Find out all you need to know ahead of tonight's Week 7 Ligue 1 match between Paris Saint-Germain and Reims at the Parc des Princes.
A little history...
Paris Saint-Germain and the Stade de Reims have met 24 times in official competition. The capital club have won ten, drawn seven and lost seven.
At the Parc des Princes, Les Rouge et Bleu's last loss came 3-2 way back on 21 December 1975. Since then, Paris have won seven and drawn once.
15 players have played for both clubs: Manuel Abreu, Carlos Bianchi, Grégory Bourillon, Bernard Bureau, François Calderaro, Jean-François Charbonnier, Antoine Conte, Amara Diané, Antoine Garceran, Dominique Lokoli, David N’Gog, Richard Niederbacher, Alain Polaniok, Younousse Sankharé and Siaka Tiené.
Paris Saint-Germain's all-time top scorer against Reims is Edinson Cavani with seven goals, including six scored at the Parc des Princes in the last four matches in Paris. François M’Pelé is next with 5 goals.
The stakes...
Top of the table, Paris can count on their defensive steel: the capital club have kept five consecutive clean sheets in all competitions, equalling the best run since 2011. The all-time club record is ten consecutive clean sheets in all comeptitions in the 1996-97 season.
Keylor Navas will also be looking to build on his excellent debuts for Paris: 3 matches and 270 minutes without conceding. The Paris goalkeeper is already in the Top 5 for debut 'keepers, behind Claude Barrabé in 1986, who went 528 minutes before conceding his first goal for the capital club.
Paris are also looking to maintain an exceptional run of scoring in their last 63 competitive matches. Not since 19 May 2018 and a scoreless draw with Caen. At the Parc des Princes, the capital club have scored at least once in their last 31 competitive matches.
Les Parisiens will also be looking to erase the memory of the last meeting between the two that saw Reims win the last league match of last season 3-1 (24/05/2019).
The keys to success...
Despite missing several options in attack, Paris Saint-Germain can count on serial goal scorer Neymar Jr, who has scored in the last two matches for Les Rouge et Bleu. In the last four matches against Reims, Paris have scored 14 goals, at an average of more than three per game...