The key numbers: Paris v. ASSE

Match previews

Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Paris Saint-Germain and AS Saint-Étienne, which kicks off at 20:45 CET tonight (Matchday 17 of Ligue 1) at the Parc des Princes.

1
Paris Saint-Germain have lost just one of their last 45 Ligue 1 games – a 3-1 defeat at home to Toulouse on 12th May 2024 – whilst recording 32 wins and 12 draws otherwise. In fact, including that defeat and a 3-2 loss at home to Nice on 15th September 2023, Paris have been beaten in just two of their 59 competitive fixtures against French clubs since Luis Enrique took over as first-team head coach.
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2
Saint-Étienne have only won two of their 45 competitive fixtures against Les Parisiens at the Parc des Princes since 1974, losing 32 and drawing the remaining 11.
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5
Les Rouge et Bleu are on a five-game winning streak when it comes to their first competitive match of the year at the Parc des Princes, with their last loss in this fixture coming in the form of a 2-1 defeat to Guingamp in the Coupe de la Ligue on 9th January 2019. In fact, Paris’s record in their opening home game of each year since 1975 stands at 34 wins, 11 draws and just five defeats, while in Ligue 1 specifically, Les Parisiens haven’t been beaten in their first outing of the year on home turf since losing 2-1 to Monaco on 9th January 2010, with ten wins and four draws since then.
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14
With 14 goals to his name against Saint-Étienne, Zlatan Ibrahimović is Paris’s top scorer against Les Verts, putting him ahead of Edinson Cavani (12 goals scored) and Mustapha Dahleb (11 goals scored).
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16
Paris haven’t lost any of their 16 league matches so far this season, thereby equalling their performance at the start of the 2022–2023 campaign. This series of results is also among the club’s five longest unbeaten streaks at the beginning of a season, behind the 27-game run in 2015–2016, the 26-game run in 1985–1986, the 20-game run in 2018–2019 and the 17-game run in 2014–2015.
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25
Paris are unbeaten in the 25 competitive fixtures that they have played against Les Verts since being knocked out 5-3 on penalties by them after a 0-0 draw in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de la Ligue on 27th November 2012. Les Parisiens’ longest-ever unbeaten streak against a single side is their 30-game run against Angers, followed closely by their 29-game run against Brest.
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35
35 players have plied their trade for both clubs: Alex Dias, Aloísio Chulapa, Jérôme Alonzo, Adil Aouchiche, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, Dominique Bathenay, Mathieu Bodmer, Yohan Cabaye, Zoumana Camara, Dominique Casagrande, Jérémy Clément, Grégory Coupet, Mevlüt Erdinç, Laurent Fournier, David Hellebuyck, Robert Jacques, Gérard Janvion, Christophe Landrin, Jean-Michel Larqué, Thierry Laurey, Francis Llacer, Blaise Matuidi, Roland Mitoraj, Bernard Pardo, Stéphane Pédron, Lionel Potillon, Cyril Pouget, Philippe Redon, Dominique Rocheteau, Daniel Sanchez, Liazid Sandjak, Jean-Luc Sassus, Jean-Philippe Séchet, Siaka Tiéné and Jean-Luc Vasseur.
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51
With 51 defeats for Saint-Étienne against the capital club, only one team has a worse record than Les Verts in this respect: Nantes, with 54 losses at the hands of Les Rouge et Bleu.
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91
Paris Saint-Germain and Saint-Étienne have faced each other in a total of 91 competitive fixtures, with the head-to-head record sitting firmly in Paris’s favour: 51 wins, 27 draws and 13 losses.
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100
If he plays against ASSE, Achraf Hakimi will be making his 100th Ligue 1 appearance.
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109
With 109 goals conceded in their 45 competitive fixtures at the Parc des Princes, Saint-Étienne have the worst defensive record of any team at Paris’s home ground and are the only side to have let in more than 100 goals there.
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167
Across all of their meetings with Paris, Saint-Étienne have shipped a total of 167 goals, making them the second most generous team in their encounters with Les Parisiens, behind only Lyon (175 goals conceded).
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500
If Paris win against Saint-Etienne, Nasser Al-Khelaifi would become the club’s first President to reach the 500-win milestone in official competitions.
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Jérémy Clément v Saint-Etienne (1-1), 10/05/2008

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