Stade Rennais suffered a devastating loss on the 31st day of Ligue 1 against Olympique Lyonnais on the score of 4-1. The Rennes players were completely overwhelmed during the first period and confirmed their gap with the teams playing for Europe. OL scored by Fofana (8th), Tolisso (25th), Lacazette (39th) and Mikautadze (77th), while Meïté narrowed the gap for the SRFC to the 50th minute. The Lyons aligned a team with Perri in the goals, a defence composed of Maitland-Niles, Mata, Niakhaté and Tagliafico, a middle with Tolisso, Matic (replaced by Veretout) and Cherki (replaced by Kumbedi), and an attack with Almada, Fofana (replaced by Abner Vinicius) and Lacazette (replaced by Mikautadze). For its part, the SRFC aligned Samba in the goals, a defence composed of Jacquet, Rouault, Brassier, Assignon (replaced by Gomez), Cissé (replaced by Koné), Fofana (replaced by Olaigbe) and Matusiwa, a middle with Truffert, Al-Tamari (replaced by Blas) and Meïté. Both coaches were Paulo Fonseca for OL and Habib Beye for SRFC.