Marseille 1-1 Toulouse
Boulogne 1-2 Nancy
Bordeaux 1-0 Monaco
Auxerre 2-1 Montpellier
Lens 1-1 Lorient
Grenoble 0-2 Lille
St Etienne 0-1 Lyon
Nice 1-0 Le Mans
Rennes 0-3 Valenciennes
Sochaux 1-4 PSG
It was written in the stars really. Bafetimbi Gomis got the rounds of the kitchen from the Goeffroy-Guichard crowd when he came off the bench in the second half, but he was on the spot when Jeremie Janot spilled a corner at his feet ten minutes from time. Did Gomis have the humanity not to celebrate? Of course not. That lifts OL back to second, but Bordeaux continue to lead after a 1-0 win of their own, over fellow challengers Monaco. Marc Planus gave Girondins the win, stabbing in from all of a foot out. Montpellier and Auxerre come next, the two sides moving in opposite directions and no prizes for guessing who the man was in the game between the two sides on Saturday. You can't leave a man like Ireneusz Jelen unmarked six yards out, but the Montpellier defence did and paid the price on the quarter hour and they repeated the trick fifteen minutes later. MHSC did have chances, but found goalkeeper and woodwork equally immovable and their last real chance went when Alberto Costa picked up his second yellow quarter of an hour from time even though they did get one back three minutes into stoppage time off the head of Nenad Dzodic.
I'm sure the town of Grenoble has plenty going for it, the skiing for one. The football team however... They lost again this week, beaten in equal measure by Lille and themselves. Yohan Cabaye put Lille in front with a well-crafted goal before Grenoble self-destructed on the stroke of half-time, David Jemmali coming up with a potential ankle-breaker on Pierre-Alain Frau. The only surprise then was that it took until the last minute for Lille to put the game to bed, Gervinho waltzing through the defence and finishing in style. Grenoble are on the brink of being record-breakingly bad and it'd now feel something like a shame if they don't become so.
Lens picked up a valuable point as they look to halt their slide. Eduardo dos Santos equalised after Franco Sosa had put Lorient in front just before the break. Boulogne lost to ten-man Nancy. Jordan Loties was dismissed with the scores at 1-1, Issiar Dia having put Nancy in front and Alexandre Cuvillier equalising. Youssouf Hadji, as so often, came up with a winner for Les Chardons. Nice picked up a rare win over ten-man Le Mans. Antonio Géder was sent off after fifteen minutes and Ismael Gace got the goal that won the match five minutes from the break. Rennes were put to the sword by Valenciennes for whom Bobo Balde opened the scoring early in the second half. Fahid Ben Khalfallah and Gregory Pujol wrapped it up. PSG recovered from their swine flu setback with a big win over Sochaux. Jeremy Clément pounced on the rebound from Mevlut Erding's saved penalty for the first, Clément Chantome added the second before Erding finally got on the scoresheet. Stephane Dalmat pulled one back late on, but there was still time for Pegguy Luyindula to make it four for the fit-again Parisians. Marseille could only draw on their return to action against a Toulouse side that played 82 minutes a man short after Yoann Pelé was sent off just eight minutes into the game. And yet Les Violets were ahead twenty minutes later through Moussa Sissoko. They couldn't hold out though and Brandao eventually broke the resistance quarter of an hour from time.
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