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The matches of the 15th round were played over the weekend in the French "Ligue 1" championship. The leader "Lyon" increased their advantage against the pursuers even more, as their lead grew to 15 points after a victory against "Auxerre", meanwhile "Lille", "Lens" and "Nancy" dropped points and entered a fierce fight for the second place with the victorious "Sochaux" and "Bordeaux" clubs, "Toulouse" also approached the competing teams, while "Auxerre", "P.S.G" and "Monaco" continue to struggle at the bottom of the tournament table.
15th round statistics:
"Troyes" 1 - 1 "Marseille" 18' [1 - 0] Yann Lachuer 61' [1 - 1] Mamadou Niang
* 70' Mickael Pagis ("Marseille") sent off
"Toulouse" 1 - 0 "Rennes" 66' [1 - 0] Bryan Bergougnoux (11m.)
"Nice" 2 - 2 "Sedan" 16' [0 - 1] Joseph-Desire Job 54' [1 - 1] Bakary Kone 75' [2 - 1] Cedric Kante 87' [2 - 2] Gregory Pujol
"Lorient" 1 - 3 "Sochaux" 2' [1 - 0] Sylvain Marchal 22' [1 - 1] Anthony Le Tallec 25' [1 - 2] Anthony Le Tallec 45' [1 - 3] Karim Ziani (11m.)
"Lille" 1 - 1 "Monaco" 37' [0 - 1] Serge Gakpe 76' [1 - 1] Mathieu Bodmer
"Bordeaux" 1 - 0 "Saint-Etienne" 70' [1 - 0] Alejandro Cesar Alonso
"Le Mans" 1 - 1 "Lens" 22' [1 - 0] Ibrahima Bangoura 43' [1 - 1] Olivier Thomert
"Nantes" 1 - 1 "P.S.G" 2' [0 - 1] Bonaventure Kalou 75' [1 - 1] Frederic Da Rocha
"Valenciennes" 1 - 0 "Nancy" 2' [1 - 0] Steve Savidan
"Lyon" 1 - 0 "Auxerre" 25' [1 - 0] Florent Malouda
League table:
