UPDATE 2-Soccer-Bordeaux win 3-2 to go three points clear

Sat May 16, 2009 10:07pm BST
 
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* Bordeaux struggle to 3-2 home victory

* Marseille host Lyon on Sunday

* Lyon out of the running for the title

* Top scorer Gignac nets his 22nd goal (Updates after PSG v Auxerre game, adds new quotes from Blanc)

By Claude Canellas

BORDEAUX, France, May 16 (Reuters) - Girondins Bordeaux struggled to a 3-2 victory at home against Le Mans to move three points clear at the top of Ligue 1 on Saturday.

Bordeaux's ninth successive win in the league put them on 74 points, three ahead of Olympique Marseille, who host Olympique Lyon on Sunday.

Marseille will go back to the top on goal difference if they beat the outgoing champions.

Third-place Lyon are now 10 points behind Bordeaux and cannot be crowned champions for an eighth year in a row.  Continued...

 

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