During the week, at a press conference, the Pau third row Sacha Zegueur did not help to lighten the air by talking about “last chance match”even “of death”. Penultimate, the Section received the last one, Vannes, and it smelled like fire under the winter sun of the Hamlet. The first quarter of an hour for the Béarnais, more than difficult, confirmed all this. Two direct hits, fouls when defending the first Breton carried balls, a first sanctioned scrum and a try from the former member of the house Thibault Debaes, following a clever reversal near the line (0-7, 8th minute).