Bordeaux — Best pictures!

Bordeaux’s Marouane Chamakh (center) was able to hold on to the top spot in the FTBL ranking of forwards in the French Ligue 1 thanks to the win over Grenoble.

Bordeaux’s Marouane Chamakh (left) will find it hard to retain the top spot in the ranking of forwards in the French Ligue 1. In today’s game against Grenoble, he will face a daunting plank of 27.1 points to beat, while No.2 Gervinho of Lille is just

The first 22 names in the FTBL ranking of French players all have scores above 100 points. Only Fiorentina goalkeeper Sebastien Frey, the No. 23, is below that threshold, at 96.52 points.

Lille’s Cote d’Ivoire forward Gervinho beat the daunting plank of 37.6 rating points he faced in the Ligue 1 game against Nancy yesterday with a lot of style: 2 goals and a 4:0 away win.

French Ligue 1 leaders Bordeaux will play their last game of the year at Toulouse on Wednesday, and it will be interesting to watch in which direction Brazilian midfielder Fernando’s FTBL score head.