All you need to know: Lille - Paris!

A LITTLE HISTORY...

Paris Saint-Germain and Lille will meet for the 99th time in all competitions. The Parisians' record reads: 41 wins, 25 draws and 32 defeats. Five clubs have already reached a century of games against the Parisians: Bordeaux (110 matches), Monaco (108 matches), Lyon (104 matches), Nantes (103 matches) and Marseille (102 matches).

It's against Lille on 12 June 1971  that Paris Saint-Germain won their first official title, the National league (now Ligue 2), winning 4-2 at the Stade Jean Bouin.

Twenty-eight players have featured for both clubs: Jocelyn Angloma, Hatem Ben Arfa, Mathieu Bodmer, François Brisson, Bernard Bureau, Yohan Cabaye, Aliou Cissé, Lucas Digne, Oumar Dieng, Pierre Dréossi, Pierre-Alain Frau, Idrissa Gueye, Jonathan Ikoné, Mickaël Landreau, Bernard Lama, Christophe Landrin, Edvin Murati, Pascal Nouma, Bernard Pardo, Christian Perez, Stéphane Pichot, Jacky Planchard, Thierry Rabat, David Rozehnal, Younousse Sankharé, Renato Sanches, Amara Simba and Timothy Weah. N.B. Mike Maignan and Boubakary Soumaré, who were both at the Paris Saint-Germain youth academy, never played a competitive game for the first team.

Dominique Rocheteau is the Club's leading scorer against Lille with eight goals. He's ahead of Safet Susic (7), Edinson Cavani, Lucas, Kylian Mbappé (5), and Jean-Claude Bras, Neymar Jr and Pedro Miguel Pauleta (4).

Four of the top 5 quickest Ligue 1 goals Paris Saint-Germain have scored have come against Lille: Maxwell at the Parc des Princes (26 seconds, 25 April 2015), Zlatan Ibrahimovic in northern France (27 seconds, 2 September 2012), a Nordine Kourichi own-goal (45 seconds, 22 October 1983) and Safet Susic (48 seconds, 20 October 1990), the latter two goals came at the Parc.

THE STAKES...  

Paris Saint-Germain are league leaders and have won all three competitive games so far, scoring 14 goals and conceding two.  

Paris are unbeaten in 11 Ligue 1 games (8 wins, 3 draws), scoring 41 goals.

Away from home, the Club has scored 21 times in their last five league games: : Clermont (6-1), Angers (3-0), Strasbourg (3-3), Montpellier (4-0) & Clermont again (5-0) on the opening day of the season.

Since 2012, the Parisians have registered eight wins and just one defeat on their last 11 trips to Lille in all competitions. Last season's 5-1 win was the Club's record victory chez Les Dogues.

The Rouge et Bleu's only loss came on 14 April 2019, losing 5-1, their biggest Ligue 1 loss since 2011. It was the first time the Parisians had conceded five goals in the league since 2 December 2000 (Sedan 5-1), and the first time they had lost by four goals since 27 April 2010 (Grenoble 4-0). It's the last time the Rouge et Bleu have conceded five goals in a competitive match.

THE KEYS TO THE match...

Presnel Kimpembe is back on a pitch he loves: after his exceptional tackle on Burak Yilmaz despite being injured (0-0, 20/12/2020), the Parisian defender scored his only Ligue 1 goal at Lille in last season's 5-1 win on 6 February.  

Neymar Jr has scored at least once in his last four competitive matches with the Rouge et Bleu, netting six times in total against Metz, Nantes (2), Clermont and Montpellier (2).

Kylian Mbappé has scored seven times in his last four away matches with Paris Saint-Germain.

Marco Verratti could make his 250th league appearance for Paris Saint-Germain. Only four players have featured more times: Jean-Marc Pilorget (371 matches), Safet Susic (287 matches), Sylvain Armand (285 matches) and Mustapha Dahleb (268 matches).

Paris' goalscorers have netted 134 times against Lille, putting Les Dogues in the Club's top 10 of teams who they have scored most against behind Saint-Etienne (167 goals), Lyon (161 goals), Lens and Nantes (150 goals), Bordeaux (148 goals), Marseille (147 goals) and Metz (143 goals), and level with Bastia (134 goals).