Ligue 1 round 27

Auxerre v Valenciennes
Nice v Nancy
Boulogne v Lyon
Sochaux v Toulouse
Rennes v Monaco
Lens v PSG
St Etienne v Lille
Marseille v Lorient
Grenoble v Le Mans
Bordeaux v Montpellier

Massive clash at the Chaban-Delmas this week where Montpellier are looking for the win that will take them top. Bordeaux have missed the last two weeks due to postponements as storms lashed the Atlantic coast. That can go both ways. Either Les Girondins will turn up refreshed and ready to go or they may have gone stale. It'll be fascinating to find out which. Lose it and it won't be over by any stretch of the imagination, but win it, and Bordeaux can start thinking about another championship.

The headlines this week have been dominated by PSG. You may recall that trouble flared in Marseille when PSG's trip there was called off due to an outbreak of swine flu. Marseille went up to Paris without any fans last week, so what did the PSG fans do? That's right: fight among themselves. Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to rid the game of these "thugs", though he stopped short of calling them "scum" like he did when interior minister describing rioting youths in les banlieus. Goalkeeper Grégory Coupet went so far as to suggest the team are in some way responsible for the trouble, frustration at the ineptitude of the side boiling over in spectacular fashion. He is maybe half right. There's now a ban in place on travelling fans whenever PSG are in action away from home imposed by the club, possibly as a pre-emptive action against sanctions from the league. PSG go to Lens this week, normally a game where tempers fray anyway. Nobody will miss the PSG fans at this one.

Down at the bottom, Grenoble take on Le Mans. While GF38 have only won three all season, two of those have come in the last four games. Le Mans come off the back of win number five, mind that came against Boulogne, a truly awful side who are on for a hiding at home to Lyon. Nice and St Etienne, both above the drop zone, are both at home, Nice against Nancy while Les Verts take on Lille who are looking to get back to winning ways after coming unstuck against Auxerre last week. AJA themselves aren't completely out of the title equation and take on fading Valenciennes. Marseille still have a game in hand on everyone at the top end bar Bordeaux and are still very much a threat and they welcome Lorient to the Vélodrome this week. Elsewhere, it's mid-table honours up for grabs as Toulouse go to Sochaux and Monaco go north to Rennes.