Bordeaux 1-1 Grenoble
Valenciennes 1-1 Nantes
Caen 1-1 Lorient
Le Mans 1-2 Nice
Rennes 1-1 Nancy
Auxerre 2-0 Lille
PSG 2-1 St Etienne
Sochaux 1-2 Toulouse
Lyon 3-1 Le Havre
Monaco 0-1 Marseille
A Le Havre fan was arrested at the Stade Gerland for directing racist abuse to Lyon's Ghanaian defender John Mensah. Whatever was said obviously had an effect on Mensah as the big feller, upset and frustrated, managed to get himself booked twice and, consequentially, sent off. Two bad, clumsy fouls did for him and he looked like he was elsewhere. It all spoiled what should have been a good day for Lyon as they won at a canter. Ederson, Abdul Keita and Juninho got the goals for the champions with Loic Nestor getting one back late on for the north coast side. They remain four clear, but now it's PSG who move into second place following their win over St Etienne. All three goals came in the space of ten first half minutes. Mamadou Sakho put the Parisians in front before Dimitri Payet equalised. Jeremy Clément put PSG back in front as Ludo Giuly impressing in the build up.
Bordeaux lost ground in a disappointing draw with Grenoble and slip to fifth as a result. Grenoble were happy to soak up the pressure and try to hit on the counter, though they're just not good enough to make it work effectively. Marouane Chamakh scored at the right end this week in putting Bordeaux ahead, but Ulrich Ramé's mistake let Grenoble in. A poor clearance fell to Laurent Courtois whose shot hit the post, fell to Bostjan César and he stuck it home. It could have got worse for Bordeaux late on when Sofiane Feghouli's shot came back off the bar. Marseille were rather let off by Monaco as the home side wasted a host of chances and failed to turn their early dominance into goals. And as so often happens, back came Marseille to win it with Bakari Koné's goal. Marseille finished the stronger and should have added more goals with Brandao and Mathieu Valbuena wasting good chances late on. Toulouse continue to keep the pressure on with another win, 2-1 away at Sochaux. They came from a goal down after Rabiu Afolabi opened the scoring in the 12th minute, but were back on terms when Jacques Faty put through his own net just before the break. Inevitably, it was André-Pierre Gignac who won it with his 15th of the season, beating Faty en route to goal, rounding off a miserable afternoon for the Sochaux defender.
Auxerre were the big winners down at the bottom with a win over form side Lille, despite Thomas Kahlenberg's dismissal. Two goals around the half hour mark from Ireneusz Jelen and Kamel Chafni did the damage and Jelen's return to the side really has helped their attempts to get out of bother. Kahlenberg got a straight red for an ugly challenge on Mathieu Debuchy and coach Jean Fernandez was also ordered from the sidelines for protesting. And yet Auxerre still looked more likely to go on and get more with Jelen forcing a fine save late on from Gregory Malicki. Valenciennes picked up another point as they continued their unbeaten run. Rafael Schmitz put them ahead against Nantes volleyed in on 14 minutes, but Ivan Klasnic equalised on the hour mark, beating two men on a mazy run to the goal before smashing it home.
Caen also picked up a point, mildly averting their slide, as they drew at home to Lorient. Steve Savidan got their goal and he'll have to do more of that if Caen are to avoid trouble. Rafik Saïfi equalised before Lorient were reduced to ten with Benjamin Genton's second yellow in stoppage time. Rennes aren't going so well any more and again drew, Jimmy Briand rescuing a point two minutes from time after Youssouf Hadji had put Nancy ahead ten minutes into the second time and Nice got back on track in beating Le Mans. They came from behind with Mahamane Traore snatching the winner in stoppage time after Emerse Fae had equalised Thorstein Helstad's opener.
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