All you need to know: Paris Saint-Germain - FC Nantes

A LITTLE HISTORY...

Parisians and Nantais are going to meet for the 105th time since 1970 (51 wins, 23 draws and 30 losses for the Rouge et Bleu). Only two clubs have faced the Parisians more: Bordeaux and Monaco (110 matches). The Canaries will join Lyon and Marseille (105).

Paris Saint-Germain have had the better of recent encounters winning 26 times and losing just three of the 31 matches since October 2004.

Nantes will play their 52nd competitive game at the Parc des Princes against the capital club. Only Bordeaux (55) have played there more - Nantes will draw level with Marseille (52).

Paris lost 6-0 to Nantes in a league game on 1 September 1971. It remains the club's largest defeat.

Paris Saint-Germain won 17 successive games against Nantes between 2007 and 2019, a club record.

With 51 defeats to the Rouge-et-Bleu, Nantes are the team Paris Saint-Germain have beaten most along with Saint-Étienne. So Christophe Galtier's team will set a new club record if they win.

28 joueurs have played for both teams: Jérôme Alonzo, Sylvain Armand, Claude Arribas, Jean-Hugues Ateba, Jean-Kévin Augustin, William Ayache, Michel Bibard, Lorik Cana, Bruno Carotti, Dominique Casagrande, Benoît Cauet, Éric Cubilier, Willy Grondin, Vahid Halilhodzic, Antoine Kombouaré, Mickaël Landreau, Nicolas Laspalles, Paul Le Guen, Yvon Le Roux, Patrice Loko, Claude Lowitz, Claude Makélélé, Granddi Ngoyi, Nicolas Ouédec, Fabrice Pancrate, Fabrice Poullain, Alioune Touré & Mario Yepes.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani are Paris Saint-Germain's leading scorers against Nantes with 9 goals each. They're ahead of  Kylian Mbappé (7 goals), Pedro Miguel Pauleta (6 goals) & Dominique Rocheteau (5 goals).

THE STAKES...

Paris Saint-Germain, the league leaders, have an eight-point lead over Marseille following their 3-0 win at the Vélodrome last weekend.

Paris are unbeaten in 34 league games (29 wins) at the Parc des Princes, a run that puts them in the top three of the club's history. The Rouge-et-Bleu's last defeat came against Lille on 3 April 2021 (0-1). The club record run is 41 unbeaten matches from 20 March 2016 (Monaco, 0-2) to 12 May 2018 (Rennes, 0-2) with the next-best 39 matches from 18 December 1992 (Marseille, 0-1) to 11 January 1995 (Nantes, 0-3).

The capital club have scored in the duo's last 28 last competitive games, last failing to find the net in a goalless draw in Nantes on 25 February 2006. It's an ongoing club record.

KEYS TO THE MATCH...

200 goals for Kylian Mbappé before the Nantes game. He could now become the club's all-time leading scorer.

With 136 Ligue 1 goals in the red-and-blue shirt, the capital club number 7 is just two goals short of the 138 scored by Edinson Cavani, the current club best.

Paris Saint-Germain have scored 153 goals against Nantes, the third-most they have scored against any opponent after Saint-Étienne (167 goals) and Lyon (162).

The club have scored a total of 2994 goals in the top flight, so the 3000-goal milestone is fast approaching…