French champion regained a two-point lead over Brest and can already look forward with greater serenity to the future. After the victory (0-2) in Nantes on the evening of the 22nd day, Paris certainly had an additional unit of margin since it left Brest thirteen lengths behind.

Despite the quarter-hour wind gap, again, which allowed Montpellier to find the fault, twice, and to regain hope before the break, Paris showed an increasingly impressive collective power. “We are on the same momentum as we have been for a month” says Vitinha.