The third place team hosts the fourth place team. This alone summarizes the stakes of this top-of-the-table clash, even though the point gap between the two teams is five points.
Both teams prepared for the showdown with two victories. Nice faced Bédarrides, while Hyères-Carqueiranne defeated the previously unbeaten Dijon leader.
The team from the Côte d’Azur, unbeaten on their home ground, will attempt to capitalize before a perilous trip to Bourgoin, which this Sunday will face Dijon in a top-of-the-table match.
