The key numbers: Paris v. Brest
Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Paris Saint-Germain and Stade Brestois 29, which kicks off at 21:00 CET on Saturday (Matchday 4 of Ligue 1 McDonald’s) at the Parc des Princes.
1
Brest have earned just one win in 19 competitive fixtures at the Parc des Princes: a 2-1 league victory on 12th September 1981. Since then, Les Parisiens have remained unbeaten in 17 games against SB29, recording 12 wins and five draws in that time.
3
Bradley Barcola has scored at least once in each of his last three league games for Paris Saint-Germain. This is the sixth time that a Paris player has achieved such a feat, following in the footsteps of Nambatingue Toko (in 1981–1982), Safet Sušić (in 1985–1986), Edinson Cavani (in 2017–2018) and Neymar Jr (in 2018–2019 and in 2022–2023). The club record in this respect is jointly held by Cavani and Neymar Jr, who both scored at least once in five straight league matches.
6
By thrashing Montpellier 6-0 on 23rd August, Paris achieved their best-ever result in the first home game of a league season. In fact, Les Rouge et Bleu hadn’t scored six goals in their first league outing at the Parc since a 6-2 win over AC Avignonnais on 22nd August 1975.
8
Eight different players (Lee Kang-in, Ousmane Dembélé, Bradley Barcola, Randal Kolo Muani, Marco Asensio, Achraf Hakimi, Warren Zaïre-Emery and Vitinha) have scored in Paris Saint-Germain’s opening three league games of 2024–2025, thereby matching the record set in 2021–2022, when Hakimi, Mauro Icardi, Julian Draxler, Pablo Sarabia, Ander Herrera, Kylian Mbappé, Idrissa Gueye and Angel Di María were the goalscorers in Paris’s first three league matches.
9
With nine goals to his name, Kylian Mbappé is Paris’s top scorer against Brest, putting him ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimović (six goals scored), Dominique Rocheteau (four goals scored) and the aforementioned Safet Sušić (three goals scored).
13
Paris have scored a total of 13 goals in their first three league games of 2024–2025, making for their best tally at this stage of the season since 2022–2023, when they had netted 17 times by the end of Matchday 3. In fact, on just four occasions have Les Parisiens reached double figures in terms of goals scored in their first three Ligue 1 outings: 1985–1986 (ten goals scored), 2017–2018 (11 goals scored) and 2021–2022 (also ten goals scored).
24
24 players have plied their trade for both clubs: Claude Barrabé, Daniel Bernard, Jean-Pierre Bosser, Bernard Bureau, Gilles Cardinet, Joël Cloarec, Patrick Colleter, Franck Dja Djédjé, Bandiougou Fadiga, Louis Floch, David Ginola, Vincent Guérin, Lionel Justier, Ahmed Kantari, Bernard Lama, Paul Le Guen, Yvon Leroux, Claude Makélélé, Tripy Makonda, Bernard Mendy, Granddi Ngoyi, William N’Jo Léa, Bernard Pardo and Jocelyn Rico.
25
Paris are unbeaten in their last 25 league games against Brest, having registered 17 wins and eight draws against SB29 since losing 3-1 to them on 26th January 1985. This is the joint-longest unbeaten streak against a single opponent in Les Parisiens’ history, alongside their ongoing 25-game unbeaten run (including 18 wins and seven draws) against Angers SCO.
28
LeAcross both league and cup fixtures, Les Rouge et Bleu are on a 28-game unbeaten run against Brest since the aforementioned 3-1 defeat in 1985. This is the second-longest streak of its kind in Paris Saint-Germain’s history, behind only the team’s ongoing 29-game unbeaten run against Angers across all competitions, which could well be equalled on Saturday.
44
Paris and Brest have faced each other in a total of 44 competitive fixtures, with the head-to-head record sitting heavily in Les Rouge et Bleu’s favour: 27 wins, 13 draws and four losses.
Javier Pastore v Brest (1-0), 11/09/2011
