Liverpool v Paris facts
Group C kicks off with a heavyweight competition as Liverpool acquire Paris Saint-Germain to Anfield with both sides looking to lay down an early marker.
• After both sides had damaged a prior record for organisation theatre goals in 2017/18 – Paris scoring 25 goals, Liverpool 23 – any found their campaigns halted by Real Madrid. While Paris bent out to a Spanish giants in a final 16 – a second unbroken year in that they had depressed during that jump – Liverpool done it all a approach to a final usually to remove 3-1 to Madrid in Kyiv, blank out on a sixth European title.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ usually fixtures to date came in a 1996/97 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals, when Paris seized control of a tie with a 3-0 first-leg win during a Parc des Princes – nonetheless they had to tarry a shock behind on Merseyside, going by notwithstanding a 2-0 defeat. The final finished in a 1-0 detriment to Barcelona.
Form guide
Liverpool
• Fourth in a Premier League in 2017/18, Liverpool are in a organisation theatre for a second deteriorate running, carrying featured once in a prior seven.
• Liverpool scored an normal of 3.15 goals per diversion in a 2017/18 UEFA Champions League.
• The five-time winners reached their eighth European Cup final in 2017/18, when they won 5 of their 7 UEFA Champions League home matches (qualifying included), sketch a others.
• Before being hold 2-2 by Sevilla on matchday one final season, Liverpool’s prior 6 European games during Anfield had all constructed a home win. They are dominant in their final 16 European home matches (W11 D5), given a 3-0 detriment to Real Madrid on 22 Oct 2014.
• The Reds have won their final dual home matches opposite French sides – many recently a 2-1 better of Bordeaux in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre – carrying mislaid dual of a prior three. Overall, their record during Anfield opposite Ligue 1 visitors is W11 D1 L2.
Paris
• Ligue 1 champions for a fifth time in 6 years in 2017/18, and seventh time overall, this is a French side’s seventh unbroken UEFA Champions League campaign.
• Semi-finalists in 1995, Paris have been knocked out in a turn of 16 in a final dual seasons – carrying been separated in a quarter-finals in a 4 prior campaigns.
• Paris have scored in all of their final 16 UEFA Champions League games.
• The Parisian bar have mislaid their final dual divided European games 3-1, during Real Madrid in a turn of 16 initial leg and Bayern München on matchday 6 final season.
• Paris have mislaid their final 3 European matches – equalling a misfortune run in their history. They final mislaid 3 in a quarrel between 2002 and 2004.
• The French side are but a win in their final 4 games opposite English antithesis (D3 L1), given a 2-1 success during Chelsea in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League turn of 16 second leg. That was their initial win in England, where their record is W1 D4 L4.
Links and trivia
• Thomas Tuchel succeeded Jürgen Klopp as Borussia Dortmund manager in summer 2015. Between 2009 and 2014, Tuchel was in assign of Mainz – where Klopp was manager from 2001 to 2008.
• Have played together
Joël Matip Thilo Kehrer (Schalke, 2015/16)
Fabinho Ãngel Di MarÃa (Real Madrid, 2012/13)
Fabinho Layvin Kurzawa (Monaco, 2013–15)
Fabinho Kylian Mbappé (Monaco, 2015–17)
Xherdan Shaqiri Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Stoke, 2017/18)
• Fabinho and Mbappé were French champions together during Monaco in 2016/17.
• Have played in France:
Dejan Lovren (Lyon, 2010–13)
Fabinho (Monaco, 2013–18)
Naby Keïta (Istres, 2013/14)
Sadio Mané (Metz, 2011–12)
Divock Origi (LOSC Lille, 2012–15)
• Have played in England:
Ãngel Di MarÃa (Manchester United, 2014/15)
Lassana Diarra (Chelsea 2005–07, Arsenal 2007/08, Portsmouth 2008/09)
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Stoke, 2017/18)
• International team-mates:
Alisson, Fabinho, Roberto Firmino Thiago Silva, Marquinhos, Neymar, Dani Alves (Brazil)
Divock Origi, Simon Mignolet Thomas Meunier (Belgium)
• Kylian Mbappé scored France’s final idea in a 4-2 better of Dejan Lovren’s Croatia in July’s FIFA World Cup final. Alphonse Areola and Presnel Kimpembe were new French substitutes.
• Thomas Meunier got Belgium’s initial idea in a 2-0 better of England in a World Cup third-place play-off match. Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jordan Henderson were in a losing side.
• Mbappé scored his initial general idea opposite Georginio Wijnaldum’s Netherlands in World Cup subordinate on 31 Aug 2017.