Key stats: Le Havre-Paris
History, what's at stake and keys to the match. Check out all the key facts and figures ahead of kick-off in the Ligue 1 Round 14 clash between Le Havre Athletic Club and Paris Saint-Germain at 13:00 on Sunday 3 December.
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Paris Saint-Germain played their first match of the 2023-24 season against Le Havre, winning their pre-season friendly 2-0 at Campus à Poissy on 21 July.
2
This is the second time that the Parisians have faced Le Havre at the Stade Océane. On 12 July 2020, Paris won 9-0 in a friendly in Normandy.
3
On 13 September 1970, Paris and Le Havre played out a 2-2 draw at the Stade de la Cavée Verte in a National (formerly Ligue 2) match. It was just the third official match after Paris Saint-Germain was founded.
3
Guillaume Hoarau, Michel Marella and Rai are Paris' top three scorers against Le Havre, each with three goals.
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Paris Saint-Germain have won all five of their league matches against Le Havre (2-1 in 1999-00, 1-0 and 1-0 in 2002-03, 3-1 and 3-0 in 2008-09).
6
Paris are on a run of six league wins, a first since the end of 2022 (six wins: Marseille 1-0, Ajaccio 3-0, Troyes 4-3, Lorient 2-1, Auxerre 5-0 and Strasbourg 2-1).
6
Paris Saint-Germain are on a run of six Ligue 1 matches with three or more goals scored (Rennes 3-1, Strasbourg 3-0, Brest 3-2, Montpellier 3-0, Reims 3-0, Monaco 5-2). This is the capital club's best sub run since the start of the 2018-19 season, when they went ten matches in row scoring three or more goals.
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This will be Les Rouge et Bleus' 11th league match played in the early 13:00 time slot on a Sunday and the eighth away from home, where their record stands at five wins and two defeats. In all ten matches played in this time slot, the record is eight wins and two defeats.
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Paris are on a run of 13 matches unbeaten away from home in the league (Marseille 3-0, Brest 2-1, Nice 2-0, Angers 2-1, Troyes 3-1, Auxerre 2-1, Strasbourg 1-1, Toulouse 1-1, Lyon 4-1, Clermont 0-0, Rennes 3-1, Brest 3-2, Reims 3-0). The club record is 18 away matches without defeat, achieved from 2015 to 2016.
14
14 goals after 13 league games for Kylian Mbappé, Ligue 1's top scorer. Only one Parisian player has done better: Edinson Cavani, with 15 goals after 13 games in 2017-18. The Paris No.7 has overtaken Carlos Bianchi (13 goals in the first 13 games of the 1977-78 season).
15
Paris Saint-Germain travel to Le Havre 15 years after the last official match between the two teams in Normandy, a Ligue 1 clash that saw Les Rouge et Bleu prevail (3-1, 15/11/2008). Guillaume Hoarau, a few months after swapping HAC for the capital club, scored twice for the Parisians.
20
20 players have worn the colours of both teams: Yannick Boli, Vikash Dhorasoo, Lassana Diarra, Didier Digard, Eric Junior Dina-Ebimbe, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre Ducrocq, Xavier Gravelaine, Yannick Guillochon, Guillaume Hoarau, Jean-Louis Leonetti, Jérôme Leroy, Modeste M'Bami, Patrice Marquet, Grégory Paisley, Cyrille Pouget, Christophe Revault, Bruno Roux, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba.
37
There have been 37 official matches between the two teams, with a record of 21 wins, 12 draws and just four defeats for the Parisians.
The goal
Marco Simone, 15th november 1998 (Le Havre-PSG 0-4)