Group B matches originally scheduled for this weekend, between Saint-Etienne - Metz ESAP and Aurillac-Arpajon - Nîmes, and postponed due to snowfall have been rescheduled to December 17 at 14:30.

Saint-Etienne will then try to pick up the top three, and could win if they win back to equal points of Nancy and Grenoble (2nd and 3rd in the provisional standings). As for Aurillac-Arpajon and Nîmes, it will be a duel of low ranking where the first will try to distance himself from the relegation zone while the second will try on his side to leave the last place and take the 10th place his opponent of the day.

The last two meetings of the eleventh day will mark the end of the first leg matches, before the resumption of the D2 championship mid-January 2018.

Morgane Huguen