The Dijon Gazette
Match3 Nov 2032
Patrick Vidal sends Dijon through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Patrick Vidal obliged against Angers SCO. 3‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dijon.
Match3 Nov 2032
Dijon win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 99th minute. Angers SCO will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings8 Nov 2032
No sign of nerves from Patrick Vidal at 17 — 7.77
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Patrick Vidal did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout8 Nov 2032
Paris Polykarpou says Dijon went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings8 Nov 2032
Lionel Ngangué pops up at the right end — 7.90
7.90, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market8 Nov 2032
Moussa Djénépo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dijon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings8 Nov 2032
Mauro Rodrigues was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad8 Nov 2032
Kjetil Haug 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.
Squad8 Nov 2032
A row about effort at Dijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauro Rodrigues was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Patrick Vidal
- Squad Clancy Biten Valere makes it 100
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Lassana N'Diaye