Everything on Lens-Paris!

a bit of history...

Lens - Paris Saint-Germain, the return of a great classic of our championship since last season. The two teams have already played each other 84 times in official matches, with the Parisians having won 41 times, drawn 19 times and lost 24 times.

At the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, the record is less good for the Rouge et Bleu: 9 wins, 13 draws and 15 defeats in 37 official matches.

Watching a Paris Saint-Germain - Lens match is often guaranteed to be a spectacle: with 257 goals scored in 84 matches, the average number of goals scored in a match between the two teams is more than three. Only four times have the two teams drawn 0-0. The top Parisian scorer against Lens is Mustapha Dahleb, with 11 goals. He is ahead of François M'Pelé (8 goals), Dominique Rocheteau (7 goals) and Safet Susic (5 goals).

Two strikers have scored a hat-trick against Lens: François M'Pelé at the Stade Bollaert on 28 February 1976 in the Coupe de France round of 16 (3-0) and Laurent Leroy at the Parc des Princes on 14 April 2000 (4-1).

36 players have played for both teams: Alphonse Areola, Serge Aurier, Milan Bisevac, Jules Bocandé, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Clément Chantôme, Charles-Edouard Coridon, Éric Cubilier, Stéphane Dalmat, Frédéric Déhu, Jean Deloffre, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre-Alain Frau, Bernard Hereson, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Bonaventure Kalou, Bernard Lama, Loïck Landre, Nicolas Laspalles, Ronan Le Crom, Jérôme Leroy, Danijel Ljuboja, Patrice Marquet, Jean-Eudes Maurice, François M'Pelé, William N'Jo-Lea, Pascal Nouma, Alex Nyarko, Stéphane Pédron, José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan, Thierry Rabat, Bruno Rodríguez, Daniel Xuereb, Christian Zajaczkowski and Bruno Zaremba.

what's at stake...

There are only two games left before the halfway point of the league! Paris Saint-Germain officially only need one point to be symbolically crowned Autumn Champions, the 13th time in the club's history after the 1985-1986, 1988-1989, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons.

the keys to the match... 

Parisian forwards love playing Lens, with 148 goals conceded by the Sang et Or against Paris Saint-Germain. Only 2 clubs have done worse than the side from the north: Saint-Etienne (164 goals) and Lyon (161 goals).

Kylian Mbappé has scored 98 league goals for Paris Saint-Germain. Only two Parisian strikers have reached the milestone of 100 goals in the league: Edinson Cavani (138 goals) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (113 goals).

Presnel Kimpembe could play his 200th game for Paris Saint-Germain and become the 10th player trained at the club to reach this total, after Jean-Marc Pilorget (435 matches), Eric Renaut (290 matches), Luis Fernandez (273 matches), Jean-Claude Lemoult (266 matches), Franck Tanasi (254 matches), Clément Chantôme (249 matches), Francis Llacer (248 matches), Adrien Rabiot (227 matches) and Mamadou Sakho (201 matches).