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UPDATE 1-Soccer-Cup specialists Auxerre fall to Bastia

(Updates after late action)

PARIS, Feb 2 - Four-times French Cup winners
Auxerre lost 3-0 at second division Bastia in the round of 32 on
Saturday after being sunk by a Pierre-Yves Andre double.

Forward Andre's goals either side of one by midfielder
Kafoumba Coulibaly inside the first 16 minutes allowed Corsican
side Bastia to brush aside the Burgundy team.

Top-flight Nice also went out to a Ligue 2 side, losing 3-1
at Angers. A goal by Cameroonian forward Paul Alo'o Efoulou and
two from striker Fahid Ben Khalfallah gave Angers a 3-0 lead
before forward Habib Bamogo got a consolation in added time.

Holders Sochaux scraped past second division Montpellier 4-3
on penalties. The tie was 1-1 after extra time.

Girondins Bordeaux, second in the top flight, knocked out Le
Mans 1-0 with a first-half goal from Argentine forward Fernando
Cavenaghi in one of Saturday's two all-Ligue 1 ties.

In the other, Lorient beat Stade Rennes 3-1 on penalties
after a tight Brittany derby was goalless following extra time.

Ligue 1 bottom club Metz went through to the last 16 on
Friday with a 3-0 win at Racing Strasbourg.

Olympique Marseille host Monaco in the pick of Sunday's
round of 32 action.

Ligue 1 leaders Olympique Lyon, dreaming of their first
league and Cup double, have little to fear from their visit to
fourth division Croix-de-Savoie, also on Sunday.

(Writing by Patrick Vignal, editing by Ken Ferris)

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