When Romain Ntamack wrongly believes he gave victory to his people

The qualification in his pocket, he can laugh about it today. Romain Ntamack thought he would offer Stade Toulousain victory after a crazy match this Saturday in the Champions Cup quarter-finals. But he was wrong…

The two teams, tied (24-24) at the end of regulation time and extra time, had to decide in a penalty shootout, an exercise extremely rare in rugby. Unsurprisingly, the Toulouse opener was one of the three shooters chosen by his coach, Ugo Mola.

“I saw that no one was moving”

When he succeeded in his shot from 22 meters, to the left of the posts, Romain Ntamack therefore believed that the session was over and that he had just qualified his team for the semi-finals. He threw up his arms a little too quickly. “I thought it was the first three kicks and depending on that we could then go 40 yards. But apparently not since when I raised my arms, I saw that no one was moving, ”he confessed to The Dispatch after the victory.

The suspense indeed lasted a few more minutes with the shots from 40 meters. And it was finally Antoine Dupont who definitively gave the victory to his team. Romain Ntamack this time was able to savor and repair his mistake. “I was a little uncomfortable with Munster because I thought it was over,” he told the regional daily. I apologized to the players at the end. »