All you need to know about Troyes v. Paris

A BIT OF HISTORY...

This will be the 33rd competitive meeting between Paris Saint-Germain and Troyes, with the record sitting heavily in favour of the capital club, who have 21 wins, seven draws and four defeats in this fixture.

Paris are unbeaten in their last 19 competitive fixtures against Troyes, boasting 16 wins and three draws. Their last defeat against Les Troyens dates back to 4th November 2001 (a 1-0 away loss).

This 19-game run is just outside the club's five longest-ever unbeaten streaks against a single team, behind those against Angers (ongoing 29-game streak since 1975), Saint-Étienne (ongoing 25-game streak since 2012), Brest (ongoing 25-game streak since 1985), Nantes (22-game streak from 2004 to 2019) and Marseille (20-game streak from 2011 to 2020).

Paris's 9-0 thumping of Troyes on 13th March 2016 was a record win in the club's top-flight history (together with the 9-0 win over Guingamp at the Parc des Princes on 19th January 2019). It also set the record for the biggest away win in the entire history of the French first division.

Troyes was where a Paris Saint-Germain player first succeeded in scoring a hat trick away from home, with all three of Paris's goals in a 3-1 win there on 26th October 1974 scored by Guy Nosibor.

This match will also be Les Parisiens' 16th competitive fixture in Troyes, with their record there standing at seven wins, four draws and four defeats. Paris are also on a run of seven games without defeat at the Stade de l'Aube since the aforementioned 1-0 loss on 4th November 2001, earning five wins and two draws in that time.

13 players have played for both clubs: Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, Selim Benachour, Branko Bošković, Fabrice Fiorèse, Yann Lachuer, Ronan Le Crom, Laurent Leroy, Patrice Loko, Blaise Matuidi, Granddi Ngoyi, Grégory Paisley, Thierry Rabat and Jérôme Rothen. Current Troyes players Thierno Baldé and Wilson Odobert, who were developed in Paris, never played in a competitive fixture for the capital club's first team.

Pedro Miguel Pauleta and Zlatan Ibrahimović are Paris Saint-Germain's top scorers against Troyes with seven goals scored each, putting them ahead of Carlos Bianchi, Edinson Cavani, François M’Pelé and Guy Nosibor (four goals each) as well as Neymar Jr, Laurent Robert and Ronaldinho (three goals each).

THE STAKES...

League leaders Paris, who are three points ahead of Lens, will be hoping to return to winning ways after their 3-1 defeat at home to Lorient last Sunday.

The capital club are on a run of four straight away wins in the league (3-0 v. Marseille, 2-1 v. Brest, 2-0 v. Nice and 2-1 v. Angers) and have come out on top in 12 of their 16 away games so far this season, falling to just one draw and three defeats.

Whatever happens, Paris will be Ligue 1 leaders for the 70th consecutive round of fixtures since Matchday 3 of the 2021–2022 season – an unprecedented feat in France.

THE KEYS TO THE GAME...

Kylian Mbappé will be looking to open his account at the Stade de l'Aube, as Troyes are one of just four clubs in Ligue 1 this season that haven't conceded a goal to Paris's no. 7 on home soil. Lens, Lorient and Auxerre (a team that Mbappé has never faced in Burgundy with Paris Saint-Germain) are the three other sides in this quartet.

Troyes are a club that Paris's goalscorers have a particular liking for. Carlos Bianchi was the first Paris Saint-Germain player to score four goals in a single top-flight game, and it happened in an 8-2 win over Troyes in the 1977–1978 season. Patrice Loko (in a 5-0 win over Nice on 27th April 1997), Christian (in a 4-2 win over Strasbourg on 26th January 2000), Zlatan Ibrahimović (in the aforementioned 9-0 win over Troyes on 13th March 2016), Edinson Cavani (in a 6-0 win over Caen on 16th September 2016), Neymar Jr (in an 8-0 win over Dijon on 17th January 2018) and Kylian Mbappé (in a 5-0 win over Lyon on 7th October 2018) have also achieved this feat for Les Rouge et Bleu, showing that two out of the seven occasions on which Paris have bagged a four-goal haul in a single top-flight game have been against ESTAC.

Note: these statistics take into account games played against TAF (Troyes Aube Football), the professional football club in Troyes before the creation of ESTAC in 1986.