a 10min career worth highlight of only half of his 2023-2034 season... this guy is a freak
Does everybody here know he is in the Rugby Sevens series now? Should be an Olympian come july. This first weekend of March 2024 is his second weekend (in LA) and his games so far have been hilarious. Major factor in beating the US team saturday night. He just exploded into action with the first try. Semifinal and probable final on Sunday.
Someone can explain me why he's not the best player of rugby in 2022 and 2023? Who is better than him? Seriously? Who is most important in the field in the World? No one...
The best thing about Dupont is how indignant and offended Kiwis are that ANYONE could possibly choose a rugby GOAT who doesn't wear black, even though he is, clearly and already, the most influential player we've ever seen. Dan Carter at his best was as brilliant, but Dupont does this every week. The idea that Pieter-Steph du Toit or Ardie Savea are this or last year's best player is ridiculous. They're great at what they do and exceptional athletes, but they're grunts. Rugby is a game, not track and field. Dupont is the Napoleon of rugby, and nobody is close to having his influence on the game.
When a team mate passes to Dupont who then scores, it is all Dupont. When Dupont passes to a team mate who then scores, it is still all Dupont. Why are his team mates not given more credit? He is a very good player, but he is not the only player who does well.
Guys search Benji Marsh,Sonny Bill,Quade Cooper,Jonah Lomu, Ma,a Nonu, Dan Carter,Fourie Du Preez, Victor Matfield,Sam Whitelock, Ritchie Mcaw, These players are some the Greatest ever to play the game The Northern Hemisphere can stop over hyping this guy Couldn't lead his team to a WC final so he ran to the 7s He should come play All Blacks at Home and SA at Home then we talk
lol jamais à mon avis la seule chance pour le Garrec d'avoir une place de titu en 9 avant la retraite de Dupont serait que celui ci bascule en 10 en edf
Sometimes, because you have the entire pitch vision and your HR below 60 bpm , you watch players, and you think : "why didn't he make 20 meters pass or the transverse 40 meters kick to the winger....". Then, you watch Antoine Dupont, and you think " how the hell did he see the 50 meters cross kick after carrying the ball through 5 defenders". His game vision under strong intensity is outlandish.
It means he has full ownership of the game of rugby
It's like he is seeing the match like we do on the television
Occasionally I wonder if Dupont is worth the hype he gets, as there's so much of it. This confirms that every single bit of praise is justified. The complete player!
Sick of hearing pundits and past players describe him as "one of the best of all time", we are very clearly witnessing the greatest ever right now
John eales says hello
@Xavier.Browney sorry I should have said of the professional era, hard to compare from then to now but Eales was amazing however still think dupont has more influence on games than anyone else has
DC is the 🐐. No disrespect to Dupont.
there are great players in all eras he is perhaps the greatest of that one which is already very good but Serge Blanco, Jonah Lomu or Jonny Wilkinson for example they also marked their era comparing them is impossible and for me a bit stupid
À son poste, c'est le MEILLEUR AU MONDE!!! 💙🤍❤️
the first action is the best examples of having someone playing at a different level: is like watching a videogame where the player has all 99 skills.
I think he just sees the game in slow motion compared to the other players, at this point best player EVER no doubt.
yea he is actually the GOAT
@@dcmj3798 u cant be called the goat w/o having won a WC. He has to win Frances 1st one. Then I might agree w/ you
@@Cookie_Ninja14 there is absolutely no correlation between the best individual and the best team in my opinion, the greatest of all time could play for Sweden and he would still be the best.
@@Cookie_Ninja14 Jonah Lomu has been considered the GOAT for a long time and he hasn't won a WC. Yet saying he was the GOAT was perfectly rational
Sorry mate but a GOAT may not be in the best team to win a world cup ...@@Cookie_Ninja14
His vision is nothing short of incredible, creating that try from nothing 0:15 Dude is the full package, love watching him play, electric. Great edit as always Andrew, cheers!
That Bayonne match really proved to me Dupont is the biggest chad in rugby
He's already a legend... Not a fan of french rugby but this dude is phenomenal
Pas fan du rugby Francais😂
Certainement britanniques.
Ça vous va bien l arbitrage😂
Heureusement parcque des coupe européenne vous n en auriez pas beaucoup gagné. Je parle même pas des coupe du monde 95,2011,et la dernière 😂😂😂
In quarter final, he was clearly superior to Faf despite his injury.
🤝
Objectively Faf is washed
As opposed to the referee, clearly not in his best day.
NB : not my opinion, just a fact confirmed by World rugby.
Tbf Dupont was also dominated by Aaron Smith to open the tournament.
