Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Aviron Bayonnais 1st with 57 points, Pau II 5th with 36, 21 apart. Aviron Bayonnais ranked just 9th in the league on five-round form despite their 1st table position. Per game in the league, Aviron Bayonnais were scoring 1.92 and conceding 0.69, Pau II 1.31 and 1.27, against a competition average of 1.31 goals per team per game.
Aviron Bayonnais entered with seven wins in a row, having scored in 7 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Aviron Bayonnais 15/15, Pau II 8/15.
The match was played at Stade Didier Deschamps (capacity 3,500).
Goal scorers
Aviron Bayonnais: Laïd Boukhari (45'), Quentin Hitte (41')