Important figures before the showdown
- Paris has won two of their last three matches against Barcelona in the Champions League (X1), as much as they have won in the first eight matches (F2T33).
- This will be the first showdown between the two teams at Princes Park since 2017 when Paris secured their biggest home win in a Champions League away match (4-0) and Barcelona also received their biggest loss of away from home in the championship on the same footing as their losses (0-4 against Liverpool 2019 and Bayern Munich 2013).
- Barcelona have won only once in their last nine away matches in the Champions League (T3X5), beating Manchester United 1-0 in 2019. He has scored only 3 goals in these 9 games and has failed to score in 6 of them.
- If Kylian Mbappe scores in this match, he will become the youngest player to reach 25 Champions League goals at the age of 22 and 80 days. The youngest player to score 25 goals was Lionel Messi when he achieved this feat at the age of 22 and 286 days in April 2010 against Arsenal.
- Kylian Mbappe has scored a treble against Barcelona, but no player has ever scored more than three goals against Barcelona in a single Edition of the Champions League.
- Lionel Messi finished in the Champions League on the losing side in 4 of the 75 matches during which he scored in the championship, but half of these defeats were against Paris Saint-Germain (1-4 in the first leg and 2-3 in 2014 at Princes Park).
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