Montpellier Hérault SC - Paris Saint-Germain: all you need to know
Check out the stats and stakes ahead of Saturday's Ligue 1 encounter at the Stade de la Mosson.
A little history...
It's the 65th meeting between the pair. Paris have 26 wins to 17 defeats in compétitive games.
In Montpellier, the Rouge-et-Bleu have recorded just eight wins and 11 losses. Paris Saint-Germain are winless on their last three visits (2 defeats) having gone seven games without defeat prior to that (3 wins).
It was in Montpellier they scored five goals away from home in the top flight in a 5-2 win on 13 April, 1982, that featured five different scorers Sarr Boubacar, Dominique Rocheteau, Jean-Claude Lemoult, Ivica Surjak and Eric Renaut.
Twenty-two players have played for both clubs: Christian André, William Ayache, Claude Barrabé, Bruno Carotti, Aliou Cissé, Patrick Colleter, Xavier Gravelaine, Vincent Guérin, Jonathan Ikoné, Thierry Laurey, Jean-Claude Lemoult, Francis Llacer, Patrice Loko, Claude Lowitz, Nicolas Ouédec, Christian Perez, Patrice Py, Laurent Robert, Stéphane Sessegnon, Benjamin Stambouli, Siaka Tiené and Daniel Xuereb.
Rai and Pedro Miguel Pauleta have both scored a club-high four goals against Montpellier.
The stakes...
The Rouge-et-Bleu, the league leaders, are yet to draw a Ligue 1 game this season (12 wins, 3 defeats in 15 games), which is a club record given they dropped their first points of last season in Week 15 against Bordeaux (2-2, 02/12/2018). It's the first time since Guingamp registered four wins and 11 defeats in their first 15 matches of the 2014/15 season that this has happened in Ligue 1.
Away from home, Paris have not drawn since a trip to Strasbourg (1-1, 05/12/2018) a series of 18 games (11 wins, 7 defeats).
The game could see Thiago Silva make his 300th competitive appearance for the club.
The keys to the match...
Paris Saint-Germain's impressive front line will seek to continue the streak of 26 successive away games in Ligue 1 in which they have found the net since 19 May, 2018, and a goalless draw at Caen.
The front four of Kylian Mbappé, Neymar Jr, Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi, have scored 22 of the 23 goals the team have struck in their last nine competitive outings.
