The Lyonnais have 48 points and remain third, behind Bordeaux and Montpellier.

For its part, despite an excellent start to the match, Stade Français failed to achieve a second success on the road, and remained in tenth place.

Worse, the Parisians also lost their opener and striker, Joris Segonds, who was injured in the 58th minute.

Long behind in the score, the Lyonnais went back in front on the scoreboard ten minutes from the end (23-22), on the fourth penalty from their opener, Léo Berdeu, who entered at the start of the second period.

Previously, they dragged their bad start to the match for a long time (0-12. 24th). They managed to stay in contact with the score thanks to a personal achievement by the Fijian winger, Josh Tuisova, author of his second try of the season (8-12. 28th). The Lyonnais could have taken back the score earlier but the success was not there, like this penalty on the post of the New Zealand opener, Lima Sopoaga (34th) and these two missed chances by the Fijian second line, Temo Mayanavanua (16th), and the New Zealand third line, Jordan Taufua (58th), entered the in-goal without flattening.

The Stade Français let go after the hour mark, marked by the successive outings, on injuries, of its two openers, Joris Segonds (58th), and his replacement, Léo Barré (63rd) and the yellow card inflicted on the Tongan rear, Telusa Veainu, author of a voluntary forward (70th).

Despite this, he had a match point.

Two minutes from the end, the replacement scrum half, Arthur Coville missed the winning penalty, thirty meters in the corner.

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