The Dijon Gazette
Match26 Dec 2026
No mercy from Dijon
LB Chateauroux will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dijon were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Both of them Julien Domingues's — 8.86
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.86, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Brandon Ndezi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dijon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Michaël Barreto, 35, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match26 Dec 2026
7 unbeaten for Dijon
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Dijon did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Dijon
Julio Tavares and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Anass Benyahya is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match26 Dec 2026
Dijon make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alejo Sarco falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Ayman Kari
- Squad Saïm Balmain pulls a muscle — 14 days out
- Player ratings A masterclass from Ayman Kari