Ligue 1 round-up

Surprise results mean frontrunners stumble

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Ligue 1 round-up

Clement: Upset Auxerre

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Ligue 1 leaders Auxerre slipped to a shock defeat at Paris St-Germain, while Lorient climbed to second despite only grabbing a last-minute home draw with bottom club Grenoble.

European hopefuls Valenciennes also suffered a surprise setback as they were thumped at Lille, who sat 14th at kick-off.

Toulouse ensured Boulogne stayed in the relegation zone, while Sochaux upset Nice, and Lens beat Marseille in the dying stages in other unusual results on Saturday evening.

Montpellier's trip to Monaco was postponed after three of the visitors' players contracted swine flu.

Auxerre were hoping to stretch their lead over Bordeaux, who travel to Nancy on Sunday, at the summit, but they slipped to a 1-0 defeat to PSG in the capital.

Jeremy Clement scored the only goal of the game after 66 minutes when heading Ceara's cross.

Lorient therefore moved to within one point of top spot as they grabbed a dramatic, late equaliser in a 2-2 draw with Grenoble at Yves-Allainmat.

A Bostjan Cesar own goal had given the home side a 36th minute lead, but Grenoble, who recorded only a second away point of the season, turned the match on its head.

Daisuke Matsui (62) and Jimmy Juan (70) both scored in the space of eight second-half minutes, leaving Lorient to scramble a point thanks to a last-gasp Kevin Gameiro goal.

Valencienes could have climbed into the top four with three points at Lille, but they instead dropped to seventh after a 4-0 defeat.

Pierre-Alain Frau (41), Gervinho (52 and 60) both scored before Yohan Cabaye completed the rout with an 86th minute penalty.

Boulogne remained in the bottom three after Mohamed Fofana's 28th minute header proved enough to secure a victory for Toulouse.

Nice sunk to 10th after losing 1-0 at Sochaux where Yassan Mikari also struck in the 28th minute, hitting a left-footed shot past David Ospina.

An injury-time Eduardo dos Santos goal gave RC Lens all three points in a 1-0 win over Marseille.