Ligue 1 round-up

Bordeaux beat Toulouse 2-1 and increased its lead to nine points halfway through the French league on Wednesday.

"We can be satisfied of what we have achieved but let's not relax," Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc told Canal Plus television, "because in football everything can go quickly."

Through 19 matches, defending champion Bordeaux tops the standings with 43 points. Lille, which routed Nancy 4-0 to earn its sixth straight league win, climbed to second place with 34 points.

"Those stretches are unexplainable," Lille midfielder Ludovic Obraniak told Canal Plus. "Everything we try works. It's too bad there's the winter break because we were riding the momentum."

Elsewhere, it was: Marseille 0, Auxerre 2; Lyon 1, Montpellier 2; Sochaux 2, Rennes 0; Lorient 3, Valenciennes 2; Paris Saint-Germain 4, Grenoble 0; Le Mans 1, Monaco 1; and Nice 2, Boulogne 2.

Lens edged Saint-Etienne 1-0 on Tuesday.

Montpellier rose to third with 33 points, Marseille slipped to fourth with 32, level on points with Auxerre in fifth, while Lyon fell to sixth with 30.

Paulo Machado opened the scoring for Toulouse from the edge of the box after four minutes against Bordeaux.

Marouane Chamakh headed inside the near post a cross from Benoit Tremoulinas to equalize four minutes later.

The turning point in the match occurred when Cheikh M'Bengue was sent off in the 73rd for picking up a second yellow card. The Toulouse defender fouled Chamakh, who was bearing down on goal.

Geraldo Wendel hit the winning goal from the ensuing free kick that deflected off Toulouse defender Mohamed Fofana.

In Nancy, Eden Hazard took a low cross from Gervinho and spun to score in the 42nd.

Gervinho converted a rebound to make it 2-0 in the 51st.

Nancy was reduced to 10 men in the 60th after Joel Sami fouled Gervinho. Pierre-Alain Frau converted the penalty kick to notch his ninth goal this season.

Gervinho then outpaced the Nancy defense to slip the ball past goalkeeper Gennaro Bracigliano in the 73rd, to become the league-leading scorer with 11.

In Marseille, Daniel Niculae fed forward Dennis Oliech, who beat goalkeeper Steve Mandanda in the 41st.

Oliech then collected a throughball from Roy Contout to double the lead in the 79th.

"We wanted to attack but unfortunately we got hit twice on the fast break," Marseille centerback Souleymane Diawara told Foot Plus television. "Auxerre defended well, too. We didn't manage to score. We feel sad tonight."

Injuries forced Marseille to replace defender Laurent Bonnart and midfielder Lucho Gonzalez in the first half-hour.

In Lyon, Victor Hugo Montano curled a shot into the top corner to put Montpellier ahead in the 53rd.

Lyon equalized in the 83rd with a header from Bafetimbi Gomis.

But two minutes later, Lyon left Joris Marveaux unmarked on a free kick and the Montpellier midfielder beat goalkeeper Hugo Lloris from close range for the victory.

"We must come back in the (title) race and show our real level again," Lyon manager Claude Puel told Europe 1 radio. "We'll have to show a different face. We were competitive in the first three months. Then we showed the complete opposite in December."

In Sochaux, Stephane Dalmat pounced on a loose ball to score on the stroke of halftime with a low strike. Edouard Butin beat the offside trap in the 60th to skip past goalkeeper Nicolas Douchez and secure the victory for Sochaux.

Rennes was one man down in the 11th after forward Asamoah Gyan was red-carded for swinging an arm into Damien Perquis' head.

In Lorient, the host team rallied past Valenciennes with a header from Franco Sosa in the 65th.

Lorient initially got off to a bad start when goalkeeper Fabien Audard missed his clearance kick, letting Johan Audel score into an empty net in the fifth.

Morgan Amalfitano converted a rebound to level for Lorient in the 24th. Gael Danic then cut inside to fire home in the 35th and give the lead back to Valenciennes. But Amalfitano diverted in an off-target shot from Kevin Gameiro to equalize moments into the second half.

Lorient moved into eighth place with 29 points, one clear of mid-table Valenciennes.

In Paris, Peguy Luyindula flicked home a pass from Christophe Jallet in the ninth, and fullback Sylvain Armand doubled PSG's lead in the 18th, heading home a cross from playmaker Stephane Sessegnon. Mevlut Erding added a third goal in the 65th before Christophe Jallet sealed the win with a free kick in the 80th.

PSG climbed to seventh place with 29 points as Grenoble stayed in last place with seven points.

In Le Mans, forward Thorstein Helstad played Anthony Le Tallec in with a headed pass and Le Tallec unleashed a low shot in the 36th. But Park Chu-Young tucked home a cross from Francois-Joseph Modesto in the 50th for his sixth goal this season.

In Nice, Mickael Pote helped the hosts rally twice.

Boulogne, in the relegation zone, took the lead when Damien Perrinelle nodded in a corner kick in the 58th but Pote leveled with a header in the 67th. Jeremy Blayac's counterattack helped Boulogne recapture the lead in the 73rd, but Pote salvaged a draw in the 85th after goalkeeper Jean-Francois Bedenik had denied Loic Remy.