Stats and Facts: A look back at Les Rouge et Bleu's sensational start to the FIFA Club World Cup

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After Paris Saint-Germain beat Atlético de Madrid 4-0 to strike a heavy opening blow at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup yesterday, check out the standout stats and facts from a successful Sunday at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles.

ANOTHER COMPETITION, ANOTHER WIN

By scoring four goals without reply in their first game at the Club World Cup, Luis Enrique's men set their stall out early, with Fabián Ruiz's superb, 19th-minute opener followed by goals from Vitinha (45'+1), Senny Mayulu (87') and Lee Kang-in (90'+7). Thanks to this dominant victory, Paris Saint-Germain earned a third straight win without conceding across all competitions – having previously beaten Reims 3-0 and Inter Milan 5-0 – and thereby equalled the team's longest such streak under Enrique's management. This was also Les Parisiens' tenth win in an international tournament in 2025, which beats the club's previous highest number of victories in international competitions across a calendar year (nine in 1994).

MIDFIELDERS ON FIRE

Although Luis Enrique spoke about the heat being a factor in this match, Les Rouge et Bleu's midfielders were on pretty hot form themselves. As well as scoring his eighth goal of the season and being named as the Player of the Match yesterday, the aforementioned Vitinha achieved a pass completion rate of 98.3% (112/114), which is the highest such percentage for a Paris Saint-Germain midfielder with at least 100 passes attempted in a game since Leandro Paredes's rate of 99% (101/102) against Bordeaux in Ligue 1 in March 2022.

Meanwhile, thanks to his opener, Ruiz netted his sixth goal of 2024–2025 across all competitions for Paris, which is as many as he had managed in his first two campaigns in the French capital combined (three goals scored in both 2022–2023 and 2023–2024). The Spanish midfielder has also scored more goals from outside the penalty area this season (three) than any other Paris Saint-Germain player.

SENNY Mayulu AT IT AGAIN

Following his memorable goal in Munich on 31st May, our young midfielder got himself on the scoresheet once again yesterday, this time courtesy of Ibrahim Mbaye's assist. Mayulu has now racked up four goal involvements in his last five games (scoring three and assisting in one), and, at just 19 years and 29 days old, the Paris Saint-Germain academy graduate has also become the youngest European player ever to score at the Club World Cup, thereby dethroning the previous record holder, Nicolas Anelka, who scored at the 2000 edition of the tournament when he was 20 years and 297 days old.

So, with Les Rouge et Bleu having secured all three points as well as top spot in Group B shortly before Botafogo beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 yesterday, make sure to tune into the first-ever meeting between Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazilian side at 03:00 CET on Friday!