Everything about Paris-Lens!

a bit of history...

Paris Saint-Germain - Lens, a classic encounter in our championship! The two teams have already met 85 times in official matches, with the Rouge et Bleu getting the better of them (41 wins, 20 draws and 24 defeats).

At the Parc des Princes, the Parisians and Lensois have met 42 times in official matches, with a record of 28 wins, 6 draws and 8 defeats. The last time the club from the capital lost at home to RCL was on 5 November 2006 (a 1-3 win for the Sang et Or at the Parc des Princes in the league), at the end of a record run of five consecutive wins for the Lensois in Paris.

Watching a Paris Saint-Germain - Lens match is often a spectacle: with 259 goals scored in 85 matches, an average of more than 3 goals per game between the two teams. Only four times have the two clubs played out a 0-0 draw.

Paris' top 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).

2 players have scored a hat-trick against Lens: François M'Pelé at the Stade Bollaert on 28 February 1976 in the round of 16 of the French Cup (0-3) 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...

Paris Saint-Germain could be crowned French champions in matchday 34 of Ligue 1. The club from the capital, that has a 15-point lead with five games to go, could win the 10th title in its history on Saturday or Sunday depending on the weekend's results.

Paris are the only team unbeaten at home in Ligue 1 this season (15 wins and one draw). The Rouge et Bleu have remained unbeaten in the league five times at the Parc des Princes: in the 1985-1986, 1993-1994, 2014-2015, 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 seasons.

With 15 wins in 16 games at the Parc des Princes in Ligue 1, the Parisians are still in the running to beat their historic home record (17 wins and 2 draws in 1985-1986 and 2018-2019).

The club from the capital could also reach the 100-goal mark in 2021-2022, with 97 goals scored ahead of the match against Lens.

the keys to the match...

The Parisians love playing Lens, with the Sang et Or having conceded 149 goals against Paris Saint-Germain. Only 2 clubs have conceded more than the northerners: Saint-Étienne (167 goals) and Lyon (161 goals).

Kylian Mbappé has scored at least 1 goal in the last 6 official matches for the club from the capital at the Parc des Princes (Rennes, Real Madrid, Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux, Lorient and Marseille). It is already the second best streak in the club's history, the record being held by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who scored in 9 consecutive matches, during the 2013-2014 season. With 113 goals in Ligue 1, the world champion has also matched the Swede (113 goals), only Edinson Cavani has done better (138 goals).

Neymar Jr, for his part, has scored 98 goals in official matches for Paris, and equalled Mustapha Dahleb against Marseille. Five Paris Saint-Germain players have reached the 100-goal mark: Edinson Cavani (200 goals), Kylian Mbappé (165 goals), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (156 goals), Pedro Miguel Pauleta (109 goals) and Dominique Rocheteau (100 goals).