Nice - Paris
A gala match in numbers
On Friday, Le Gym welcome Paris SG, current French Champions, to the Allianz Riviera (kick-off at 8.45pm). Here are a few stats before this gala match that will kick off Matchday 10 of L1.
→ OGC Nice have only lost two of the last 18 home games in the top flight (11 wins and five draws): against Caen on 20 April (0-1) and Marseille on 28 August (1-2).
→ Paris Saint-Germain have won six of their last seven league matches, the only exception being the defeat against Reims on 25 September at the Parc des Princes (0-2).
→ Nice are the team that have scored the most goals from set pieces this season (8), whilst the club from the capital are one of four teams in L1 not to have conceded a goal from a set piece this season (alongside Bordeaux, Reims and Strasbourg).
→ Paris have kept seven clean sheets in Ligue 1 during the 2019-20 season, more than any other side in the top five European leagues. The Parisians have also scored in all of their last 23 away matches in the league: Only Sedan (32), Rennes (26) and Metz (24) have achieved better in history.
→ Kasper Dolberg has scored two of the last four Nice goals in L1. He has the same record in his first matches in the French top flight, as he boasted in his first five appearances in the Eredivisie (2 goals).
→ Thomas Tuchel’s side have won each of their six games in which Idrissa Gueye has been on the pitch, keeping a clean sheet on each occasion. PSG announced on Wednesday that the Senegalese international would miss the game on Friday due to a hamstring injury.
Photos: A.D. and IconSport