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Benzema sinks Marseille

AFP, Paris
Bordeaux's hopes of ending their 10-year wait for the French league title were boosted Sunday when defending champions Lyon beat Marseille 3-1 at their imposing Velodrome stadium.
Karim Benzema proved a two-goal hero for Claude Pud's visitors, beating Steve Mandanda from the spot with a first half penalty before coolly slotting past the Marseille keeper after a defencesplitting pass on 42 minutes.
Marseille dominated for periods in the first half with Mahamadou Niang hitting the post with a bullet strike in the 16th minute.
Just how costly his miss was became apparent when Benzema scored from the penalty spot in the 29th minute after he was । brought down by Brazilian Brandao.
Benzema's second seemed to take the wind out of Marseille's sails.
The hosts struggled to get back into the match in a somewhat dull second half that was livened up when Benzema pounced on a defensive error to test Mandanda again, only this time the keeper won their duel.
Marseille reduced the arrears in the 80th minute through Sylvain . Wiltord but despite a late rally by the hosts their brief revival came too late.
, In the fourth minute of injury time a superb long-range free-kick
from Brazilian Juninho stunned the hosts.
Nevertheless with two games remaining it is still all to play for in a league which, this season, has been incredibly hard to predict
Bordeaux face Monaco next week at home then Caen away on the final match day while Marseille travel to Nancy next week before ; hostingRennesonMay30.
Lyon are already out of the title race but are still battling to secure a Champions League spot for next season.
This latest victory hoists them up to third at the expense of Paris St Germain - who were stunned 2-1 by Auxerre on Saturday - on 67 points, four behind Marseille and seven behind Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, coached by former France international Laurent Blanc, took a major stride towards their first league trophy since 1999 with a crucial 3-2 win over plucky Le Mans on Saturday.
It was the south-west coast side's ninth win on the trot.
On-loan AC Milan midfielder Yoann Gourcuff was inspirational, helping set up Marouane Chamakh's equaliser in the 38th minute • before giving the hosts the lead on the stroke of half-time then i settingupMarcPlanusforthematchwinneron76minutcs.
Le Mans, to their credit, came in search of the points and had i taken the lead through Anthony Le Tallec in the 24th minute before hescored his second of the game eight minutes after the restart.