SRFC penalised by its start to the match (4-0)

Reduced to ten men (6th) and then to nine five minutes later, Stade Rennais F.C. could have believed in a miracle, but as the minutes went by, the team finally gave in. Before conceding four goals after the break, with fatigue setting in and the spaces becoming increasingly larger, the Red and Blacks had nevertheless managed to give Lorient a hard time in the first half.