we can't wait for the saturday tri nations and the chelski vs arsenil community shield later.so let's go on to more French and German action

Sochaux 0 PSG 1(Cisse:51)
looks smooth.but the home side did pose a few problems,although they were reduced to duds in the end.looks great for the Parisians

Metz 0 Le Mans 0
yawn...so blank

Troyes 0 St Etienne 0
it was definitely boring,but Troyes are making some kind of headway presently.i hope the draws thingy is a short term measure

Bordeaux 1 (Chamakh:4) Nancy 0
very brave.but in the end there were no contest between noobies and old hands

Lens 2(S.Keita:37,Hilton:60) Maresille 0
badly depleted Marseillais lost against buoyant Northerners.but at least they had Intertoto to numb themselves

Monaco 0 Auxerre 2(Violeau 26,Pieroni:77)
Evra got sent off,as 1 red a game Monegasques flop.Let's hope Betis doesn't humiliate them to the same degree

Toulouse 0 Nice 2(Kone:17,Traore:30)
none of the last season trouble as they fire on all cylinders nowadays

Ajaccio 3(Rocchi:12,Lucas:28,Saifi:66) Lille 3(Makoun:19,Gygax:39,Debuchy:90+2)
it's Cat and Dogue,as Lille nearly lost after chasing the Islanders around.Count them lucky

By then Essien is now doing a Robinho.let's go to Germany instead,where the stuff's better

Werder Bremen 5(Klose:1,81,Klasnic:19,84,Baumann:36) Arminia 2(Krupnikovic:12,Zuma:30)
from what you see,it's all too good for the green-and-Orange.to all Basel fans:you've been warned

Hamburg 3(E.Mpenza:3,Barbarez:30,60) Nuremburg 0
looking good,as the hamburgers tore up their opponents

Duisburg 1(Ahanfouf:31) Stuttgart 1(Cacau:5)
to cap off a disappointing afternoon,Cacau the goalscorer got an early shower in the second half

Cologne 1(Schlicke:87) Mainz 0
there's none of Podolski's one man show.but there's sure lots of emotion as the Cologne team earns a fine return to the big time

Wolfsburg 2(Kilmowicz:9,Hofland:82) Dortmund 2(Smolarek:55,Koller:81)
neck to neck duel only tempered by the late goals

Hanover 2(Dabrowski:66,Tarnat:87) Hertha 2(Marcelinho:49,Wichniarek:54)
just how the heck could the Berliners blow away a 2 goal lead remains to be investigated