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This Saturday, nine matches of the French "Ligue 1" championship 8th round were played. One match will be played today - at the "De la Beaujoire" stadium, and will meet and teams.
The central match of the round took place at Lyon's "Stade Gerland" stadium, where the two championship leaders - Lyon, currently in second place in the standings, and the championship leader Monaco met. The intense match ended in a goalless draw, with the referee showing a total of 6 cards - 5 yellow and 1 red.
After taking advantage of the leaders' draw, "Lille" climbed to second place in "Ligue 1" by crushing "Metz" 4-0. Now "Lille" and "Lyon" have 16 points each, but "Lille" is ahead due to a better goal difference. They are just 1 point behind the leaders, Monaco.
The capital's club, "P.S.G", secured their first victory in the championship by beating "Strasbourg" 1-0. The only goal of the match was scored by Pedro Pauleta of "P.S.G" in the 79th minute.
After three consecutive defeats, another pre-season favorite club, "Marseille", finally secured a victory by beating "Bastia" 1-0.
In the championship, "Nice" club with Edgaras Jankauskas also started to perform successfully. This time, Nice beat "Rennes" 2-0, with the Lithuanian earning a penalty in the 36th minute, which was successfully converted.
Table
All results of the 8th round:
0-0
62' Diego Perez (Monaco) sent off
2-1
5' (1-0) Mickael Isabey
32' (1-1) Frederic Piquionne
77' (2-1) Wilson Oruma
1-0
79' Pedro Pauleta
2-0
3' Sebastien Roudet
26' Marama Vahirua (pen.)
58' Cyril Jeunechamp (Rennes) sent off
1-0
78' Lauren Batlles
4-0
18' Milenko Acimovic (pen.)
51' Matt Moussilou
71' Matt Moussilou
80' Johan Audel
1-1
61' (1-0) Marouane Chamakh
88' (1-1) Daniel Moreira
0-0
88' Laurent Courtois (Istres) sent off
2-2
13' (1-0) Lucas Pereira
30' (1-1) Cyrille Watier
16' (2-1) Lucas Pereira
84' (2-2) Reynald Lemaitre
37' Salah Bakour (Caen) sent off
