Bayern and Paris play off for Group B supremacy
Paris Saint-Germain reason a tip palm as they interpretation Group B with a outing to FC Bayern München. Both teams have already competent for a turn of 16 definition usually initial place is left to be settled, with a French organisation carrying a advantage.
• Paris have won all 5 games in this season’s competition, and a 3-0 better of Bayern on matchday two has given them a three-point pillow over a German club. Paris also lead on altogether idea disproportion so Bayern contingency win by a four-goal domain to finish top.
• Defeat in Paris on matchday dual stirred Bayern to partial association with manager Carlo Ancelotti a following day.
Previous meetings
• The teams have met in 7 prior matches – all in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre – and all though one of those contests were won by a home side.
• The many new encounters before this deteriorate came in a initial organisation theatre in 2000/01 – a debate that culminated in Bayern winning a foe for a fourth time. Home surrogate Laurent Leroy’s 90th-minute strike gave Paris a 1-0 feat during a Parc des Princes on 26 Sep 2000 before Bayern incited a tables in Munich, goals from Hasan Salihamidžić (3) – now a club’s sporting executive – and surrogate Paulo Sérgio (89) securing a 2-0 success.
• The line-ups in Munich were:
Bayern: Kahn, Sagnol, Andersson, Linke (Jeremies 29), Tarnat, Fink, Sforza, Scholl, Salihamidžić, Jancker (Elber 58), Santz Cruz (Paulo Sérgio 76).
Paris: Letizi, Mendy (Okocha 71), Distin, Rabésandratana, Déhu, Algerino, Luccin (Cissé 84), Christian, Dalmat, Robert, Anelka.
• In 1997/98 Bayern ran out 5-1 winners in a initial diversion in Germany, Giovane Elber and Carsten Jancker any scoring twice and Thomas Helmer removing a other notwithstanding Marco Simone’s consolation. Paris, however, were 3-1 victors behind in France, their goals entrance from Franck Gava (17), Florian Maurice (73) and Leroy again (75); Markus Babbel had leveled for Bayern.
• The French bar also came out on tip in 1994/95, George Weah and Daniel Bravo earning a 2-0 home win and Weah, again, claiming a usually idea in Germany – a usually divided feat possibly organisation has managed in this fixture.
Match background
Bayern
• This is a German club’s initial home assembly with French antithesis given a 6-1 better of LOSC Lille in a 2012/13 organisation stage, Arjen Robben scoring a fifth goal. That gave Bayern a record of W10 D2 L3 during home to Ligue 1 visitors.
• Bayern have won their final 3 games opposite French clubs in Munich, carrying not won in 4 (D2 L2) before that sequence.
• The Munich club, 3-0 victors during home to both RSC Anderlecht and Celtic FC this season, won all 16 of their European home matches between 17 Sep 2014 and 15 Feb this year, a foe record. The 2-1 detriment to Real Madrid CF in a quarter-finals was their initial retreat in Munich given a 4-0 better by a same opponents in their 2013/14 semi-final second leg.
• Under Carlo Ancelotti, Bayern came second in their organisation behind Club Atlético de Madrid in 2016/17 – the initial time they had unsuccessful to win their territory given 2009/10. They kick Arsenal FC 10-2 on total in a turn of 16, usually to lose 6-3 over dual legs to Madrid.
• Bayern have won all 11 organisation home games given a 3-2 retreat during a hands of Manchester City FC on matchday 6 in 2013/14.
• Bayern competent for a organisation theatre after winning their fifth true Bundesliga pretension in 2016/17. The German side have reached a knockout rounds for a tenth deteriorate in a row.
Paris
• The French bar are dominant on their final 3 trips to Germany (W2 D1), many recently a 4-0 feat during Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a 2013/14 turn of 16 initial leg (6-1 aggregate).
• Paris’ altogether record divided to German clubs is W3 D1 L3.
• Paris can turn usually a seventh organisation to win all 6 games in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage – and, carrying also managed it in 1994/95, could compare Real Madrid CF as a usually clubs to have finished it twice.
• The 7-1 better of Celtic on matchday five done it 24 goals in Group B for Paris, setting a new UEFA Champions League record with a diversion still to play.
• The Parisians have won 7 of their final 11 divided fixtures in a competition, winning 5-0 during Celtic and 4-0 during Anderlecht this season; they have mislaid 3 games in that run. Matchday one was their initial purify piece in 7 divided matches; they subsequently managed another during Anderlecht.
• Unai 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
• Emery gave Juan Bernat his veteran entrance during Valencia CF in 2011/12.
• Kingsley Coman assimilated a Paris academy aged 9 and pennyless into a initial organisation in 2013, relocating on to Juventus in summer 2014 carrying done only 4 comparison appearances.
• Have played together:
Thiago Alcántara Dani Alves (FC Barcelona, 2008–13)
James RodrÃguez Layvin Kurzawa (AS Monaco FC, 2013–14)
• Have played in Germany:
Kevin Trapp (1. FC Kaiserslautern, 2008–12; Eintracht Frankfurt, 2012–15)
Julian Draxler (FC Schalke 04, 2008–15; VfL Wolfsburg, 2015–17)
• Trapp’s record opposite Bayern in a Bundesliga was W0 D0 L6, with 16 goals conceded.
• Have played in France:
Franck Ribéry (FC Metz, 2004/05; Olympique de Marseille, 2005–07)
Corentin Tolisso (Olympique Lyonnais, 2013–17)
James RodrÃguez (AS Monaco FC, 2013/14)
• Have played for same inhabitant side:
Corentin Tolisso, Kingsley Coman Alphonse Areola, Presnel Kimpembe, Layvin Kurzawa, Adrien Rabiot (France)
Manuel Neuer, Niklas Süle, Mats Hummels, Jerome Boateng, Sebastien Rudy, Joshua Kimmich, Thomas Müller Kevin Trapp, Julian Draxler (Germany)
Rafinha Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, Dani Alves, Lucas, Neymar (Brazil)
• Neymar scored in a 2015 UEFA Champions League final as Barcelona kick Arturo Vidal’s Juventus 3-1.
• Neymar also got 3 goals for Barça in a 2014/15 semi-final opposite Bayern (3-0, 2-3).
• Robert Lewandowski bagged all 4 goals for Borussia Dortmund in a 2012/13 semi-final initial leg opposite Di MarÃa’s Real Madrid.
• Julian Draxler faced Bayern 10 times in joining and crater with FC Schalke 04 and VfL Wolfsburg (W1 D1 L8).
• Kylian Mbappé scored in France’s 4-0 FIFA World Cup subordinate win opposite Robben and a Netherlands on 31 August.