Monaco 1-0 Ajaccio

Monaco moved up to second in Ligue 1 with a dominant victory over Ajaccio.

The hosts looked under threat of being frustrated before Jean-Baptiste Pierazzi was sent off after 62 minutes for a second booking.

They got their goal when Emmanuel Riviere tapped home from a yard after Valere Germain and Andrea Raggi both failed to put the ball in from a similar distance seconds earlier.

James Rodriguez hit the post with two late free-kicks.

Monaco took advantage of Lille's earlier slip to overtake them into second and move to within two points of leaders Paris St-Germain.

Landry N'Guemo had scored the only goal as Bordeaux won 1-0.

It was the first time Lille keeper Vincent Enyeama had conceded in 1,062 minutes, under two matches away from Bordeaux custodian Gaetan Huard's record of 1,176 minutes in 1992-93.

Monaco, who were without injured top scorer Radamel Falcao, were on top for the entire 90 minutes but failed to take a host of chances before Pierazzi's two bookings, both for fouls on Rodriguez.

Riviere scored the goal after it looked like another squandered chance by two of his team-mates and had Rodriguez gone an inch closer with both of his free-kicks, the visitors could have had no complaints.