DUBLIN — France has cited Eire’s Tadhg Beirne and Andrew Porter for his or her alleged roles within the serious-looking knee harm to Antoine Dupont of their crunch Six Nations match on Saturday.
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Dupont was compelled off within the twenty ninth minute when his proper knee buckled inward as Eire cleared out a ruck.
Dupont limped off with medical personnel on both shoulder, however even with out its talismanic captain and scrumhalf France gained the match 42-27.
“We suspect it’s a fairly serious knee injury,” France coach Fabien Galthie mentioned.
“I will not go into particulars due to medical confidentiality, and we’ve to attend for extra in-depth exams. Antoine is struggling and we’re struggling with him.
“We have cited the players summoned to appear before the disciplinary committee: Beirne and Porter on Antoine’s injury, Nash on the contact that caused Pierre-Louis Barassi to go off did not respond to the concussion protocol. Their players returned. On our side, the players did not return. We are angry.”
Barassi failed a head verify after a head-on-head sort out by Nash, who was yellow-carded after the second half incident.
“We want to protect our players,” Galthie mentioned. “There are rules, we need to understand.”
Eire interim coach Simon Easterby put down Dupont’s harm “as just a rugby incident.”
“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.”
Moments earlier, Dupont assisted within the first-half attempt to wing Louis Bielle-Biarrey. France led 5-0 when Dupont left. His alternative, Maxime Lucu, crammed in beautifully.
“Max Lucu is a very good player and we didn’t worry ,” Bielle-Biarrey mentioned.
The harm put unsure whether or not the three-time participant of the match will likely be match to guide title-chasing France in opposition to Scotland subsequent Saturday in Paris within the closing spherical.
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