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Lyonnais · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 00:26 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - MD25 - Postponed game

BORDEAUX (1) - AUXERRE (6) 1-2
Tremoulinas 7'; Jelen 64' 83'

Bordeaux have been in trouble in the last few weeks and this difficult game vs. Auxerre confirmed the doubts some have about the Girondins.
However everything started well for Bordeaux who quickly scored a (lucky?) goal and then controlled the first half with a chance to score the second goal (on the bar). The second half however was totally dominated by Auxerre who had the best chances and thanks to the finishing skills of Jelen got a deserved and prestigious win.
Bordeaux stay on top but more worrying lost Planus on injury. Auxerre jump to the 3rd place!
With 6 teams in 4 points, the end of the season will be very exciting.

BORDEAUX: Tremoulinas - Chalme, Sane, Planus, Tremoulinas - Diarra - Sertic, Gourcuff, Jussie - Chamakh, Cavenaghi
coach: L. Blanc

AUXERRE: Sorin - Hengbart, Coulibaly, Mignot, Grichting - Oliech, Pedretti (c), Ndinga, Contout - Niculae, Jelen
coach: J. Fernandez

Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux - att: 20,868

Man of the match

Ireneusz JELEN
Forward, 28, Auxerre & Poland (24 caps)

Career: Cieszyn - Skoczow - Wisla Plock - Auxerre (2006)
Title: Winner of the Cup of Poland 2006 (Wisla Plock)

Jelen is the Mister Plus of the team. Very quick with good finishing skills, he's scoring quite a lot of goals (14 last season, 7 this season but he has often been injured). and gives some value to the long passes of his captain Pedretti and short passes of his teammate Niculae.

OMfan · Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 539 Location: Paris

What a very good mactch day for Marseille!!!
Mhsc 1 1 AJA
OL 1 1 St e
ASM 0 0 Bordeaux

There's a good opportunity for OM and Losc to reduce the gap with Bordeaux.
It's really important for OM to win in Toulouse cause next week, we play OL which is in a very good shape.
I guess OM will be tired after the game against Benfica next Wednesday that's why we have to win tonight.

Between 20th of januar and 21th of march(the game against OL) OM plays 16 games. That's huge.

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 16:11 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - MD28 - Match of the week

MONTPELLIER (2) - AUXERRE (3)
Costa 66'; Oliech 45'
Berthod (Auxerre) sent off 90'

Game between the 2 revelations of the season in France, and at the end a draw that will not satisfy anybody. Auxerre however can blame themselves for having missed so many great opportunities on counter-attacks.
Good game between Montpellier and Auxerre. As expected Montpellier had the territorial domination but Auxerre very well organized were waiting for this to launch quick counter-attacks. Jelen missed in the first half 2 head-to-head vs. an excellent Jourdren, but finally scored at the end of the first half thanks to Oliech (excellent pass from Niculae again). Montpellier equalized in the second half - shot from Costa with his right-foot (whereas he's left-footed) but Auxerre again had a couple of opportunities to win the game, among them an enormous chance in the dying minutes of the game missed again by Jelen, the hero of the game at Bordeaux.

MONTPELLIER: Jourdren - Yangambiwa, Spahic, El-Kaoutari, Jeunechamp - Marveaux, Pitau (c), Costa - Camara, Montano, Ait-Fana
coach: R. Girard

AUXERRE: Sorin - Hengbart, Coulibaly, Mignot, Berthod - Oliech, Pedretti (c), Ndinga, Birsa - Niculae, Jelen
coach: J. Fernandez

Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier - att: 19,320

Man of the match:

Geoffrey JOURDREN
Goal keeper, 24, Montpellier, France
Career: Montpellier (academy)

Geoffrey Jourdren is doing an excellent season in the goal of Montpellier. He was very unfortunate to have at the beginning of last season a bad and long injury what enabled Johann Carrasso (the brother of Cedric, the goal keeper of Bordeaux) to become a starter and do an excellent season as well. Carrasso unfortunately became injured at the beginning of this season and Jourdren took his place back. With these 2 excellent keepers (Jourdren was selected in all youth selections), Montpellier have some reserves!

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 16:18 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - MD29 - Other games

All the leaders made a draw on Saturday; with a rather mixed team, Bordeaux got a 0-0 at Monaco whereas Lyon lost 2 points at home in their derby vs. their neighbours St Etienne and Marseille left 2 points at Toulouse; Lille winner of Grenoble take the 4th place.

MONACO (7) - BORDEAUX (1) 0-0

LYON (4) - SAINT-ETIENNE (16) 1-1
Lisandro 79'; Riviere 39'

TOULOUSE (11) - MARSEILLE (5) 1-1
Machado 39'; Brandao 30'

LILLE (6) - GRENOBLE (20) 1-0
Cesar o.g. 46'

VALENCIENNES (8) - RENNES (10) 0-2
Marveaux 25' Gyan 39'

LORIENT (9) - LENS (15) 1-0
Marchal 78'

NANCY (12) - BOULOGNE (19) 1-3
Malonga 41'; Agouazi 33' Moussilou 71' Cuvillier 77'

PARIS SG (14) - SOCHAUX (13) 4-1
Hoarau 17' Erding 18' 35' 70'; Boudebouz pen. 64'

LE MANS (18) - NICE (17) 0-1
Remy 77'

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 23:30 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - Standings

Legionista · Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 367

Jelen scores again and Auxerre becomes the new leader of the League 1!(at least until Sunday matches). He missed 2 great chances against Montpellier one week ago but now He proved his good finishing once again. A few days ago I read an interview with Auxerre coach, He said that Jelen will probably leave the team after this season and join some stronger club because his skills let him to play in top European clubs. We will see what happen during summer transfer window.

