Stats & Facts: Lyon vs Paris Saint-Germain!
Find out all you need to know ahead of Wednesday Coupe de France semi-final betwen Olympique Lyonnais and Paris Saint-Germain at Groupama Stadium:
A little history...
Tonight’s clash will be the 99th match between Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon. Only two clubs have done better in Rouge et Bleu history: Bordeaux (104 matches) and Monaco (101 matches). The Parisians historically have the upper hand against OL with 41 wins, 27 draws and 30 losses.
Paris Saint-Germain will play their 237th French Cup match this evening, with a record of 167 wins, 28 draws and 41 losses with a 70 per cent win ratio (a defeat on penalties is statistically considered a draw).
This season, Les Parisiens have reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France for the 20th time in their history, in 50 appearances. They have successfully qualified for the final in 16 of the previous 17, for 2 eliminations, including the last 14 in a row. Les Rouge et Bleu last lost at this stage of the competition in 1986 and the elimination against Bordeaux (1-1, 1-2, over two legs).
26 players have played for both clubs: 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 has never played professionally at Paris-Saint-Germain, is not included in this list.
Paris Saint-Germain's top scorer against Lyon is Edinson Cavani, with nine goals scored. He is ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimovic (7 goals) and Mustapha Dahleb (6 goals).
The stakes...
The trip to Lyon should be another special night for Edinson Cavani, who could take part in his 300th official match for Paris Saint-Germain. The Uruguayan striker would become the ninth player to reach this symbolic milestone for Paris, just a few weeks after his current team-mates Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti.
Paris Saint-Germain have scored at least once in their last 49 away matches in a row in all competitions, since the scoreless draw away to Caen on 19 May 2018 in Ligue 1.
The keys to the match...
Paris have also scored in each of their last 44 Coupe de France matches since the 1-0 loss in the 2011 final against Lille.
Paris have scored 149 goals against Lyon in all competitions. Only OL’s archrivals Saint-Etienne have a worse record with 156 goals conceded.
After scoring in each of the first four rounds in this Coupe de France campaign, equalling the club record set by Pedro Miguel Pauleta in 2004, Pablo Sarabia could become the first Paris player to score in each of the first five rounds of he gets on the scoresheet tonight against Lyon.
