Ladies & gentlemen in an attempt to expand Mad About Futbol's reach we are going to start giving you roundups of the France's Ligue 1. France's top league of football is one of the most important in the world and deserves more attention than it currently receives. Therefore, MAF will give you a weekly roundup of Ligue 1 including the scores & standings from the most recent round.

The defending champions, Bordeaux got off to an impressive start with their smashing 4-1 home win over 08-09 Ligue 2 champions Lens. Yohan Gourcuff scored twice to lead the France's best club side the 3 points as they gave Lens a harsh introduction into 1st division football.

Last year's runners-up Marseille started the their campaign strong as well with a 2-0 road win over Grenoble. Senegalese forward and Marseille captain Mamadou Niang opened the scoring for l'OM in the 2nd minute and Benoît Cheyrou scored late in the 2nd half to give new coach Didier Deschamps an important 3 points to the start of the season.

As for Lyon, the former 7-straight titlists, they needed a 2nd half injury time goals from newly acquired Argentine forward Lisandro Lopez to salvage a 1-1 road draw against Le Mans.

Here are the results & standings from 1ère Journée:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009

AS Monaco 1 - 0 Toulouse
MON: Anderson Luiz Nené (43')

AJ Auxerre 0 - 1 Sochaux
SOC: Vaclav Sverkos (40')

Montpellier 1 - 1 Paris Saint-Germain
MON: Emir Spahic (90'+4')
PSG: Ludovic Giuly (71')

Stade Rennes 3 - 0 Boulogne
STR: Ismael Bangoura (7'), Abdou Mangane (45'), Jerome Leroy (90'+1')

St. Etienne 0 - 2 Nice
NIC: Mahamane Traore (39') & Loïc Remy (87')

Le Mans 2 - 2 Lyon
LEM: Modibo Maiga (20') & Mathieu Coutadeur (pen 59')
LYO: Mathieu Bodmer (28') & Lisandro López (90')

Grenoble 0 - 2 Marseille
MAR: Mamadou Niang (2') & Benoit Cheyrou (81')

Valenciennes 1 - 3 AS Nancy Lorraine
VAL: Mamadou Samassa (9')
ASN: Julien Féret (17'), Jonathan Brison (60'), Bakaye Traore (pen 71')

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2009

Lille 1 - 2 Lorient
LLE: Olivier Monterubbio (og 66')
LOR: Kevin Gameiro (33') & Marama Vahirua (52')

Bordeaux 4 - 1 Lens
BOR: Wendel (12'), Yoann Gourcuff (54', 90'+3'), Marouane Chamakh (90'+2')
LEN: Issam Jemaa (40')

STANDINGS