Last update 25 February, 2013 by Julio Muñoz
Paris Saint Germain emerged victorious from the visit of Olympique Marseille (2-0) to protect the lead in the Liga de France, which is three points ahead of Lyon, who beat Lorient.
On the day of the debut of the Englishman David Beckham, who took the field in place of the Argentine Javier Pastore with a quarter of an hour remaining, The Parisian team got the three points against an opponent who started the match as a contender and ended up almost ruled out of the fight.
An own goal from Cameroonian Nicolas N'Koulou against the 11 minutes put the game back on track for Carlo Ancelotti's team, that sentenced him in added time with a goal from the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Lyon maintains the type. He took the three points from the visit of Lorient (3-1) to continue his pursuit of Paris Saint Germain. The Argentine Lisandro López opened the scoring although Jeremie Aliadiere equalized for the visitors until the Algerian Rachid Ghezzal and Arnold Mvuemba sealed the match.
The Bordeaux, however, stumbled in front of Brest (0-2), who took a breath in his objective of avoiding the threat of relegation. The Czech Mario Licka and the Moroccan Ahmed Kantari gave the visitors three points.