Monaco vs PSG Ligue 1 Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Monaco have won only two of their last 16 Ligue 1 games against Paris (D8 L6), after winning three of the previous four (D1). Monaco are winless in their last seven games against Paris in the top-flight (D2 L5), while they have never gone 8+ consecutive league games without a win against them.
Monaco have lost four of their last five home games against Paris in Ligue 1 (W1), conceding 14 goals (2.8 per game on average) – this is one more defeat than they had in their first 39 such meetings in the competition (W23 D13 L3).
Monaco have won their last two Ligue 1 games (4-0 v Bordeaux and 2-1 v Nice), after winning only one of their previous five (D1 L3).
Paris have won their last five Ligue 1 games by a margin of 3+ goals – the first time they have ever achieved such a run. Only Nantes have ever won six consecutive games in Ligue 1 by at least three goals, doing so between November and December 1978.
Monaco are unbeaten in their last eight home Ligue 1 games (W5 D3), their best run since December 2017-August 2018 (13). Only Lyon are currently on a longer run in the competition (9).
Paris have won each of their last four away Ligue 1 games without conceding a goal, and could win five in a row on the road without conceding for the first time.
This game will feature two of the four teams with the most 10+ pass sequences in the opposition half (open play) in Ligue 1 this season – Paris have the most with 208, while Monaco rank fourth with 141 (Rennes 184, Nice 167).
Monaco’s Wissam Ben Yedder has failed to score with his last two shots on target in Ligue 1, while he’s never previously had three consecutive shots on target without scoring in the competition for the club (44 shots on target, 24 goals). He has scored 24 league goals since the beginning of last season, while only Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema (25) have scored more among French players in the Top 5 European Leagues.
Kylian Mbappé has scored nine goals as a substitute in Ligue 1 (33 sub appearances), mare than any other current top-flight player. The Paris striker has been directly involved in 11 goals in Ligue 1 this season (7 goals, 4 assists), at least three more than any other player.
Neymar and Angel Di Maria (49 goals each) are only two goals away from Raï (51) as Paris’ tenth-highest goalscorer in Ligue 1. If Neymar scores, he will become the third-quickest player to reach the 50 goals in Ligue 1 over the last 70 seasons (57 games), after Gunnar Andersson (53) and Josip Skoblar (54).
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