I think this man is actual Messi of rugby
Yup Finn might declare himself but Dupont really is the Messi
@@jonnybaynham1689bro Finn wasn’t being serious
Nope if Messi could defend he could be the Dupont of football
@@cameronbrickell6533no for sure and he's a good guy. Annoyingly the media have taken it seriously
Whats being the messi of something lol? Messis not even the best at his sport so that's a bs analogy
Dupont is the definition of french flair. What a player!!! can't wait for him to get back on test rugby. I'm an AB's fan through and through but this guy has high rugby IQ, impossible to hate him. He makes rugby look easy.
Everybody says that he is overhyped. But come on, look at that. Such a complete player with a flair and incredible vision on the game.
not everybody. Just a loud minority from South Africa :D
Everybody is kind of a stretch to be diplomatic. Just like said above me BTL it's pretty unanimous in world rugby that he is the best player in the world including by many bokke fans, who have the Webb Ellis Cup to be satisfy with.
Dupont is the greatest player to ever play rugby
there are great players in all eras he is perhaps the greatest of that one which is already very good but Serge Blanco, Jonah Lomu or Jonny Wilkinson for example they also marked their era comparing them is impossible and for me a bit stupid
I agree with you
He's almost as good as Aaron Smith
@@Mata-Miramar He is better than Aaron Smith , Dupont is the best of all time
@tonysutherlandh4651 Nup, Dan Carter is
He's actually a freak, some of these are absolutely bonkers! Hope he goes well in the Olympics
et ce fut une réussite
bro had a great performance against boks while being injured and without ntamack
lmao and theses ones said that they own france
with ntamack that was a whole another game
WE will never know. Dupont carries the team almost by himself but the victory was for SA, by a small margin some might argue but congrats to them anyway, a win is a win.😢
Thanks for the video. He is really insanely good.
He is still dominating conversations as France have melted without him in the 6N.
At nine or ten he is wonderful to watch.
until the ref bailed them out and screwed Scotland of a huge win against them.
@@admiralstolensock3277 well Russell seemed completely offside on the cleareout that lead to that last play, but indeed the decision not to allow the try was creasy. But Scotland just had to pass the ball wide to score it
Elite in every facet of the game. Wild
What's impressive is the variety. He does almost everything, including defensively. He's not playing similar tricks (even if at a great level) à la Russell who's also very fun to watch.
As a French supporter, it is the first time I re watched footage of the quarter final against South Africa. And I remember that among all the bull crap that we heard following the defeat, some said that Dupont had not been good on that game. Let me have a (still very bitter) laugh.
Many south African fans online sadly are incredibly thin skinned. One of the most beautiful countries but a considerable share of their fan base is incredibly toxic
Dupont was massive in the early stages against SA, those kicks behind into space opened our defence like no other team. Having said that the pressure got to France, once they were behind on the score board that famous French flare all but disappeared. And some French fans were way worse than anything I've seen from the Saffas.
On aurait dû gagner surtout. Même dans cette vidéo on peut voir des fautes des Sud-africains non sifflées. Ça a été une honte l'arbitrage ce jour-là.
If you lot weren't robbed with that bullshit penalty call on the halfway line everyone would have been talking about how ridiculously well he played
He made some errors in defence.
But in offence, he literally had one of the greatest first halves of any scrumhalf ever.
Toulouse is dominating as well, after a rough start with international games taking the entire first team away, but now its just a pleasure to watch
In addition to his unrivaled talent, which in my opinion makes him the best of all time, I want to underline the human aspect, Dupont is first of all a very good person, very humble, attentive to human rights, and he is also very nice.
The footage from the Namibia game makes me kind of sad. Who knows what would have happened in the QF if he wasn't injured...
I really don't understand the squad manager. Why dupont against Namibia ? I think it's really big mistake.
Simply, the King ! !!!
Nothing against some of the great 9's but he is by far the best 9 to pay the game
🤣 nothing you said ??
bro
a Dupont injured in quarter final was 2 times better than De Klerk
We get to understand 90% of what he does on the pit. Then we try to scoop deep in our memories and intelligence for those 10% left, not knowing exactly what happened let alone how he does it. Or if we ever witnessed that just once in our lives...
But what is a sure fact : 100% of what Antoine Dupont does is (literally) game-changing stuff.
Thanks Andrew... clever choices, yummy actions !
The beast, the rugby god!
Great video! Thanks for the work 🎉
His defensive's skill, no way !!!
Can kick efficiency with his two feet, total package.
7:45 should be a red to south africa, leading with the elbow. typical cheats.
Cry me a river😂
What a player ! Awesome
THE GOAT 🐐
Merci ❤
In addition to everything else Dupont does, he's the only true two-footed kicker in the sport
and to think he had a difficult post world cup return....
