Rennes (AFP)
Beaten in Rennes (5-1) on Sunday, Dijon recorded its relegation to Ligue 2 from the 34th day, with a new symptomatic poor performance of the deficiencies of the DFCO.
With 13 points behind Nantes and Nîmes, currently 18th and 19th in the standings, David Linarès' troop is relegated to four days from the end, since only twelve points remain at stake.
This 22nd defeat in 34 matches sends, logically, the Burgundians - who have compiled only 18 points this season - to the lower level.
This relegation had been expected for weeks for a club which has won only three victories in this long season.
On the Rennes lawn, the Dijonnais still managed to maintain their meager hope of survival at the start of the game, with the early opening of the score from Yassine Benzia (9th sp), but they had to give up in the face of the Rennes vista. , led by their offensive asset number 1 Martin Terrier, author of a double (16th, 71st).
Too kind in too many situations, they owed their salvation for a long time to the solid performance of their goalkeeper Saturnin Allagbé, decisive in front of Terrier in particular.
But the Bretons, them, did not deviate from their desires for the European Cup by taking advantage of the defensive largesse of the DFCO to go, in the last twenty minutes, to offer themselves a precious success.
Terrier (71st), Flavien Tait (72nd), Gerzino Nyamsi (81st) and Clément Grenier (90th) increased the score for visitors.
With this success - fifth in the last six games - Rennes remains firmly in the field of fifth place contenders with Lens and Marseille, who are ahead of Rennes by 2 and 1 points respectively.
Since the arrival of Bruno Genesio on the bench, the Bretons have taken 16 points out of 21 possible ...
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