Dijon (AFP)

A health walk: after its defeat against Monaco (2-0), Paris, with a double from Kylian Mbappé, relaunched and temporarily regained 2nd place in Ligue 1 by winning without forcing in the last , Dijon (4-0), Saturday in a lackluster match of the 27th day.

The leader, Lille, Lyon (3rd) and Monaco (4th), his opponents in the quest for the title and qualification in the Champions League will only play on Sunday.

Before returning to Barcelona, ​​which they beat 4-1 in the first leg, in the Champions League, on March 10 at the Parc des Princes, PSG will try to stay, this time, in the best possible dynamic by still facing on the move Bordeaux, Wednesday in the league, and Brest on Saturday in the Coupe de France.

But the Parisians will undoubtedly have to put a little more intensity than against the Dijonnais, who, it is true, did not put up a mad resistance.

And PSG did not need to do more: seven shots including five on target for four goals were enough to win.

The absence of major players such as Neymar, Marco Verratti, Angel Di Maria or Mauro Icardi and Alessandro Florenzi, injured or sick, obviously had no consequences and allowed their replacements to demonstrate that Mauricio Pochettino could, also, count. on them.

- Stations of the Cross for Dijon -

He even started in Ligue 1 the young Édouard Michut (17 years old) who entered in the 89th minute.

The Burgundians, very weak, conceded their seventh consecutive defeat and they were only dangerous on a corner in the 56th minute with a recovery from the header of Bruno Ecuele Manga and a shot from Bersant Celina deflected by Keylor Navas (90) .

The end of the season, with relegation in sight as Lorient and Nantes, 18th and 19th, are eight points ahead, may look like a long Stations of the Cross for them.

Thus, facing an opponent once again harmless (a shot on target), the PSG defense spent a completely quiet end of the afternoon during a meeting without suspense and really boring.

This victory is therefore in no way convincing because of the weakness of the opponent.

The champions of France, beaten on this ground last season (2-1), this time avoided any bad surprises.

- Mbappé: 18 goals -

They quickly made the match easy with a goal scored from the start by Moïse Kean, his eleventh of the season after receiving a pass from Abdou Diallo while Kylian Mbappé, very disappointing against Monaco was the origin of action (6).

The French international then doubled the gap by converting a penalty obtained for a foul hand from Bersant Celina on a shot from Tilho Kehrer upon receiving a center back from Rafinha (2-0, 30).

At the start of the second half, Mbappé brought the score to 3-0 at the conclusion of a great collective action developed on the right wing and after a pass from Rafinha (51).

With this double, Mbappé, who will be suspended in Bordeaux, thus brought his total of goals to 18 in Ligue 1 this season, 98 with PSG.

At the end of the game, Danilo victoriously headed a corner played by Julian Draxler (83, 4-0) for his first goal with PSG.

The addition could have even been saltier if two goals from Draxler had not been refused for offside (35, 75).

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