UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE💙: Paris Saint-Germain vs Real Madrid: UEFA Champions League background, form guide, previous meetings

 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE💙:

Paris Saint-Germain vs Real Madrid: UEFA Champions League background, form guide, previous meetings

Paris Saint-Germain face a high-stakes tie against Real Madrid as the teams meet in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 for the second time.

 While Madrid have lost two of their three two-legged knockout ties with Paris, their 2017/18 success made their overall knockout record against French clubs W4 L4..

Previous meetings

✅Thomas Tuchel's Paris got the better of a Real Madrid side coached by Zinédine Zidane in the 2019/20 group stage, picking up four points from their two games. Goals from former Madrid midfielder Ángel Di María (14, 33) and Thomas Meunier (90+1) secured a 3-0 home win at the Parc des Princes on Matchday 1 before Kylian Mbappé (81) and Pablo Sarabia (83) rescued a point for Paris at the Santiago Bernabéu on Matchday 5 after Karim Benzema had scored twice for the Spanish side (17, 79).

✅Four of the teams' previous ten matches have ended in a Real Madrid win – including three in a row before that 2019 loss in France – while Paris have three victories. Paris have, however, outscored their opponents, hitting 14 goals to Madrid's 13

✅The French side produced a memorable comeback in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, turning round a 3-1 loss in Spain with a 4-1 home victory. Three of the four goals at the Parc des Princes came from the 80th minute onwards; David Ginola (81) and Valdo (87) made it 3-0 to Paris on the night and, though Iván Zamorano levelled for Madrid on aggregate in added time, there was still time for Antoine Kombouaré to win the tie for Paris.

✅Paris's win on 18 September 2019 is their only success in their last seven games against Madrid (D3 L3).

Paris

🔹Paris picked up 11 points in this season's group stage, nine coming from their home matches where they beat Manchester City (2-0), Leipzig (3-2) and Club Brugge (4-1). They drew in Bruges (1-1) and Leipzig (2-2), losing 2-1 in Manchester on Matchday 5 to be confirmed in second place.

🔹Runners-up to Bayern München in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League final, losing 1-0 in Lisbon, Paris again reached the latter stages of last season's competition

🔹Paris have lost only six of their last 64 European home games (W41 D17), although four of those have come in their last 14 matches at the Parc des Princes including the two before they beat City on Matchday 2.

🔹This is the French side's tenth successive UEFA Champions League campaign and 14th in total, two behind Lyon's national record.

🔹Mbappé's opening goal on Matchday 6 was Paris's 250th in the UEFA Champions League, group stage to final.

Real Madrid 

🔹Madrid won five of their six Group D games, the exception a stunning 2-1 defeat at home to debutants Sheriff on Matchday 2, as they finished first in their section for the third time in four seasons. Away from home they kept clean sheets in winning at Inter (1-0), Shakhtar Donetsk (5-0) and Sheriff (3-0).

🔹Under Zidane, Madrid also finished first in their section in 2020/21, picking up six of their ten points against Inter and sealing progress as group winners with a 2-0 home defeat of Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 6.

🔹Madrid then won both legs against Atalanta in the round of 16 (1-0 a, 3-1 h) before eliminating Liverpool in the quarter-finals (3-1 h, 0-0 a). They lost to eventual champions Chelsea in the semi-finals (1-1 h, 0-2 a)

🔹Under Zidane, Madrid also finished first in their section in 2020/21, picking up six of their ten points against Inter and sealing progress as group winners with a 2-0 home defeat of Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 6.

🔹 Madrid then won both legs against Atalanta in the round of 16 (1-0 a, 3-1 h) before eliminating Liverpool in the quarter-finals (3-1 h, 0-0 a). They lost to eventual champions Chelsea in the semi-finals (1-1 h, 0-2 a)

🔹Having reached the semi-finals or better for eight successive seasons between 2010/11 and 2017/18, Madrid lost in the last 16 against Ajax in 2018/19 and Manchester City the following season. Last season's win against Atalanta made their overall record at this stage W10 L8.