All you need to know: Manchester City-Paris!

A LITTLE HISTORY...

Paris Saint-Germain will meet Manchester City for the seventh time in European competition: 0-0 in Manchester in a UEFA Cup group stage game, 3 December 2008, a UEFA Champions League quarter-final (2-2 at the Parc des Princes, 06/04/2016, 0-1 in Manchester, 12/04/2016), last season's semi-final (1-2, 28/04/2021, 0-2 04/05/2021), and the first game this season at the Parc des Princes, 28 September, 2021 (2-0).

It's the club's 27th competitive meetings with an English team (8 matches vs. Chelsea, 4 matches vs. Arsenal, 4 matches vs. Liverpool, 6 matches vs. Manchester City, 4 matches vs. Manchester United). Paris Saint-Germain's records is: 8 wins, 8 draws, 10 defeats.

Six players have played for both teams: Nicolas Anelka, Ali Benarbia, Djamel Belmadi, Sylvain Distin, Alioune Touré & George Weah.

THE STAKES...

With eight points from four games, the Rouge-et-Bleu can qualify this evening by either winning in Manchester or by getting a draw and Club Brugge not beating Leipzig in the other game in the group. If Paris lose, they will still go through if Brugge also lose. 

Paris Saint-Germain are enjoying their 30th European adventure since making their debut in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1982/83. The capital club will play their 121st UEFA Champions League game in Manchester (71 wins, 25 draws, 35 defeats). The club will also be playing its 244th European game: 126 wins, 55 draws, 61 defeats so far.

It's Paris' 10th successive group stage campaign in the UEFA Champions League since 2012. Only five other clubs can boast that record: Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Juventus and City.

Paris Saint-Germain are - along with Bayern, Madrid and Barca - one of four teams to have always reached the knockout stages since 2012/13.

THE KEYS TO THE match...

The Rouge et Bleu are playing their 20th competitive fixture of the season with 14 wins and 3 draws so far.

Paris Saint-Germain have finished top of their group for the last four seasons and six times in the last nine.

The Parisians know how to score in the group stage having found the net in their last 36 games since losing 1-0 to Madrid on 3 November, 2015. Paris Saint-Germain will have both captain Marquinhos and Marco Verratti available tonight: they jointly hold the club record with 69 European appearances so far.

If he plays tonight, Keylor Navas will enter the club's all-time top 10 appearance list for goalkeepers behind Bernard Lama (318 matches), Joël Bats (285 matches), Dominique Baratelli (281 matches), Salvatore Sirigu (188 matches), Lionel Letizi (186 matches), Mickaël Landreau (151 matches), Ilija Pantelic (114 matches), Alphonse Areola (107 matches) and Jérôme Alonzo (101 matches). He'll join Camille Choquier on 93 matches for the Rouge-et-Bleu.
*This number includes the European Super Cup but not the Intertoto Cup