Celtic flog off with Paris challenge
Paris Saint-Germain’s latest try during a UEFA Champions League kicks off with a outing to Celtic FC.
• While Paris are in a organisation theatre for a sixth true season, and have progressed to a knockout rounds in all a prior five, Celtic are seeking to strech a final 16 for a initial time given 2013 though know their home form has to improve.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ usually prior encounters came in a 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup second round, Paris using out gentle 4-0 winners over a dual legs – and going on to lift their solitary square of vital European silverware.
• The French side were 1-0 first-leg victors during a Parc des Princes interjection to a Youri Djorkaeff idea (76) before Patrice Loko struck twice in Glasgow (36, 42) with Pascal Nouma (68) removing a other.
Match background
Celtic
• Celtic started this deteriorate in a second subordinate round, violence Linfield FC (2-0 away, 4-0 home) and afterwards Rosenborg BK in a third subordinate turn (0-0 home, 1-0 away). They available a fifth unbroken purify piece with a 5-0 win opposite FC Astana in a home initial leg of a play-offs, advancing notwithstanding a 4-3 detriment in Kazakhstan.
• The defeat during Astana was usually Celtic’s second in their final 9 European games (W4 D3).
• Scottish champions for a sixth uninterrupted deteriorate in 2016/17 – when they went by their domestic debate dominant – Celtic are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time.
• Celtic have won usually dual of their final 6 European home matches (D2 L2).
• In 2016/17 a Glasgow bar finished fourth in their section, collecting 3 points from 6 games. They drew during home to Manchester City FC (1-1) and mislaid 2-0 to both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Barcelona.
• Celtic’s final feat in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, was a 2-1 home success opposite AFC Ajax on 22 Oct 2013. Their record given is D3 L6.
• Celtic have won usually one of their final 7 home games in a UEFA Champions League correct (D1 L5).
• The Scottish side’s final knowledge of French antithesis came in a form of Stade Rennais FC in a 2011/12 UEFA Europa League organisation stage. Celtic won 3-1 during home after a 1-1 pull in France.
• Celtic’s record during home to French clubs is W4 D0 L3; overall, it is W5 D2 L7.
Paris
• Quarter-finalists in 4 unbroken seasons between 2013 and 2016, Paris were on a wrong finish of a biggest quip in UEFA Champions League story in final term’s turn of 16. Having won 4-0 during home to FC Barcelona, a French team succumbed 6-1 in a divided leg to crawl out with Neymar, now of Paris, providing dual goals and an assist.
• Unai Emery’s charges won during PFC Ludogorets 1945 (3-1) and FC Basel 1893 (2-1) in final year’s organisation stage, also sketch during Arsenal FC (2-2).
• The Parisians have won 5 of their final 9 divided fixtures in a competition, losing three. They are but a purify piece in 6 divided matches.
• Paris are dominant in their 6 games opposite Scottish clubs, winning 3 and sketch a rest. Away from home their record is W1 D2.
Coach and actor links
• Emery was in assign of FC Spartak Moskva when Celtic available their initial UEFA Champions League divided feat with a 3-2 win in Moscow on 2 Oct 2012.
• Moussa Dembélé was a team-mate of Adrien Rabiot and Presnel Kimpembe in a Paris academy between 2010 and 2012. Odsonne Édouard also came by a PSG ranks between 2011 and 2016.
• Dembélé and Olivier Ntcham, and Paris span Rabiot and Kimpembe, are French Under-21 internationals.
• Derdryck Boyata and Thomas Meunier play together for Belgium.
• Ntcham had spells with Chennevières-sur-Marne, US Ormesson, VGA Saint-Maur, Paris FC and Le Havre AC in his local France before signing for Manchester City FC in 2015.
• Thiago Motta was sent off in Barcelona’s 1-0 first-leg detriment during Celtic in a 2003/04 UEFA Cup fourth round.
• Neymar has 4 goals in 4 UEFA Champions League appearances opposite Celtic. He strike a hat-trick in Barcelona’s 6-1 home win on 11 Dec 2013, and also struck in a 7-0 feat during Camp Nou on matchday one final season – Celtic’s heaviest European better – when a Brazilian also managed a record-equalling 4 assists.
• Neymar and Dani Alves were in a Barcelona side that won 1-0 during Celtic in a 2013/14 organisation stage, having lost 2-1 during Celtic Park in 2012/13.
Match facts
Celtic
• Scottish three-way winners final term, Celtic are dominant in 53 domestic matches – a Hoops’ final joining better entrance opposite Saint Johnstone FC in their penultimate tie of a 2015/16 campaign.*
• Brendan Rodgers became a third Celtic manager after Jock Stein and Martin O’Neill to win all 3 domestic trophies in one season.
• The second-leg detriment to Astana finished Celtic’s 42-game undefeated run in all competitions.
• Dembélé (hamstring) has not featured given a revisit of Linfield on 19 July. Boyata was ruled out for around 3 months after nutritious a knee damage in a accessible opposite SK Slavia Praha 15 days earlier. Erik Sviatchenko (knee), meanwhile, final played in a divided leg contra Rosenborg on 2 August.*
• Stuart Armstrong scored his initial idea for Scotland in a 3-0 win opposite Lithuania in a European Qualifiers for a FIFA World Cup on 1 September.
• Leigh Griffiths supposing assists for dual of a goals in Vilnius and was on a scoresheet opposite Malta 3 days after during Hampden Park, when he also delivered a dilemma for Christophe Berra’s opener in Scotland’s 2-0 victory.
• Six Celtic players started opposite Lithuania and Malta – Craig Gordon, Kieran Tierney, Scott Brown, Armstrong, James Forrest and Griffiths.
• All 8 of Scotland’s subordinate goals given their 3-0 retreat opposite England final Nov have possibly been scored or set adult by Celtic players.
• Mikael Lustig scored and assisted in Sweden’s 3-2 better by Bulgaria on 31 August. The full-back also laid on Emil Forsburg’s idea in their 4-0 success opposite Belarus 3 days later.
Paris
• Paris won a French Super Cup for a fifth uninterrupted year when they degraded AS Monaco FC 2-1 on 29 July.
• Emery’s group have won their opening 4 matches of a Ligue 1 season, scoring 14 goals and surrender two, as they try to wring behind a pretension from Monaco.*
• Neymar has purebred 3 goals in as many outings for Paris given his pierce from Barcelona.*
• A second-half substitute, Kylian Mbappé scored his initial comparison general idea as France ran out 4-0 victors opposite a Netherlands on 31 August.
• Meunier strike a hat-trick in Belgium’s 9-0 delight over Gibraltar and played a entirety of a 2-1 win in Greece 3 days later, a latter outcome confirming a Red Devils’ gift for subsequent summer’s World Cup.
• Angel Di MarÃa was replaced with a leg damage in a initial half of Argentina’s World Cup qualifier during home to Venezuela on 5 September.*
• Neymar is on a 24-strong shortlist to be named The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2017. The leader will be announced on 23 October.
*Subject to weekend updates