Key numbers: Leipzig-Paris
Everything you need to know ahead of Saturday’s friendly against RB Leipzig at the RB Arena (6:30pm CEST).
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They’ve met only once previously in a friendly: Leipzig won 4-2 on home soil on 18 July 2014.
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Ibrahim Mbaye scored the first goal of the 2024-25 season in Wednesday’s 2-2 friendly draw with Sturm Graz. The young Parisian forward follows Hugo Ekitike (2023), Sergio Ramos (2022) and Mauro Icardi (2020 et 2021).
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Paris and Leipzig met in the UEFA Champions League in three successive seasons (2019-2022), a joint-club record along with encounters against Chelsea (seasons 2013-2014, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016).
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Six players have featured for both clubs: Jean-Kévin Augustin, El Chadaille Bitshiabu, Abdou Diallo, Nordi Mukiélé, Christopher Nkunku and Xavi Simons.
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RB Leipzig-Paris Act 6! The duo have met five times competitively: UEFA Champions League ½ final in Lisbon on 18 August 2020 when the Parisians won 3-0, in the 2020-21 group stage games (2-1 loss in Leipzig on 4 November 2020, 1-0 win in Paris on 24 November the same year) and in 2021-22 (3-2 win at the Parc des Princes on 19 October 2021, and a 2-2 draw on 3 November in Leipzig). So Paris’ record is three wins, a draw and a loss.
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Paris have played 15 German clubs since 1970: Augsburg, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Schalke 04 and Wolfsburg in competitive matches, Hertha Berlin, Werder Bremen, Cologne, Dynamo Dresden, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kaiserslautern and FC Nuremburg in friendlies.
