The former resident of L1 last season remained on two defeats against Ajaccio and Paris FC, and was pushed back to 18th place after the success of Bastia and Valenciennes this weekend.
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This victory allows Patrice Garande's men to move up to 12th place, three points ahead of the first relegation, Dunkirk (18th, 16 points).
Auxerre, who could hope to take the leading position in Toulouse before this day, lost his place as runner-up, relegated to third position after Ajaccio's victory at Dunkirk on Saturday.
The Auxerrois who remained on a series of three successes in the league, are now 4 units from Toulouse (1st, 33 pts) and two from the Corsicans (2nd, 31 pts).
Despite domination in the first minutes of the match, Jean-Marc Furlan's men were unable to capitalize on the opportunities they obtained, especially in the 6th minute when Gaëtan Perrin's volley was superbly countered by the Dijon goalkeeper, Anthony Racioppi.
Conversely, the AJA, in front of its audience, was able to demonstrate realism, scoring on its first two occasions of the meeting.
It was first Valentin Jacob who opened the scoring of a recovery with the flat left foot, scoring his first goal with Dijon in Ligue 2 (16th, 1-0).
Then Aurélien Scheidler came to dig the advantage about twenty minutes later (39th, 2-0), after a mess of the goalkeeper Auxerre, who failed to block the ball, sending it back to the feet of Scheidler, who did not more had to push him into the goal.
In the second period, Gaétan Charbonnier came to close the gap (61st, 2-1), scoring his 9th goal of the season.
But the Dijonnais returned to the charge again with a strike from Yassine Benzia, deflected by Jubal's calf to deceive Donovan Léon (79th, 3-1).
The two Burgundian formations had not faced each other in an official match since April 2016, and logically the meeting took place in a highly charged atmosphere.
If during the match, the atmosphere remained good-natured, violence had broken out between supporters of the two camps in a Dijon bar a few hours before kick-off, causing no injuries but causing significant material damage in the establishment. .