The Dijon Gazette
Match18 Sep 2034
Dijon refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market18 Sep 2034
Cheick Diarra 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.
Player ratings18 Sep 2034
Nobody could get near Joaquín Ruiz
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Words at Dijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sofyan Chader 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.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Kenzo Cotten 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.
Match16 Sep 2034
Dijon find a way past Stade Lavallois
Stade Lavallois made Dijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings18 Sep 2034
One of those days for Amine Messoussa
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Dijon keep their word to Joaquín Ruiz
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad18 Sep 2034
Dijon have changed shape — and kept it
Nothing was announced, because nothing ever is. The team sheet simply stopped looking the way it did, 2 matches ago, and it has not looked that way since. Every supporter noticed in the same week and none of them were told.
In brief
- Market Henri Barré leaves for nothing
- Market Thibault Robert leaves for nothing