Paris prepared to pull on during Celtic’s expense

Paris Saint-Germain have been despotic so distant in Group B, and will demeanour to hang adult initial place when separated Celtic FC come to a Parc des Princes.

• Unai Emery’s organisation have limit points after 4 games and are by to a final 16. They will bind tip mark if they win and second-placed FC Bayern München do not collect adult 3 points during bottom side RSC Anderlecht – or if Paris pull and Bayern lose.

• Celtic suffered their biggest European home better opposite Paris on matchday one, going down 5-0 in Glasgow. The Scots can't finish in a tip dual though will sign third position if they win and Anderlecht do not, or if they pull and Anderlecht lose.

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

Paris
• The Parisians have won all 4 Group B games so far; during home they were 3-0 victors opposite Bayern on matchday dual before a 5-0 thrashing of Anderlecht final time out.

• Paris have scored 17 goals in winning their initial 4 matches, surrender none. No organisation have ever left by a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre though conceding.

• Paris are dominant in their 7 fixtures opposite Scottish clubs (W4 D3); during home their record is W2 D1.

• Paris have mislaid only one of their final 45 European home games given crashing 4-2 to Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC in a 2006/07 UEFA Cup organisation theatre (W29 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).

• 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, PSG succumbed 6-1 in a divided leg to crawl out with Neymar – now of Paris – providing dual goals and an assist.

Celtic
• Celtic are though a win in their final 6 visits to France (D2 L4). Their solitary success came on their initial trip, a 3-1 win during FC Nantes in a second turn initial leg of their winning 1966/67 European Cup campaign.

• Celtic’s altogether record opposite French clubs is W5 D2 L8.

• Prior to matchday one, a 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.

• The Hoops have won only one of their final 19 organisation theatre fixtures in a UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League (D7 L11), beating Anderlecht 3-0 in Belgium on matchday two. That finished a ten-game (D3 L7), four-year winless run in a UEFA Champions League organisation stage; their prior feat had been a 2-1 home success over AFC Ajaxon 22 Oct 2013.

• In 2016/17 Celtic came fourth in their section, holding 3 points from 6 matches. They suffered a record 7-0 detriment during FC Barcelona though drew 1-1 during both VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach and Manchester City FC.

• Celtic began a 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 posted a fifth true purify piece with a 5-0 win opposite FC Astana in a home initial leg of their play-off, advancing notwithstanding a 4-3 detriment in Kazakhstan that finished a four-game (W2 D2) dominant divided run in Europe.

• The feat during Linfield pennyless Celtic’s 11-match method though an divided win in Europe (D6 L5).

• Scottish champions for a sixth uninterrupted debate in 2016/17 – when they went by their domestic deteriorate unbeaten – Celtic are in a organisation theatre for a tenth time.

Coach and actor links
• Emery was in assign of FC Spartak Moskva when Celtic purebred 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 Edouard 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.

• Dedryck 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 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.