The key numbers: Paris v. Lens
Check out the key numbers ahead of the game between Paris Saint-Germain and RC Lens, which kicks off at 17:00 CET today (Matchday 10 of Ligue 1) at the Parc des Princes.
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Two players have scored a hat trick for Paris Saint-Germain against Lens: François M’Pelé (in a 3-0 win in the last 16 of the Coupe de France at the Stade Bollaert on 28th February 1976) and Laurent Leroy (in a 4-1 win in Division 1 at the Parc des Princes on 14th April 2000).
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Paris and Lens have drawn 0-0 with each other on just four occasions across their 90 competitive meetings.
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With four wins from their four games at the Parc des Princes so far this season, Les Parisiens are the only side in Ligue 1 not to have dropped a single point on home turf since the start of the campaign.
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Bradley Barcola scored five goals in those opening four league matches at the Parc des Princes, thereby setting a new capital-club record in this respect.
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Barcola is also Ligue 1’s current top scorer, having notched up eight goals in nine games. Only two Paris players have done better than this in the first nine games of a league season: Zlatan Ibrahimović (2012–2013) and Edinson Cavani (2016–2017), who both racked up nine goals in as many games.
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LWith 11 goals to his name, Mustapha Dahleb is Paris Saint-Germain’s top scorer against RC Lens. This puts him ahead of the aforementioned M’Pelé (eight goals scored), Dominique Rocheteau (seven goals scored) and Safet Sušić (five goals scored).
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Les Rouge et Bleu bagged 16 goals in their first four league outings of 2024–2025 at the Parc des Princes, which beats their previous record of 14 goals in their first four league games of the 2018–2019 season.
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Paris have picked up 23 points from their nine Ligue 1 games so far this season, which is the third-highest tally that they have ever achieved at this time of the year, having had 27 points at this stage in 2018–2019 and 25 points at this stage in both 2017–2018 and 2022–2023.
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36 players have plied their trade for both teams: Alphonse Areola, Serge Aurier, Milan Biševac, Jules Bocandé, François Brisson, Zoumana Camara, Clément Chantôme, Charles-Edouard Coridon, Éric Cubilier, Stéphane Dalmat, Frédéric Déhu, Jean Deloffre, Nicolas Douchez, Pierre-Alain Frau, Bernard Héréson, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Bonaventure Kalou, Bernard Lama, Loïck Landre, Nicolas Laspalles, Ronan Le Crom, Jérôme Leroy, Danijel Ljuboja, Patrice Marquet, Jean-Eudes Maurice, François M’Pelé, William N’Jo-Lea, Pascal Nouma, Alex Nyarko, Stéphane Pédron, José Pierre-Fanfan, Thierry Rabat, Bruno Rodriguez, Daniel Xuereb, Christian Zajaczkowski and Pascal Zaremba.
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Across the 90 competitive meetings between Paris and Lens over the years, Les Parisiens very much have the upper hand with 44 wins, 21 draws and 25 losses.
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Lens have conceded a total of 159 goals against the capital club, with just four teams holding a worse defensive record than the northern outfit against Paris: Lyon (172 goals conceded), Saint-Étienne (167 goals conceded), Marseille (161 goals conceded) and Nantes (also 161 goals conceded).
Rai v Lens (2-0), 25/10/1997
