All you need to know: Marseille-Paris Saint-Germain
The stats, the stakes and the history behind Wednesday's Coupe de France Last 16 tie.
A LITTLE HISTORY
Le Classique, Act 104! Only four clubs have played a century of competitive games against Paris to date: Bordeaux (110 matches), Monaco (109 matches), Lyon (105 matches) and Nantes (104 matches).
Head-to-head, the capital club have 47 wins, 23 draws and 33 losses.
In the Coupe de France, this will be their 12th tie (with two-legged ties, their 14th game) with the Parisians only losing once, in 1991.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is Paris Saint-Germain's leading scorer against OM with 11. Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappé (7) and Pedro Miguel Pauleta (6) come next.
50 players – a Paris Saint-Germain record – have played for both teams: Fabrice Abriel, Jérôme Alonzo, Andre Luiz Moreira, Jocelyn Angloma, William Ayache, Djamel Belmadi, Hatem Ben Arfa, Daniel Bravo, Sarr Boubacar, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Lorik Cana, Benoit Cauet, Edouard Cissé, Patrick Colleter, Lassana Diarra, Stéphane Dalmat, Marcel De Falco, Frédéric Déhu, Jean-Pierre Destrumelle, Kaba Diawara, Jean Djorkaeff, Jean-Pierre Dogliani, Fabrice Fiorèse, Laurent Fournier, Bruno Germain, Xavier Gravelaine, Gabriel Heinze, Thierry Laurey, Jean-Louis Leonetti, Yvon Le Roux, Jérôme Leroy, Claude Lowitz, Peter Luccin, Peguy Luyindula, Claude Makelele, Florian Maurice, Modeste M’Bami, Fabrice Moreau, Michel N’Gom, Bruno NGotty, Pascal Nouma, Jacki Novi, Ilija Pantelic, Bernard Pardo, Cyril Pouget, Alain Roche, Jean-Pierre Tokoto, George Weah and Daniel Xuereb. N.B. Mattéo Guendouzi never appeared for the PSG first team.
With 28 goals, François M’Pelé is Paris Saint-Germain's all-time leading scorer in the Coupe de France. He's ahead of Kylian Mbappé (27), Edinson Cavani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Pedro Miguel Pauleta (16), Safet Susic (15), Mustapha Dahleb (14) and Dominique Rocheteau (13).
THE STAKES...
Paris have 14 Coupe de France final wins, a competition record, with Marseille next-best on 10.
Paris Saint-Germain will play their 250th Coupe de France tie. Their record so far is 178 wins, 30 draws, 41 defeats, a win percentage of more than 71%. N.B. A defeat on penalties is statistically considered as a draw.
It's the club's 38th Last 16 tie since its foundation in 1970. They have 28 wins and 9 defeats so far.
The capital club has won its last 25 Coupe de France away ties since losing in the 2012/13 quarter-finals to Evian TG (1-1 a.e.t., 1-4 pens., 17/04/2013).
KEYS TO THE match...
Paris are unbeaten on their last nine trips to Marseille (6 wins, 3 draws) since a 3-0 loss in Ligue 1 on 27 November 2011.
Marco Verratti will be back after suspension. He's played the most Classiques of anyone, winning 15, drawing four and losing just once so far.
Marquinhos has never lost to Marseille in 18 meetings, winning 15 times.