Defending Champions Bordeaux have gotten off to a flyer of a start by drubbing newcomers Lens 4-1 at home in their league opener.
Unsettled Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh, Brazilian maestro Wendel and midfield ace Yoann Gourcuff scored to steer the champions home in style.
It took Bordeaux just 13 minutes to take the lead when Wendel, who was put in the clear by Chamakh, passed to Argentine striker Fernando Cavenaghi, who inturn cut inside two defenders before curling a sweet left-foot drive into the corner past Lens' Croatian keeper Vedran Runje.
But Lens levelled five minutes from the interval through Tunisian international Issam Jemaa whose diving header, from a cross by Yohan Demont, comfortably beat Cedric Carrasso in the champions' goal.
And Gourcuff stepped up to restore parity when he gave Bordeaux the lead in the 52nd minute with a stinging drive from the outside of the box, helped in by a deflection on its way into the net.
However, minutes later Abdoulrazak Boukari thought he had equalised for Lens when his bullet header from a free-kick, was ruled out for a marginal offside.
Chamakh stroked in the third in the first minute of injury time before his cheeky backheel helped create Gourcuff's second, and Bordeaux's fourth, just before the final whistle.
Bordeaux, at this moment, look comfortable as they lead the table.
