Top 14 drilldown: A hard fought season comes to the boil 

Every match of the final round - on Sunday, June 5 - matters.
Top 14 drilldown: A hard fought season comes to the boil 

La Rochelle's supporters already turning their attentions to a Champions Cup final during the weekend's Top 14 win over Stade Francais at the Marcel-Deflandre stadium.

Twenty-five weeks of the Top 14 season done. One to go. Three teams in the play-offs. Six hunting the three remaining open slots. Two still trying to avoid 13th place - with its promotion-relegation shootout against the losing ProD2 finalists.

Here are the results of the penultimate round of the campaign played in a sweltering early summer heatwave, where temperatures were uniformly well above 30C, even into the evening matches.

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