Lille move level with Lyon
Saturday, October 16, 2004
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LOSC Lille Métropole are level on points with Olympique Lyonnais thanks to a 2-1 victory against SC Bastia.
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By Chris Burke
LOSC Lille Métropole answered Olympique Lyonnais's Ligue 1 win last night with a late 2-1 victory against SC Bastia that takes them level with the French champions on 22 points, while AS Monaco FC had to make do with a 1-1 draw at FC Metz.
Dernis winner
Lille got off to a flying start when Mathieu Bodmer put them in front on just four minutes, but after Bastia's Chouki Ben Saada scored the first goal conceded by Tony Silva in six games, his side's fantastic run looked to be over. It took a freakish cross-shot from Geoffrey Dernis eight minutes from time to secure Lille's sixth consecutive win and they now trail Lyon on goal difference alone after the title holders defeated SM Caen 4-0 on Friday night.
Monaco held
For much of the evening, Monaco had been poised to jump ahead of Lille into second place, but instead are in fourth after Dino Djiba's late strike for Metz cancelled out Emmanuel Adebayor's opener. The team above Monaco in third are AJ Auxerre, as unanswered goals from Stéphane Grichting, Benjamin Mwaruwari and Philippe Violeau took Guy Roux's team within three points of the pace-setters with a 3-0 win at home to RC Lens.
Brazilian hotshots
Two goals from Waldir Lucas Pereira took the Brazilian striker clear at the top of the scoring charts but, more importantly, earned AC Ajaccio a 2-2 draw with bottom-club RC Strasbourg that lifts the Corsicans out of the danger zone. And it was a happy day for Pereirra's compatriot Araujo Ilan, who claimed a hat-trick in FC Sochaux-Montbéliard's 3-0 victory against Stade Rennais FC.
PSG defeated
Paris Saint-Germain FC remain in sigh of the bottom three after ahead Nicolas Savinaud's stoppage-time penalty gave seventh-placed FC Nantes Atlantique a slender 1-0 win. FC Istres led twice only to draw 2-2 away to FC Girondins de Bordeaux and remain without a victory while Florian Jarjat scored the only goal as OGC Nice saw off Toulouse FC. Tomorrow, Olympique de Marseille can go level with Auxerre when they welcome AS Saint-Etienne.
