Match Report
The table gap was wide: 16 points between Rouen (7th, 49 pts) and Épinal (17th, 33 pts). Per game in the league, Rouen were scoring 1.21 and conceding 1.09, Épinal 1.15 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.27 goals per team per game.
Épinal entered with three losses in a row.
S. Chamel officiated: 49 games logged, averaging 2.3 yellow cards each. Stade Robert Diochon in Le Petit-Quevilly staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,018. On the scoreboard, Rouen led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.