Key numbers: Lens v. Paris
The history, the stakes and the keys to the game! Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Racing Club de Lens and Paris Saint-Germain at 20:45 CET this Sunday (Matchday 18 of Ligue 1) at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis.
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Two Paris Saint-Germain players have scored a hat trick against Lens: François M’Pelé in a 3-0 win in the last 16 of the Coupe de France at the Stade Bollaert on 28th February 1976 and Laurent Leroy in a 4-1 win in Ligue 1 at the Parc des Princes on 14th April 2000.
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Two of this season's 18 Ligue 1 teams have never conceded a goal from Kylian Mbappé on home turf: Lens and Lorient.
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Paris Saint-Germain and Lens have drawn 0-0 with each other on just four occasions in 88 competitive meetings.
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Paris are on a run of ten straight competitive fixtures without defeat, having registered seven wins and three draws since their 2-1 loss to AC Milan on 7th November 2023.
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Kylian Mbappé has scored ten goals in eight away league games so far this season.
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Paris's top scorer against Lens is Mustapha Dahleb, who, with 11 goals to his name, sits ahead of the aforementioned François M'Pelé (eight goals scored) as well as Dominique Rocheteau (seven goals scored) and Safet Sušić (five goals scored).
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Paris are unbeaten in their last 15 away league games (3-0 v. Marseille, 2-1 v. Brest, 2-0 v. Nice, 2-1 v. Angers, 3-1 v. Troyes, 2-1 v. Auxerre, 1-1 v. Strasbourg, 1-1 v. Toulouse, 4-1 v. Lyon, 0-0 v. Clermont, 3-1 v. Rennes, 3-2 v. Brest, 3-0 v. Reims, 2-0 v. Le Havre and 1-1 v. Lille). The club's record in this respect is a run of 19 away league games without defeat between 2015 and 2016.
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36 players have played for both clubs: Alphonse Areola, Serge Aurier, Milan Biševac, Jules Bocandé, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Clément Chantôme, Charles-Édouard Coridon, Éric Cubilier, Stéphane Dalmat, Frédéric Déhu, Jean Deloffre, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre-Alain Frau, Bernard Héréson, 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 Léa, Pascal Nouma, Alex Nyarko, Stéphane Pédron, José-Karl Pierre-Fanfan, Thierry Rabat, Bruno Rodriguez, Daniel Xuereb, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba.
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These two teams have faced each other 89 times in competitive fixtures, with the head-to-head record laying heavily in favour of Les Parisiens, who have notched up 43 wins, 21 draws and 25 defeats.
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With Lens having conceded 157 goals in games against the capital club, only two clubs have a worse record than Les Sang et Or in this respect – Saint-Étienne (167 goals conceded) and Lyon (166 goals conceded) – while Nantes have also let in exactly 157 goals against Paris.
Nenê v. Lens, 26/09/2010