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A little bit of history...

This will be the 68th competitive encounter between Paris Saint-Germain and Strasbourg. It's Les Parisiens who boast the better record with 36 victories, 18 draws and just 13 defeats.

Although the club from the capital is unbeaten at the Parc des Princes (no defeats in 34 matches played), their record in Alsace is rather different with 10 wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats in the 33 competitive matches played.

Since Strasbourg's return to the top flight in 2017, Les Rouge et Bleu have played three matches at the Stade de la Meinau, picking up one win (2-4 on 13/12/2017 in the Round of 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue), one draw (1-1 on 05/12/2018 in Ligue 1) and one defeat (2-1 on 02/12/2017 in Ligue 1).

Paris Saint-Germain are also on a seven match unbeaten run against Strasbourg (5 wins and 7 draws).

Paris Saint-Germain's largest victory in Alsace dates back to 22 August 1992 and a  4-0 victory in the league thanks to goals from Laurent Fournier, George Weah (a brace and his first goals in Paris Saint-Germain colours) and François Calderaro.

25 players have worn the shirt of both clubs: Albert Baning, Carlos Bianchi, François Brisson, José Cobos, Amara Diané, Franck Dja Djédjé, Youri Djorkaeff, Raymond Domenech, Pierre Ducrocq, Richard Dutruel, Vincent Fernandez, Kevin Gameiro, Xavier Gravelaine, Jean-Noël Huck, Danijel Ljuboja, Francis Llacer, Peguy Luyindula, Pascal Nouma, Jacki Novi, Godwin Okpara, Grégory Paisley, Francis Piasecki, Stéphane Pichot, Bruno Rodriguez and Toko.

Dominique Rocheteau is Paris Saint-Germain's top scorer against Strasbourg with 6 goals scored. He sits ahead of Christian (5 goals), Edinson Cavani and George Weah (4 goals), then Angel Di Maria, Paul Le Guen and Pedro Miguel Pauleta (3 goals).

One Paris striker has managed to score four against Strasbourg: The Brazilian, Christian during the 1999-2000 season (4-2 victory for Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes on 26/01/2000).

The stakes...

After the superb 3-2 victory over Bayern in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, the focus switches back to the league! Les Parisiens, who trail Lille in the league table after their 2-0 victory over Metz on Friday at the Stade Saint-Symphorien, have no room for error, but they remain on an incredible unbeaten run away from home in all competitions.

The club from the capital are travelling well, with 8 consecutive victories in competitive matches: at Marseille (0-2 on 07/02/2021 in Ligue 1), at Caen (0-1 on 10/02/2021 in the Round of 64 of the  Coupe de France), in Barcelona (1-4 on 16/02/2021 in the first leg of the Round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League), at Dijon (0-4 on 27/02/2021 in Ligue 1), at Bordeaux (0-1 on 03/03/2021 in Ligue 1), at Brest (0-3 on 06/03/2021 in the Round of 32 of the Coupe de France), at Lyon (2-4 on 21/03/2021 in Ligue 1), and in Munich (2-3 on 07/07/2021 in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League).

Paris Saint-Germain will also be looking to their solid defence, who have already kept 9 clean sheets away from home in Ligue 1 in the 15 matches played.

THe keys to the match...

98 goals for Paris Saint-Germain in competitive matches against Strasbourg, could they make it 100 goals this afternoon at La Meinau? 15 clubs have already reached this symbolic number: Lyon and Saint-Étienne (158 goals), Lens (146 goals), Marseille (145 goals), Nantes and Bordeaux (142 goals), Bastia (134 goals), Metz (133 goals), Lille and Sochaux (127 goals), Monaco (120 goals), Toulouse (119 goals), Nice (118 goals) and Rennes (113 goals) and Montpellier (108 goals).

Les Parisiens will also look to Kylian Mbappé, who has scored 32 goals in 2020-2021 and has already it into Les Rouge et Bleu's top 8 goalscorers. The France international, who has scored 14 goals in his last 11 matches for the club from the capital (including 11 away from home in 6 encounters!), isn't far off his personal record (39 goals in 2018-2019). Only three Paris strikers have done better in one season: Carlos Bianchi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani.

In Ligue 1, with 84 goals scored for the club from the capital, the world champion is only one goal away from Mustapha Dahleb's record (85 goal) and could make it into Les Rouge et Bleu's top three behind Edinson Cavani (138 goals) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (113 goals).

Angel Di Maria now boasts 100 assists for Paris Saint-Germain in competitive matches and is now just three assists away from the club record held by Safet Susic.