The second victory of "Metz" and "Monaco" in France © EuroFootball.com

Today, eight second-round matches took place in the French "Ligue-1" championship. The league leaders "Metz" and "Monaco" both secured victories and became the league leaders, winning by the same score of 2-1.

The biggest defeat was suffered by the team "Nice," who lost 1-5 to "Bordeaux" away. The champion "Lyon" failed to beat "Sochaux" at home, and "Auxerre" bounced back from a poor first round and defeated "Rennes" eleven.

As we have already announced, in the previous day's match ended in a draw with , while in the remaining round matches tomorrow will face .

Table of the tournament

Results:

Metz 1 - 2 Monaco 6' Herve Tum [0 - 1] 51' Babacar Gueye [0 - 2] 61' Cyril Chapuis [1 - 2]

Lyon 3 - 1 Sochaux 50', 52' Rene Bolf [1 - 0, 2 - 0] 69' Bonaventure Kalou [3 - 0] 84' Alexander Frei [3 - 1]

90' Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbe ("Rennes") sent off the field

Bordeaux 5 - 1 Nice 14' Damien Gregorini (own goal) [1 - 0] 23', 55', 72' Marouane Chamakh [2 - 0, 3 - 0, 4 - 1] 64' Florian Jarjat [3 - 1] 88' Lilian Laslandes [5 - 1]

Lille 3 - 0 Nantes 26', 39' Seydou Keita 72' Daniel Cousin (penalty)

St Etienne 1 - 1 Lyon 39' Lionel Potillon [0 - 1] 71' Juninho Pernambucano (penalty) [1 - 1]

Metz 2 - 1 Monaco 6' Mohammed Kallon [1 - 0] 29' Douglas Maicon [2 - 0] 82' Victor Montano [2 - 1]

Lyon 1 - 1 Sochaux 49' Hassan Ahamada [1 - 0] 74' Pierre-Yves Andre [1 - 1]

Bordeaux 1 - 4 Nice 5' Stephane Dalmat [0 - 1] 8' David Suarez [0 - 2] 26' Jeremy Moreau [0 - 3] 77' David Suarez [0 - 4] 90' Mickael Pagis [1 - 4]

16' Abdelilah Fahmi ("Strasbourg") and 85' Lucien Aubey ("Toulouse") sent off the field