Key numbers: Nantes v. Paris
The history, the stakes and the keys to the game! Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between FC Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain, which kicks off at 21:00 on Saturday (Matchday 22 of Ligue 1) at the Stade de la Beaujoire.
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Paris Saint-Germain have suffered just three defeats at the hands of Nantes in the 33 games that the two teams have played against each other since October 2004, with Les Parisiens recording 28 wins and two draws otherwise.
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Kylian Mbappé has scored at least once in each of Paris’s last six away league games, netting two against Brest, three against Reims and one each against Le Havre, Lille, Lens and Strasbourg.
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With nine goals each, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Edinson Cavani are Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorers against Nantes, ahead of the aforementioned Mbappé (eight goals scored), Pauleta (six goals scored) and Dominique Rocheteau (five goals scored).
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Paris are unbeaten in their last 16 league games, having registered 13 wins and three draws in that time. If Les Parisiens avoid defeat away to Nantes, the then 17-game streak would be among the club’s five longest-ever unbeaten runs across a single season, behind the 27-game streaks in 1993–1994 and 2015–2016, the 26-game streak in 1985–1986 and the 20-game streak in 2018–2019, as well as drawing level with the 17-game streaks in 2003–2004 and 2014–2015.
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Across all competitions, Paris are indeed on a 17-game unbeaten run, having earned themselves 13 wins and four draws since a 2-1 defeat to AC Milan on 7th November 2023.
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Paris Saint-Germain are also unbeaten in their last 17 away league games specifically (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, 1-1 v. Lille, 2-0 v. Lens and 2-1 v. Strasbourg). The club’s record in this respect is 18 games without defeat from 2015 to 2016.
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30 players have played for both clubs: 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 Halilhodžić, Randal Kolo Muani, Antoine Kombouaré, Mickaël Landreau, Nicolas Laspalles, Paul Le Guen, Yvon Le Roux, Patrice Loko, Claude Lowitz, Claude Makélélé, Granddi N’Goyi, Nicolas Ouédec, Fabrice Pancrate, Fabrice Poullain, Alioune Touré and Mario Yepes. Rémy Descamps, meanwhile, never featured for Paris in a competitive fixture during his time at the club.
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Paris have scored at least once in each of their 30 games against Les Canaris since a 0-0 draw in Ligue 1 at La Beaujoire on 25th February 2006 – a record for the capital club.
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With a total of 53 defeats against Paris, Nantes have lost to Les Rouge et Bleu more times than any other team, including Saint-Étienne (51 defeats).
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If he plays on Saturday night, Gianluigi Donnarumma will be making his 100th appearance for Paris Saint-Germain.
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Danilo Pereira, meanwhile, will be making his 100th appearance in Ligue 1 if he features against Nantes.
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This will be the 107th meeting between Paris and Nantes since 1970, with the capital club boasting a record of 53 wins, 23 draws and 30 defeats in the fixture. Just two clubs have faced Les Parisiens more often – Monaco (111 matches) and Bordeaux (110 matches) – while Lyon have also faced Paris 107 times.
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Nantes have let in 159 goals against Les Rouge et Bleu, which is among the three highest totals of its kind, behind Saint-Étienne’s 167 goals conceded and Lyon’s 166 goals conceded whilst sitting on par with Lens’s 159 goals conceded.
Kylian Mbappé v. Nantes (3-0), 03/09/2022
