The Springboks will make a fatal mistake if they focus all their energy on neutralising superstar French scrumhalf Antoine Dupont in Saturday’s Test showdown in Marseille, scrumhalf Faf de Klerk says.
Back in the starting line-up, De Klerk is looking forward to his duel with World Player of the Year Dupont in front of 67,000 fans at Marseille’s Stade Vélodrome .
“Hopefully if we do that the rest will take care of itself. If you look at the way France play, they want to keep their big forwards close to him [Dupont] and they don’t play a lot off their flyhalf. “He is extremely quick and strong too and we will need to be on top of our game around that. But we have some clever forwards around the rucks who can hopefully sort that out.
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