The key numbers: Paris v. Le Havre
Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Paris Saint-Germain and Le Havre AC, which kicks off at 17:00 CET today (Matchday 30 of Ligue 1) at the Parc des Princes.
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Just one Paris player has managed to score a brace against the Normandy-based outfit at the Parc des Princes: Mickaël Madar, in a 3-0 victory on 25th April 1999.
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The first-ever match that Paris Saint-Germain played at PSG Campus was a friendly against Le Havre, which Les Parisiens won 2-0, on 21st July 2023.
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Paris have lost just two of the 77 competitive fixtures that they have played against French teams since Luis Enrique joined the club: 3-2 to OGC Nice on 15th September 2023 and 3-1 to Toulouse FC on 12th May 2024, both in Ligue 1.
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On 13th September 1970, Paris travelled to the Stade de la Cavée Verte – Le Havre’s home ground at the time – where they drew 2-2 with the hosts in National (now Ligue 2) in what was just the third competitive fixture in Les Rouge et Bleu’s history.
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Guillaume Hoarau, Michel Marella and Raí are Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorers against Le HAC, with three goals each.
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Paris Saint-Germain are unbeaten in their last eight league matches against Le Havre, having recorded a 2-1 win in 1999–2000, two 1-0 wins in 2002–2003, a 3-1 victory and a 3-0 victory in 2008–2009, a 2-0 win and a 3-3 draw in 2023–2024 and a 4-1 triumph on the opening day of the current Ligue 1 season.
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Having racked up nine victories in their last nine Ligue 1 games, Paris have only been on a better streak than this once before: a 14-game winning run in the 2018–2019 campaign.
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This will be Le Havre’s 17th competitive fixture against Paris at the Parc des Princes, where they have come out on top on just one previous occasion – a 2-0 league win on 24th January 1998 – alongside their five draws and ten defeats away to Les Rouge et Bleu.
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20 players have plied their trade for both teams: Yannick Boli, Vikash Dhorasoo, Lassana Diarra, Didier Digard, Éric Junior Dina Ebimbe, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre Ducrocq, Xavier Gravelaine, Yannick Guillochon, Guillaume Hoarau, Ilyes Housni, Jean-Louis Leonetti, Jérôme Leroy, Modeste M’Bami, Patrice Marquet, Grégory Paisley, Cyrille Pouget, Christophe Revault, Bruno Roux, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba. In fact, Digard and Douchez, who are now Le Havre’s first-team head coach and goalkeeping coach respectively, both played for Le HAC before joining Paris, while Bodmer is currently the Norman side’s sporting director.
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Paris Saint-Germain haven’t lost any of their 28 league games so far this season, meaning that they have now surpassed their previous longest unbeaten streak in Ligue 1, which came in the 2015–2016 campaign and stood at 27 matches. Meanwhile, the record for the longest such run of any team in the history of Ligue 1 is held by Nantes, who went 32 matches without defeat in the 1994–1995 season.
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These two teams have faced each other in a total of 40 competitive fixtures, with 23 wins, 13 draws and just four defeats for Les Parisiens.
Mickaël Madar v Le Havre (3-0), 25/04/1999
