Ligue 1: Evian 2 Nantes 0

Second-half goals from Cedric Barbosa and Daniel Wass lifted Evian five points clear of 18th-placed Valenciennes, who play on Saturday.

It was the hosts who did the early pressing, with Tulio de Melo heading wide of the right-hand post from a Barbosa cross in the opening stages.

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