Depuis qu’il s’entraîne au rugby a 7 il a encore plus évolué
Mdrr comment tu peux voir ça il vient tout juste de commencer l’entraînement à 7, et il a pas joué avec Toulouse et la France depuis 😂😂
@@canardvc5052Ben non il a commencé a s’entraîner y a un moment déjà. Et contre bayonne il était clairement au dessus
@@canardvc5052sisi il s'est entrainé à 7 une période avant le match de bayonne
It's like he has an AI processor in his head trained just for rugby. His timing and situational awareness are inhuman.
Il méritait tellement de gagner la coupe du monde
L'erreur vient de sa titularisation contre la namibie.
The 6N is going to be turned up when he returns from sevens.
yes on va se régaler..
And SA compare him to Faf de Klerk… 🤦♂️
De klerk is a two time world champion? thats not something to be ashamed of..
@@admiralstolensock3277 yes bc the better team wins not the best players.
But saying Dupont is better than De Klerk is just fact
@@admiralstolensock3277 De Klerk never won the Champions Cup, and never close to win it. A team wins a tournament. Dupont had a far better game than De Klerk (who was good and is a great player) but SA were better as a team. Savea is the best 8 in the world even though he lost the WC final. We didn't wait for Messi to win the WC to consider him as the best player of the modern era, and probably ever. This video is a 10min career worth highlight of only half of his 2023-2034 season... this guy is a freak
De Clerk was playing on his own ?@@admiralstolensock3277
@@NormandieDiexAie, it is not even obvious the best team won ... when there is a one point gap
Antoine Dupont, c'est le Zinedine Zidane du rugby !!!!!
Je dirais bien au dessus ...
@@vtvt6656 non
The goat !
5:12 this is purely wonderfull
Does everybody here know he is in the Rugby Sevens series now? Should be an Olympian come july. This first weekend of March 2024 is his second weekend (in LA) and his games so far have been hilarious. Major factor in beating the US team saturday night. He just exploded into action with the first try. Semifinal and probable final on Sunday.
Je sais pas si c est le plus grand....les epoques sont différentes.
En tout cas c est un virtuose
THE BEST❤❤❤
Dupont c'est la Master class !!
Someone can explain me why he's not the best player of rugby in 2022 and 2023? Who is better than him? Seriously? Who is most important in the field in the World?
No one...
Hes plays like hes on crack! He's simply overpowered
He plays like a good NRL halfback, an Andrew Johns or Jonathan Thurston…Rugby purists will hate the comparison, but he’s very similar
So many forward passes in this video that sems to go unnoticed. Nonetheless what an amazing Player he is, top Quality.
Could well just be camera angle in fairness - plus you'll notice he often passes from well in front of his body to mitigate that
The best thing about Dupont is how indignant and offended Kiwis are that ANYONE could possibly choose a rugby GOAT who doesn't wear black, even though he is, clearly and already, the most influential player we've ever seen. Dan Carter at his best was as brilliant, but Dupont does this every week. The idea that Pieter-Steph du Toit or Ardie Savea are this or last year's best player is ridiculous. They're great at what they do and exceptional athletes, but they're grunts. Rugby is a game, not track and field. Dupont is the Napoleon of rugby, and nobody is close to having his influence on the game.
Un renard, une anguille, une guivre, un requin. Ce joueurs possède tous les attributs pour jouer à n'importe quel poste. Affolant.
Rocket man
Ultratop!!!
When a team mate passes to Dupont who then scores, it is all Dupont. When Dupont passes to a team mate who then scores, it is still all Dupont. Why are his team mates not given more credit? He is a very good player, but he is not the only player who does well.
Dupont a fait Toulouse et l'équipe de france
5.20 Good grief.
Did I not see a single All Blacks clip amongst this video??
2:50
Guys search Benji Marsh,Sonny Bill,Quade Cooper,Jonah Lomu, Ma,a Nonu, Dan Carter,Fourie Du Preez, Victor Matfield,Sam Whitelock, Ritchie Mcaw,
These players are some the Greatest ever to play the game
The Northern Hemisphere can stop over hyping this guy
Couldn't lead his team to a WC final so he ran to the 7s
He should come play All Blacks at Home and SA at Home then we talk
What a bizarre comment
Kolbe>
He is insane but he is no Jonny Wilkinson or Dan Carter
He is no indeed, his left leg is Wilko, his right leg is Carter 😂
Yes he is better than both of them (and I consider both Carter and Wilko as probably the two best 10 ever)
Better than both of them
He is better and more complete.
He definitely aint better than Cheslin Kolbe
Cheslin Kolbe is better
Le Garrec va le remplacer , il peut rester a 7 .
lol
jamais à mon avis
la seule chance pour le Garrec d'avoir une place de titu en 9 avant la retraite de Dupont serait que celui ci bascule en 10 en edf
His Highlights have to be the most boring overrated thing ever... He passes or he kick passes the ball Wow!! And it's mostly club rugby... 😂😂😂
You sound boring
lol bro, every team in the world dreams of having a player like him in their squad. you're just a hater