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In the French championship over the weekend, the 36th round of matches took place, and with the league champions already established earlier, the main battle now is for places in European cup tournaments and survival in the priority matches. The gold medal winners "Lyon" enjoyed their victory at home by thrashing "Bordeaux" 5-1. Securing victories to secure a place in next season's Champions League were the clubs "Lille" and "Monaco": "Lille" won 3-1 away against "Nantes", while "Monaco" defeated "Bastia" 5-2 at their home ground. Meanwhile, in the fight for a place in the UEFA Cup tournament, not much has changed, as "Marseille" played a goalless draw with their main rival "Auxerre" and remain in fourth place. "Rennes" in sixth position was defeated by "Lens", which now ties in points with "St. Etienne", unexpectedly losing to the revived "Caen". "P.S.G" have little chance of qualifying for a European tournament after a dramatic draw against "Sochaux", which was not beneficial to either team. "Strasbourg" practically secured a place in the league next season by defeating "Metz" at home, while "Nice", without E. Jankauskas, won away against "Ajaccio" and moved slightly away from the bottom of the table. 36th round statistics: 5 - 1 10' [0 - 1] Albert Riera 25' [1 - 1] Florent Malouda 34' [2 - 1] Cristiano Cris 45' [3 - 1] Cristiano Cris 66' [4 - 1] Sidney Govou 84' [5 - 1] Sidney Govou 30' Cyril Rool ("Bordeaux") sent off 1 - 3 9' [0 - 1] Stephane Dumont 19' [1 - 1] Nicolas Savinaud 51' [1 - 2] Rafael Schmitz 73' [1 - 3] Mathieu Debuchy 0 - 1 52' [0 - 1] Kamel Larbi 0 - 0 83' Benoit Pedretti ("Marseille") sent off 2 - 0 44' [1 - 0] Cyrille Watier 90' [2 - 0] Ronald Zubar 1 - 0 81' [1 - 0] Azzedine Ourahou 65' Pantxi Sirieix ("Toulouse") sent off 5 - 2 16' [0 - 1] Alexander Frei 28' [1 - 1] John Utaka 42' [2 - 1] John Utaka 57' [3 - 1] Eric Carriere 59' [4 - 1] John Utaka 62' [4 - 2] Alexander Frei 83' [5 - 2] Abdeslam Ouaddou (own goal) 5 - 2 2' [0 - 1] Youssouf Hadji 9' [1 - 1] Ernesto Javier Chevanton 36' [2 - 1] Ernesto Javier Chevanton 45' [3 - 1] Ernesto Javier Chevanton 47' [4 - 1] Javier Saviola 57' [4 - 2] Pascal Chimbonda 86' [5 - 2] Emmanuel Adebayor 89' Nicolas Penneteau ("Bastia") sent off 2 - 2 49' [0 - 1] Francileudo Santos 58' [0 - 2] Francileudo Santos 90' [1 - 2] Mario Yepes 90' [2 - 2] Sylvain Armand
