Cup dream over for Bordeaux and OM
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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FC Girondins de Bordeaux and Olympique de Marseille are the Coupe de France's latest high-profile casualties after a night that featured the rarest of Djimi Traoré goals and a Stade Brestois 29 shock.
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The top five in Ligue 1 are all out of the Coupe de France after FC Girondins de Bordeaux and Olympique de Marseille became the latest high-profile casualties.
The portents looked ominous for Bordeaux from the moment Djimi Traoré put visitors AS Monaco FC ahead on 27 minutes; the defender's first club goal since scoring in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool FC in November 2003. Moussa Maazou doubled the advantage at the start of the second half, sending Monaco through to the quarter-finals alongside AJ Auxerre and AS Saint-Etienne, both comfortable winners elsewhere on Wednesday.
As, surprisingly, were RC Lens, after two efforts from Issam Jemâa set them on course for a 3-1 victory over Marseille in a rescheduled last-32 encounter. Lens will now take on Stade Brestois 29 for a place in the final eight as the high-flying Ligue 2 outfit beat a weakened Toulouse FC side 2-0 earlier in the evening, both goals coming in the last 17 minutes.
US Boulogne, FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, Paris Saint-Germain FC and fourth-tier US Quevilly all progressed to the quarter-finals on Tuesday.
