"Lyon" has returned to the top of the French league © EuroFootball.com

Five matches were played on Saturday in the French leagues. At least temporarily, the sole leader of the championship until Sunday became "Lyon", the title defender who easily won away, "Le Mans" and "Toulouse" also share 5-6 positions having won away, "Troyes" achieved their first victory by defeating the outsider "Nice", and "Valenciennes" forced the currently struggling "Nantes" to surrender at the bottom of the tournament table.

Results of the 6th round of "Ligue 1" on Saturday:

"Sedan" 1 - 2 "Le Mans" 4' [0 - 1] Ismael Bangoura 26' [0 - 2] Paulo Andre 79' [1 - 2] Nadir Belhadj 90' Stephane Sessegnon (Le Mans) was sent off the field

"Valenciennes" 1 - 0 "Nantes" 38' [1 - 0] Steve Savidan

"Lorient" 1 - 3 "Lyon" 6' [0 - 1] Tiago 62' [0 - 2] Fred 62' [0 - 3] Florent Malouda 70' [1 - 3] Michael Ciani

"Lille" 1 - 3 "Toulouse" 16' [0 - 1] Fabinho 26' [0 - 2] Achille Emana 34' [1 - 2] Efstathios Tavlaridis 39' [1 - 3] Fabinho

"Troyes" 2 - 0 "Nice" 52' [1 - 0] David Gigliotti 75' [2 - 0] Benjamin Nivet (11m.) 21' Rod Fanni (Nice) was sent off the field