Monaco News

Lille moved up to third in Ligue 1 after handing out a 4-0 thrashing to Monaco in the principality.

Valenciennes continued their impressive start to the Ligue 1 season with a 3-1 victory over Monaco on Saturday night.

Auxerre took over the top spot in Ligue 1 on Saturday as they knocked off Monaco, 2-0, with goals from Adama Coulibaly and Delvin Ndinga.

Monaco will be without the league's top scorer Nene for Saturday's trip to the Stade de l'Abbe-Deschamps as they look to deny Auxerre a seventh consecutive Ligue 1 victory.

The Fantasist supposes you want to know the fallout from the circus that was Lyon 5-5 Marseille, don't you? Well, Lisandro Lopez bagged twice to kickstart his Lyon career, while his crafty team-mate Miralem Pjanic scored one and created two more.

Grenoble finally claimed their first point of the season in unlikely circumstances with a goalless draw at high-flying Monaco.

Auxerre notched its sixth straight win in beating struggling Le Mans 1-0 and moved above Monaco into third place in the French league on Saturday.

PARIS: Bafetimbi Gomis marked his return to Saint-Etienne by scoring the winning goal for Lyon in the Rhone derby on Saturday, after league leaders Bordeaux won 1-0 at home to Monaco.

Ligue 1 champions Bordeaux made hard work of a narrow victory against Monaco with only a goal separating the sides.

Bordeaux's Benoit Tremoulinas, left, battles for the ball against Monaco's Igor Lolo during their French League soccer match Saturday.

Bordeaux extended its lead in the French league on Saturday by beating second-place Monaco 1-0 through Marc Planus' second-half goal.

Bordeaux v Monaco. Click here to bet. Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc has admitted his surprise at Monaco's strong start to the season and has backed them to push his Ligue 1 champions all the way on Saturday.

FORMER Monaco and Bordeaux midfielder Camel Meriem has been training with Blackburn Rovers as Sam Allardyce continues his search for new talent.

The Mirror says Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce is ready to snap up former Monaco midfield star Meriem - after he missed out on a move to his old club Bolton .

Two goals in the last four minutes by Nene saw Monaco claim a 3-1 victory over a Boulogne side who played for 55 minutes with just 10 men.

French champions Bordeaux moved to the top of Ligue 1 with a 3-0 home win over Le Mans while former leaders Lyon were crushed 4-1 at struggling Nice.

Monaco reclaimed fourth place in Ligue 1 with a comfortable 2-0 victory over struggling Lens at the Stade Louis II.

Brazilian midfielder Nene scored both goals as Monaco beat Lens 2-0 on Sunday to close within two points of French league leader Lyon.

Coach Jean-Guy Wallemme agreed with Lens president Gervais Martel's assessment that his side's position in Ligue 1 was "worrying but not catastrophic". Martel made the comments earlier this week in the run-up to the game at Monaco, with Lens 17th in the table having won just two games so far this season.

Man Utd v Bolton. Click here to bet. Bolton have ruled out a move for Newcastle midfielder Alan Smith, but Gary Megson has invited French midfielder Camel Meriem for a trial.