PSG vs FC Lorient Ligue 1 Match Preview

PSG vs FC Lorient Ligue 1 Match Preview

Paris are winless in their last two Ligue 1 games against Lorient (both away from home – D1 L1), after winning each of the previous ten.

Paris have won their last five home Ligue 1 games against Lorient, scoring 17 goals and conceding just two goals.

Paris have lost three of their last five Ligue 1 games (W2), as many as in their previous 36 (W27 D6). Paris have conceded at least three goals in two of their last five games in the top-flight, as many as in their previous 63.

Lorient have won three of their last seven Ligue 1 games (D2 L2), after being winless in their previous 15 (D5 L10). Since MD23, Lorient have earned 11 points in the top-flight, only one fewer than Paris (12).

Paris have won 13 of their 14 home Ligue 1 games this season (D1), the highest tally in Europe’s big five leagues. Paris are one of three teams unbeaten at home in the Europe’s big five leagues in 2021-22 (Liverpool: W11 D3 and Sevilla: W10 D4).

Lorient have won each of their last two away Ligue 1 games, after being winless in their previous 28. Lorient haven’t won three consecutive games away from home in the top-flight since November-December 2013 (3).

Since 2018-19, Paris have lost 29% of their Ligue 1 games when their Champions League campaign is over (5/17), compared to only 13% (15/115) when still in the competition.

Lionel Messi has failed to score in his last seven games in all competitions with Paris, his longest drought at club level since February-April 2008 with Barcelona (also 7). He has scored one goal every 716 minutes in Ligue 1 this season – this is worse than 12 of his teammates (Mbappé, Ramos, Neymar, Icardi, Draxler, Danilo, Herrera, Gueye, Di Maria, Hakimi, Kehrer and Verratti).

Kylian Mbappé has earned 22 points for Paris courtesy of his 15 goals and ten assists in Ligue 1 this season, seven more than any other player.

Ibrahima Koné has scored three of Lorient’s last five goals in Ligue 1. He has found the net every 74 minutes in the top-flight this season, the best rate for a player scoring more than one goal in Ligue 1 in 2021-22.