Bordeaux — Best pictures!

Bordeaux’s young defender Marc Planus (pictured) captured the 3rd spot in the FTBL Top 23 of French defenders after his side’s convincing 4:1 victory over RC Lens in Ligue 1 action.

Olympique Marseille’s Steve Mandanda (pictured) re-claimed the top spot in the FTBL ranking of goalkeepers in the French Ligue 1 when he helped his side to a 2:0 win over Grenoble in the season opener yesterday.

Bordeaux clinched their first title in 10 years away at Caen with a 1:0 win that led to substantial changes in the FTBL rating of goalkeepers in the Ligue 1, with Marseille’s Steve Mandanda losing his top spot to Bordeaux’s Ulrich Rame (pictured left).

A draw against Monaco will be enough for Bordeaux to clinch the title on Saturday, with the only player of the Ligue 1 in the FTBL World Top 23, Yoann Gourcuff (pictured right), having a plank of 13 rating points to beat. He set the plank in Bordeaux’s

Marseille’s left-back and Nigeria international Taye Taiwo has grabbed the lead in our FTBL rating of best defenders of the French Ligue 1 from Bordeaux’s Senegalese defender Souleymane Diawara in addition to that of African players.