No rest for La Rochelle as focus turns towards another title race  

Ronan O’Gara’s Champions Cup winners face a play-off deciding trip to Challenge Cup winners Lyon on Sunday, four places and four points below them

Stade Rochelais' Gregory Alldritt lifts the trophy with team-mates after the Heineken Champions Cup final at the Stade Velodrome, Marseille. Picture: David Davies/PA Wire.

New European champions La Rochelle returned to work four days after their Marseille heroics, for the final weekend of the tightest Top 14 campaign for years.

Ronan O’Gara’s Champions Cup winners, fourth in the Top 14 heading into the final round, put the celebrations on ice for a fitness session on Wednesday ahead of Sunday’s play-off deciding trip to Challenge Cup winners Lyon, four places and four points below them.