PARIS - Fourth-tier Grenoble came from behind three times before producing the first giant killing of the French Cup with a 5-4 win on penalties over league leader Marseille on Sunday.Other top-flight favourites avoided falling at the first hurdle as Lyon, Monaco and Bordeaux all progressed to the round of 32.France forward Andre-Pierre Gignac scored a first-half brace but the 10-time winners failed to hold on to their lead on a very poor surface at the Stade des Alpes, with the teams locked 3-3 after extra timeMourad Nasrallah and Fares Hachi cancelled out Gignac goals before Ghana winger Andre Ayew looked to have scored the winner in extra time with a tap-in from close range. But Grenoble captain Selim Bengriba then headed home a last-second equalizer to take Marcelo Bielsas side to a penalty shootout.I dont have the technical qualities of the best players but I have strong mental abilities, Bengriba said. Im not used to score goals and I scratched my knees afterward (while celebrating)Former Grenoble player Florian Thauvin missed from the spot during the shootout and Nasrallah sent Brice Samba the wrong way to knock out Marseille.There is no point analyzing this match, Bielsa said. This is an unacceptable result and Im mainly responsible for it.After a strong first half to the season that saw it climb to second in the league standings, Lyon picked up where it left off before the Christmas break and quickly built a 3-0 lead before resisting a late charge from Lens to win 3-2.Monaco was in control from the start against second-division side Nimes and won 2-0 with goals from Bernardo Silva and Valere Germain, while Bordeaux defeated Toulouse 2-1.Guingamp began its title defence with a 3-0 victory at fifth-tier side Dinan Lehon and Franck Tabanou scored the winner seven minutes into extra time with a half-volley into the top corner as Saint-Etienne scrapped to a 1-0 win over Nancy.Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette, the leading goal scorer in the league with 17 goals, netted a penalty after Nabil Fekir opened the scoring and Mouhamadou Dabo then extended the visitors lead to 3-0 after only 30 minutes. Alharbi El Jadeyaoui pulled one back 14 minutes from time and Adamo Coulibaly ensured a nervy finish after heading home in the 90th minute.We should not be allowed to frighten ourselves like that, said Lacazette. Its always a pleasure to be decisive, its good for the group.Monaco was offered a strong resistance from Nimes, with the second tier side looking for redemption after making the headlines in a suspected match fixing case that is still ongoing. Leonardo Jardims side went ahead in the 33rd minute and waited until added time to seal its spot in the next round.We continue our good string of results with a seventh consecutive win, Jardim said. It was our first match after the break, the pitch was not good and the players were not at 100 per cent, but we showed the good attitude and solidarity.Paris Saint-Germain visits Montpellier on Monday. Fake Air Max 1 For Sale . 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Since the beginning of November, the unit boasts a very unflattering 73 per cent success rate, yielding 13 goals alone in the past 15 games. No team, in fact, has allowed more power play goals this season (43). "The biggest negative is were giving up too many goals," said head coach Randy Carlyle of the beleaguered penalty kill. "Thats an area we definitely have got to improve on to give ourselves a better chance [to win]. You cant and we do not believe that you can give up a power play goal to the opposition every game and have success." Success a year ago, in which they killed off an impressive 87.9 per cent in the lockout-shortened 48-game campaign, was a true rarity. In the seven seasons between the last two lockouts – from 05-06 to 11-12 – the Leafs never had a penalty kill finish higher than even 24th overall – sitting 24th, 27th, 29th, 30th, 30th, 28th, and 28th. And yet despite employing most of the same personnel as last season – with Jay McClement, Nik Kulemin, Carl Gunnarsson and Dion Phaneuf absorbing the bulk of minutes (new Leaf Tim Gleason proving an added resource) – the results, oddly, have not followed. In their most recent failing, the Leaf penalty kill allowed a pair of power play goals in a 5-4 overtime loss to the Jets – the eighth time theyve allowed two or more in a game in the past 40 outings. "If we string together a couple games with a good PK, confidence rises," Gunnarsson said. "If you have a couple bad games where they score 50 per cent on us, that confidence goes down." 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Losing more faceoffs, quite simply, means more time spent in-zone defending which results in fatigue, more shots against and thus, more goals for the opposition. "It seems like if we have six minutes [shorthanded] a night, were doing a good job for five and a half [of those minutes]," said McClement, "and then we dont get a puck down [the ice] and we have tired legs and its hard for us to kill the way were supposed to kill with tired legs." Though the group believes it has upped the requisite aggressiveness of last season in recent days, theyve often found themselves burned by a simple mistake, such as a failed read or clear. Against the Jets for instance, it was an inability to pick up a hot-charging Blake Wheeler on the first goal, a failure to intercept Tobias Enstroms point-pass to an unchecked Bryan Little in the slot on the second. "It feels like were doing some good things," McClement said. 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