Olympique Lyonnais were on Thursday (28th April) preparing for Saturday's (30th April) Ligue 1 encounter with relegation-threatened Gazelec Ajaccio

SOUNDBITE: (French) Bruno Genesio, Olympique Lyonnais coach:

(Q: Will relegation-threatened Ajaccio prove to be easy opponents?)

"If we think like that it's the best way to have a big disappointment. Because Ajaccio are playing for their future, struggling hard, and they beat us in the reverse fixture (in December). They won 2-1 but they could have won 3-1 or 4-1... If we forget that we need to do our best to win this game we could be very surprised. But I don't feel the group is in that state of mind."

SOUNDBITE: (French) Corentin Tolisso, Olympique Lyonnais midfielder:

(Q: Is it important to beat Ajaccio on Saturday to stay in front of Monaco before Monaco come to your stadium next week?)

"Yes of course. This is obvious, if we want to finish second we need to win on Saturday. We will play Monaco next week and to stay in front of them in rankings it will be very important psychologically."

SOUNDBITE: (French) Bruno Genesio, Olympique Lyonnais coach:

"We do know that if we get seven points in our last three games we will finish second unless Nice win every game 4-0 to the end. But there is a 90 per cent chance that with seven points we will finish second. But now, we take each game one by one as we said before, we're still in this game with Ajaccio on Saturday. We need the three points to continue our run. We will have time then to think about Monaco next week."