PSG vs Manchester United UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
The only previous European encounter between Paris SG and Manchester United was in the last 16 stage in the 2018/19 season when the Red Devils reversed a 2-0 first leg deficit to go through on away goals with a 3-1 win in Paris via a 90th minute Marcus Rashford penalty.
Paris SG have only lost seven of their 53 home UEFA Champions League matches, with no side winning more than once against them.
They've won their four home matches in the competition since losing 3-1 to Man Utd in March 2019. Manchester United haven't faced a French side in the UEFA Champions League group stage since 2005/06, failing to win either game against Lille (D1 L1).
The Red Devils have only won one of their six away group stage games in France (03 L2), a 2-1 win at Bordeaux in March 2000.
Paris SG have lost none of their 24 home UEFA Champions League group stage matches since the start of the 2012/13 season (W19 D5). Their last home defeat at this stage was in December 2004 against CSKA Moscow (1-3).
Manchester United have lost their opening match in just two of their 22 UEFA Champions League campaigns (W13 D7), against Juventus in 1996/97 and PSV in 2015/16; current manager Ole Gunnar Solskjcer made his Champions League debut in the Juventus defeat.
Manchester United have lost four of their last five UEFA Champions League matches (W1), including each of their last two. The Red Devils have only lost three consecutive European Cup/Champions League games once previously, losing three in a row between December 2004 and March 2005.
Kylian Mbappe has scored 19 UEFA Champions League goals, four of which have been against English teams. Should he score in this match, Mbappe would be the youngest player to reach 20 goals in the competition (21 y 305d), breaking Lionel Messi's record from 2010 (22y 267d).
New Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani has scored more UEFA Champions League goals for Paris SG than any other player (30).
Cavani has scored on his debut for his previous two teams (Napoli and PSG) with only Zlatan lbrahimovic (3), Javier Saviola (3) and Fernando Morientes (4) scoring on their debuts for three or more different teams.
Paris SG winger Angel Di Maria assisted more goals than any player in last season's UEFA Champions League (6) -the Argentine had only assisted seven goals in his previous four campaigns for Paris in 30 appearances.
Only Lionel Messi (45) had more carries with a take-on in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League than PSG's Neymar (36), with the Brazilian progressing further with the ball in total than any other player in last season's competition (1,279 metres).
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