Icardi, Mbappe and Cavani are not enough: the "poor people" of the Dijon mortify a suspicious PSG | First page

The last ones that beat and mortify the former. Yes, sir, miracles exist in football. Because the success of the "poor people" of the Dijon over the princes and kings of the PSG is a miracle. "A game already marked". "Too much distance, too much difference between the PSG of the stars and the Dijon unable to detach itself from the bottom of the Ligue 1". "A game from which it is useless to expect who knows what". Yes, this was the reason for the Gaston-Gerard before it began. Logical, given the numbers that the PSG brought with it. But no. Instead it rains emotions. unexpected, it is true, but always welcome if the sense of the ball is also to have fun at least a little. And if so, the merit is above all from the Dijon. Because the team of Jobard this game if it plays with the strength of pride and, above all, with the knowledge that letting it only at the Psg would have meant a surrender without honor. In fact, the Dijon is a strong part. Balde and Tavares immediately inform Navas (2 'and 4 ’) that they are looking for the company. Navas understands this because it concerns him closely, but the rest of the team plays arrogantly. It seems distracted, the Psg. Maluccio the defense, in fact, and so the midfield. In short: Gomis, formerly of Toro, shivers only when he sees the ball between the feet of those three in front: Mbappe, Icardi and Di Maria, fine prompter and bomber if necessary. In conclusion, I live in the Dijon that wants to make the Psg look good and half asleep who does not have Neymar, still a steel-bearer, who has Cavani on the bench and Verratti at home, to celebrate perhaps the very rich contract just renewed until 2024. So, it goes that it is almost a beauty – at least compared to the previous matches – this Dijon tactically also a little revised by Jobard. For twenty minutes the ball is his, for twenty minutes the stadium gets excited. But you know how the champions are. Nothing is enough for them, just a bit of space to show off. And in fact it only takes one game, the first real play of the whole game, to Parisians to score goals: Di Maria suggests and (20 ’) Mbappe softly jumps Gomis with the delicate and very precise right.

It seems the end for the poor Dijon which is also unlucky given that for injuries they leave Coulibaly and Chafik, replaced by Mendy and Amalfitano. It seems, though. Because the home team does not come down. It is not intimidating. Don't back away. Indeed, he continues in his desperate attempt. And in the extra time of the first half he finds the same. With Chouiar, the Franco-Moroccan former Lens and fresh cool Dijon mesh. A twenty year old who answers to a twenty year old, even if for Mounir Chouiar this is only the first goal in the league. Equal in the Dijon, however. Equal to the last second before rest, but also a deserved peer. And that's not all. Because Jobard's team starts right where it left off a quarter of an hour before. Ready away, in fact, and it's Cadiz this time to score. A nice goal. A nice personal game that rubs Navas and enchants the Dijon stadium. That's right: the last of the class with the tricolor cockade and the first behind the blackboard.

Yes, but at this point the game changes. Logical. At this point the PSG must exit from torpor, from its reluctance. And, in fact, throughout the second half, except for rare attempts, he sees the PSG in a spirited attack and the Dijon in front of Gomis, who knows how to make himself respected. Indeed, he denies the same to Di Maria (55 ’) and Mbappe (57’). And if he isn't there, there are the poles to stop Icardi (64 ’) and Paredes (69’). And if there is no him and there are no poles, they are still the feet of Di Matria, of Icardi and in the end also of Cavani to miss. There are five, six, seven goals that waste Psg under the incredulous eyes of Tuchel that the game ends with four points. And what tips: Icardi, Di Maria, Cavani and Mbappe! But so much abundance, so much wealth, so much grace of God is not enough for the champions of France to pass. To find at least the equal. No sir. Also this time the ball punishes the presumptuous. So in the end there is glory only for the Dijon, whose rose, just to say, in full, is worth just a quarter of the value of Mbappe.

THE TABLE

Dijon-PSG 2-1 (first half 1-1)

Dijon (4-4-2): Gomis, Chafik (from 33 'Mendyl), Coulibaly (from 29' Amalfitano), Ecuele Manga, Muzinga, Balde (from 53 'Mavididi), Lautoa, Ndong, Chouiar, Cadiz, Tavares. Allard Jobard

PSG (4-3-3): Navas, Dagba, Diallo (from 80 'Draxler), Kimpembe, Bernat (from 64 ’Kurzawa), Gueye, Marquinhos, Paredes (from 71’ Cavani), Di Maria, Icardi, Mbappe. All. Tuchel

Referee: Ruddy Buquet (Amiens)

Gol: 19 ’Mbappe (P), 45’ + 6 ’Chouiar (D), 47’ Cadiz (D)

Ammonites: Ndong, Cadiz, Mendyl (D), Kimpempe, Draxler (P)