The Dijon Gazette
Squad22 Oct 2035
The knee: Sharani Zuberu out for 150 days
150 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match22 Oct 2035
The view from the top for Dijon
26 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market22 Oct 2035
Bilal Boukerchaoui is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match20 Oct 2035
Still nobody has beaten Dijon
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Younes Lachaab in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Words at Dijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enoch Owusu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
Joakim Loureiro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match20 Oct 2035
Late, late show earns Dijon a point
Minute 87, against Clermont Foot, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match20 Oct 2035
The run is over for Dijon
4 matches without defeat, and then Clermont Foot. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
In brief
- Player ratings Andrea Luongo beats them one at a time
- Squad Dijon lose Daniel Renault
- Match Dijon share the spoils with Clermont Foot