Anderlecht need to urge opposite ideal Paris
RSC Anderlecht will aim to equivocate another complicated home better as Group B’s early pacesetters Paris Saint-Germain come to Belgium looking for their third win in a section.
• While Unai Emery’s Paris are 3 points transparent in a standings carrying won both their games so far, Anderlecht are still looking for their initial indicate and goal.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ final tie in Brussels brought Anderlecht’s corner biggest European home better and Paris’ corner biggest divided victory. Zlatan Ibrahimović scored 4 times in Paris’ 5-0 victory, with Edinson Cavani removing a other.
• The teams during a Constant Vanden Stock on 23 Oct 2013 were:
Anderlecht: Kaminski, Gillet, Mbemba, Nuytinck, N’Sakala, Praet (Milivojević 72), Kouyaté, Kljestan, Suárez (Acheampong 46), Tielemans, Mitrović (Cyriac 72).
Paris: Sirigu, Van der Wiel, Marquinhos, Alex (Camara 56), Maxwell, Motta, Matuidi (Rabiot 64), Verratti, Lavezzi (Lucas 71), Cavani, Ibrahimović.
• Ibrahimović also got 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.
• The 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, a 0-0 stand-off in Paris and 1-1 outcome in Brussels holding Paris by on divided goals.
Match background
Anderlecht
• The Belgian champions have mislaid any of their Group B matches 3-0, away to FC Bayern München on matchday one and afterwards against Celtic FC in Brussels final time out.
• Anderlecht have won usually one of their final 8 home games in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, nonetheless that 2-0 success opposite Galatasaray AŞ in Nov 2014, their final tie in a foe in Brussels before a Celtic match, did finish a six-match home losing run.
• The Celtic better was Anderlecht’s second in their final 8 home matches in European foe (W5 D1), a Brussels side also going down 3-2 opposite AS Saint-Étienne on matchday 6 of final season’s UEFA Europa League.
• Anderlecht also drew 1-1 during St-Étienne final season. Overall their record opposite French clubs is W7 D10 L5; during home it is W4 D4 L3.
• The Belgian bar are but a win in their final 3 fixtures during home to Ligue 1 visitors (D1 L2), given a 2-1 UEFA Cup better of FC Girondins de Bordeaux in Feb 2008.
• In 2016/17, Anderlecht crashed out 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 8 – 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.
Paris
• Paris have mislaid usually one of their 8 games opposite Belgian opponents, going down 3-0 during KSV Waterschei in a 1982/83 European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-final second leg (2-3 aggregate).
• The 2013 feat during Anderlecht is Paris’ usually divided success opposite a Belgian bar (D2 L1).
• Paris warranted their biggest ever European win opposite Belgian opponents, defeating KAA Gent 7-1 during home in a 2001 Intertoto Cup semi-final after a 0-0 pull away.
• Having won 5-0 during Celtic on matchday one, Paris were 3-0 victors during home to Bayern in their final outing.
• The Parisians have won 6 of their final 10 divided fixtures in a competition, losing three. Matchday one was their initial purify piece in 7 divided matches.
• Emery’s charges won during PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (3-1) and FC Basel 1893 (2-1) in final year’s organisation stage, also sketch during Arsenal FC (2-2).
• 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 outfit succumbed 6-1 in a divided leg to crawl out – with Neymar, now of Paris, providing dual Barça goals and an assist.
Coach and actor links
• Paris’ Belgian general defender Thomas Meunier was innate in Sainte-Ode and played for third multiplication 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 – adding a joining pretension a following deteriorate before relocating to Paris.
• Anderlecht captain Sofiane Hanni was innate in Ivry-sur-Seine, about 6km 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, 2010–13)
• 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)
Isaac Kiese Thelin (FC Girondins de Bordeaux, 2015–17)
Robert Berić (Saint-Etienne 2015–17)
• International team-mates:
Leander Dendoncker Thomas Meunier (Belgium)