{"id":177372,"date":"2025-09-29T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:08:09","slug":"antoine-dupont-outlines-return-date-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177372\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Dupont outlines return date from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

France<\/a> and Toulouse<\/a> superstar Antoine Dupont<\/a> has revealed he is expecting to return to action from his ACL injury at the end of November or the beginning of December.<\/p>\n

The scrum-half has been out of action since early March when he ruptured his ACL against Ireland<\/a> in round four of the Guinness Six Nations<\/a> in Dublin.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old was in attendance for Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s 2-0 victory over Auxerre at the Parc de Prince in Ligue 1 on Saturday, where he was pitchside alongside France\u2019s recent Ballon d\u2019Or winner Ousmane Dembele.<\/p>\n

Speaking to PSG TV<\/a>, Dupont gave an outline as to when rugby fans can expect to see him back on the field again.<\/p>\n

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France <\/p>\n

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South Africa <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s going well, but it\u2019s still a long time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s my second time with the cruciate ligaments. So I want to be patient and do things right to come back in the best possible condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnd of November or beginning of December, it won\u2019t be before then.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one harboured any hope that the Frenchman would be available for Les Bleus\u2019 Autumn Nations Series campaign in November, where they will face South Africa, Fiji<\/a> and Australia, but this confirms his absence.<\/p>\n

Toulouse get their Investec Champions Cup<\/a> campaign underway against the Sharks<\/a> at home on December 7, followed by a trip to Glasgow<\/a> Warriors the following week. This prognosis suggests the French maestro could be available in some capacity for Toulouse\u2019s European campaign.<\/p>\n

An injury-hit Toulouse crashed out of the Champions Cup to eventual winners Bordeaux-Begles in fairly limp fashion in the semi-final stage last season, but were able to exact revenge on the same opposition weeks later in the Top 14<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, France head coach Fabien Galthie<\/a> will be keeping a keen eye on France\u2019s scrum-halves over the next month ahead of November, with Dupont\u2019s deputy in blue, Bordeaux\u2019s Maxime Lucu<\/a>, still out of action with a thumb injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France and Toulouse superstar Antoine Dupont has revealed he is expecting to return to action from his ACL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-177372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}