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 22:08 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - MD29 - Match of the week

BORDEAUX (1) - LILLE (4) 3-1
Ciani 39' Jussie pen. 66' Gourcuff 75'; Hazard 24'
Ricardo Costa (Lille) sent off 65'

Very important win for Bordeaux who consolidate their leadership in the Ligue 1, push one of their most ambitious challengers Lille back to 5 points and found back a good quality of football. Bad week for Lille who lost at Liverpool on Thursday, then at Bordeaux today.
It's Lille however who had the better start, Hazard benefiting of a mistake of Ciani. This is the same Ciani who took care to equalize with a superb volley after on a set-piece. Lead by a good Gourcuff, Bordeaux dominated the second half and got a penalty for a foul of Ricardo Costa (sent-off) on Chamakh; Gourcuff added a nice 3rd goal at the end of the game.

BORDEAUX: Carrasso - Chalmé, Sané, Ciani, Tremoulinas - Fernando, Diarra (c) - Gouffran, Gourcuff, Jussiê - Chamakh
coach: L. Blanc

LILLE: Landreau - Béria, Rami, Chedjou, Ricardo Costa - Balmont, Cabaye, Dumont (c) - Obraniak, Touré, Hazard
coach: R. Garcia

Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Bordeaux - att: 32,552

Man of the match

Yoann GOURCUFF
Midfield,23, Bordeaux & France (17 caps)
Career: Rennes - Milan - Bordeaux (2008)
Titles:
- Winner of the Clubs WC 2007 (Milan)
- Winner of the Champions League 2007 (Milan)
- Champion of France 2009 (Bordeaux)
- Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 2009 (Bordeaux)

Gourcuff is coming back. After a rather difficult season - compared to what can be expected from this player -, Gourcuff is showing signs that he's going batter and better. Best man of the match vs. Olympiakos, then best man of the match vs. Lille, he is the main weapon of Bordeaux for the end of the season.

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:04 Post subject:

MD29 - Other games

Have Lille and Lyon lost the title this week-end? time will tell but they are both the big losers of the day. They lost to direct contenders (Bordeaux & Marseille) and lost 3 points to Montpellier & Auxerre and it will be difficult to come back

MONTPELLIER (2) - VALENCIENNES (10) 2-1
Montano 5' Marveaux 58'; Ben Khalfallah 74'

AUXERRE (3) - LE MANS (18) 2-1
Jelen 25' Pedretti 90+2'; Helstad 90+1'

MARSEILLE (6) - LYON (5) 2-1
Kaboré 67' Taiwo 81'; Gomis 80'

BOULOGNE (19) - LORIENT (7) 2-0
Marcq 13' Koscielny o.g. 52'

RENNES (8) - TOULOUSE (11) 4-1
Hansson 31' Gyan 35' 46' Kembo 90+1'; Braaten 51'

GRENOBLE (20) - MONACO (9) 0-0

NICE (16) - PARIS SG (12) 1-0
Remy 80'

SAINT-ETIENNE (17) - NANCY (13) 0-0

LENS (15) - SOCHAUX (14) 0-0

Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:14 Post subject:

Ligue 1 - Standings

apw · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:22 Post subject:

Can Auxerre win the league, i have always been fascinated by this club, mainly because of Guy Roux but also because of the fact that they have a 23000 capacity ground and a 45000 population.

I have often compared Auxerre to Burnley but in reality Burnley is almost twice the size.

Anyway what are their chances ? and also what about Montpelier ? are they genuine challangers too ?
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Lyonnais · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 23:48 Post subject:

Well, question of quality, nothing really to argue about a possible title for Auxerre or Montpellier, although in my opinion Montpellier is much more interesting than Auxerre. Auxerre is first of all a very organized team with a good defence, 2 passers with Pedretti and Niculae and a scorer Jelen. Montpellier is not as defensive and are more ambitious in their way of playing with their creative players (Costa, Ait-Fana).

Afterwards, it also (and mainly) depends on Bordeaux and Marseille. If Bordeaux and Marseille play as champions meaning don't waste points, I think that it will be difficult for Auxerre and Montpellier to challenge them, all the more than Bordeaux and Marseille both have 1 game in hand.
That said, Bordeaux are still in Europe and we know how the Champions League can cost points in domestic leagues but the elimination of Marseille this week in Europa League certainly is a bad news for Montpellier and Auxerre.

It will be difficult, but who knows?

seso · Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 970 Location: Athens, Greece

wrng info...

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Lyonnais · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 07:13 Post subject:

Coupe de France - Quarters

Quevilly, amateur club located in the suburbs of Rouen, currently playing in CFA (4th level), reach the semi-finals for the second time of their history! (first time was in 1968).
Auxerre eliminated vs. Paris SG on penalty shoot-out. The Cup could save a very dark season so far for the Parisians.
This also means that the 6th of the Ligue 1 will not be European next season.

AUXERRE - PARIS SG 0-0 (pen. 5-6)

MONACO - SOCHAUX 4-3 aet
Puygrenier 34' Haruna 38' Pino 90+4' Maazou 95'; Boudebouz 29' Dalmat 48' Brown 71'

LENS - SAINT-ETIENNE 3-1
Eduardo 36' Yahia 75' Roudet 89'; Mirallas 1'

QUEVILLY (4) - BOULOGNE 3-1
Coquio 11' Laup 28' Ouahbi 67'; Marcq 45'