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Bordeaux kept their Ligue 1 title hopes alive with a 2-1 home victory over mid-table Nice.

Bordeaux, with just one win in their last six league games, moved up to third with 50 points from 28 games, three points behind leaders Lyon who host Auxerre on Sunday.

They won thanks to goals by Morocco striker Marouane Chamakh, who opened the scoring from close range after 18 minutes, and defender Henrique, who headed home a cross from fellow Brazilian Wendel just after half-time.

Habib Bamogo had given the visitors hope when he equalised from the penalty spot five minutes after they went behind.

Toulouse squandered an opportunity to go second when a late Igor Lolo goal gave Monaco a 3-2 home win e to hand the visitors their first defeat in 13 Ligue 1 games.

Toulouse are fifth with 49 points from 28 matches.

Ligue 1 top scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac had put Toulouse in front with his 17th goal of the season in the 26th minute before Frederic Nimani levelled six minutes before the break after a free kick by Gignac's cousin Yohan Mollo.

Mauro Cetto put Toulouse back in front with a header in the 67th but two goals in the last 15 minutes from Francois-Joseph Modesto, with a superb scissors kick, and Lolo pushed Monaco up to ninth albeit just four points above the relegation places.

Michel Fernandes Bastos gave Lille a 1-0 victory at Caen, who have not won since late November, to take the northern side into sixth spot on goal difference, four points off the pace.

Rennes recovered from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw at Le Mans but slipped one place to seventh on 47 points.

After Lyon host Auxerre, second-placed Paris St-Germain welcome arch-rivals Marseille, who are three points behind them in fourth.

Reuters