Olympique Lyonnais - Paris Saint-Germain: all you need to know

A little history...

This will be the 97th competitive meeting of Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon. Paris have 39 wins to 30 defeats.

Only Bordeaux (104 matches) and Monaco (101) have played the Parisians more times than Lyon, who will soon bring up their century of meetings with the capital club.

The Rouge-et-Bleu have struggled in Lyon with ten wins to 21 defeats. Since their 1-0 win on 12 May, 2013, that clinched the league title, they have won just once and lost four times in six visits.

There are 26 players who have featured for both teams: Hatem Ben Arfa, Milan Bisevac, Mathieu Bodmer, Luc Borrelli, François Brisson, Jéremy Clement, Grégory Coupet, James Debbah, Vikash Dhorasoo, Jean Djorkaeff, Raymond Domenech, Fabrice Fiorèse, Pierre-Alain Frau, Laurent Fournier, Franck Gava, Ludovic Giuly, Pascal Havet, David Hellebuyck, Christophe Jallet, Gérard Lanthier, Patrice Loko, Peguy Luyindula, Florian Maurice, Bruno Ngotty, Jean-Luc Sassus and Daniel Xuereb. Moussa Dembélé, who never played for the Paris Saint-Germain first team, is not included.

Edinson Cavani's eight goals are the most of any Paris Saint-Germain player against Lyon. He's ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic (7) and Mustapha Dahleb (6).

The stakes...

The Parisians will want to extend their unprecedented run of scoring at least once in their last 62 competitive outings since last drawing a blank on 19 May, 2018, against Caen (0-0).

The capital club are on a run of four successive clean sheets since their 2-1 loss to Rennes on 18 August. They kept a clean sheet at Metz in their last league away match, but had conceded on each of their previous six trips, losing five times.

The keys to the match...

If Paris Saint-Germain can maintain their defensive strength, then the forwards should enjoy themselves: with 144 goals conceded against the Parisians, Lyon are the third-most generous club behind Lens and Saint-Étienne (146 goals conceded).