Paris demeanour to pull on as Anderlecht find initial points
Three wins out of 3 have done Paris Saint-Germain a frontrunners in Group B, and another feat opposite RSC Anderlecht could take a French side into a final 16 with dual games to spare.
• Having won 4-0 in Brussels final time out, Paris have now scored 12 goals and conceded nothing in winning all 3 fixtures so far. The Ligue 1 organisation will secure a top-two finish if they win and Celtic FC destroy to kick second-placed FC Bayern München, or if Paris pull and Celtic lose.
• Anderlecht are still seeking their initial indicate and idea in Group B, and will be incompetent to finish in a tip dual if they remove again and Bayern equivocate better during Celtic. Should Anderlecht draw, they would still be out if Bayern win in Scotland.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ final tie in Brussels brought Anderlecht’s joint-biggest European home better and Paris’s joint-biggest divided victory. Zlatan Ibrahimović scored 4 times in Paris’s 5-0 victory, with Edinson Cavani removing a other.
• Ibrahimović also strike a Paris idea in a 1-1 draw during a Parc des Princes on 5 Nov 2013; Demy De Zeeuw had given Anderlecht a lead, a visitors finale with 10 organisation after Sacha Kljestan collected a second yellow label in a 82nd minute.
• The teams during a Parc des Princes on 5 Nov 2013 were:
Paris: Sirigu, Van der Wiel, Marquinhos (Thiago Silva 62), Alex, Maxwell, Motta, Matuidi, Verratti (Ménez 76), Lucas, Lavezzi (Pastore 75), Ibrahimović.
Anderlecht: Kaminski, Kljestan, Mbemba, N’Sakala, Praet (Acheampong 79), Deschacht, Milivojević, Kouyaté, De Zeuw (Nuytinck 90+1), Vanden Borre, Mitrović (Tielemans 87).
• That 2013 diversion in Belgium was a initial assembly between a teams for 21 years. They played out dual draws when confronting any other in a 1992/93 UEFA Cup third round, 0-0 in Paris and 1-1 in Brussels – that took Paris by on divided goals.
Match background
Paris
• Having won 5-0 during Celtic on matchday one, Paris were then 3-0 victors during home to Bayern in their initial home fixture.
• Paris have mislaid usually one of their final 44 European home games given crashing 4-2 to Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC in a 2006/07 UEFA Cup organisation theatre (W28 D15) – going down 3-1 to FC Barcelona in a 2014/15 quarter-finals.
• They picked adult 5 points during home in final season’s organisation theatre (W1 D2).
• Paris have mislaid usually one of their 9 matches opposite Belgian opposition, crashing 3-0 during KSV Waterschei in their 1982/83 European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final second leg (2-3 aggregate).
• Paris warranted their biggest-ever European win opposite Belgian opponents, thrashing KAA Gent 7-1 during home in a 2001 Intertoto Cup semi-final carrying drawn 0-0 away.
• Anderlecht aside, Paris have therefore won their other dual games during home to Belgian visitors.
• 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 Barcelona, a French outfit succumbed 6-1 in a divided leg to crawl out – with Neymar, now of Paris, providing dual Barça goals and an assist.
Anderlecht
• The Belgian champions mislaid their initial dual Group B matches 3-0, away to Bayern München on matchday one and afterwards against Celtic in Brussels in their second fixture.
• Anderlecht drew 1-1 during AS Saint-Étienne in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage, yet lost 3-2 during home to a French club.
• Overall their record opposite French teams is W7 D10 L6; divided it is W3 D6 L2.
• Anderlecht have not won an divided diversion in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given a 1-0 feat during Real Betis Balompié on 6 Dec 2005. Their divided record given afterwards reads D8 L5.
• In 2016/17, Anderlecht fell to FC Rostov in a UEFA Champions League third subordinate round. Moving into a UEFA Europa League, they went all a approach to a final eight – their initial European quarter-final given losing to FC Internazionale Milano in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup – eventually bowing out to Manchester United FC (1-1 home, 1-2 away aet).
• Anderlecht are appearing in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a 12th time in total. They competent automatically after alighting a 34th Belgian pretension final term.
Coach and actor links
• Paris’s Belgian general defender Thomas Meunier was innate in Sainte-Ode and played for third-division side R.E. Virton before fasten Club Brugge KV in 2011. Meunier done 149 joining appearances for a club, scoring 15 goals and winning a 2015 Belgian Cup – with a 2-1 final win opposite Anderlecht – and a joining a following deteriorate before signing for Paris.
• Anderlecht captain Sofiane Hanni was innate in Ivry-sur-Seine, about 6 kilometres from a centre of Paris. Dennis Appiah (Toulouse) and Adrien Trebel (Dreux) were also innate in France.
• Have played together:
Dennis Appiah Layvin Kurzawa (AS Monaco FC, 2011–13)
• Have played in France:
Uroš Spajić (Toulouse FC, 2013–16)
Dennis Appiah (AS Monaco FC, 2011–13; SM Caen, 2013–16)
Sofiane Hanni (FC Nantes, 2009–11)
Adrien Trebel (FC Nantes, 2011–14)
Robert Berić (Saint-Etienne 2015–17)
• International team-mates:
Olivier Deschacht, Sven Kums, Leander Dendoncker Thomas Meunier (Belgium)