PSG vs Man City: 15 match facts, including PSG's watertight defensive record
The key numbers and pre-match analysis for Wednesday's Champions League meeting in Paris
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Your support makes all the difference.Ahead of the Champions League quarter-final between PSG and Man City we pick out 15 match facts using our free football app - Independent Football Live.
- The only previous encounter between Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain was in December 2008, in the Uefa Cup group stages. It ended 0-0 at the Etihad. It was Man City's only previous competitive game against a French club.
- Only once (in six games) has an English club beaten Paris SG at the Parc des Princes in European competition. It was José Mourinho's Chelsea in September 2004 (3-0).
- The last three Champions League knockout encounters between Ligue 1 and Premier League clubs have all seen the French team eliminate their English counterpart.
- Manchester City have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in their history. They have won only one of their six games in the Champions League knockout stages (D1 L4).
- Manchester City have kept fewer clean sheets than any other of the 2015/16 quarter-finalists in this season's Champions League (1 in 8 games).
- No team has scored more goals than Manchester City in the final 15 minutes of games in the Champions League this season (6).
- Manchester City have picked up six cards in eight games (all yellows), the lowest total of any team in the Champions League this season.
- Paris SG have been eliminated in the quarter finals in each of the last three campaigns. Their last (and only) Champions League semi-final appearance to date was in 1994/95.
- Paris SG have lost only one of their last 38 home games in European competition (W25 D12), that was against Barcelona in April 2015 (1-3).
- Paris SG have the joint-best defensive record in this season's Champions League (3 goals conceded in 8 games, level with Atlético & Real Madrid). PSG are also the only team yet to concede a goal in the second-half of a Champions League game in 2015/16.
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored in each of his last four Champions League games. Only twice before has he gone five in a row in the competition.
- Kevin Trapp has made more saves in this season's Champions League than any other goalkeeper among the remaining quarter-finalists (30 saves out of 33 shots on target faced).
- Thiago Motta has completed 171 more passes than any other player in this season's Champions League.
- If they play, it will be David Luiz and Thiago Silva's 50th appearance in the Champions League. Bacary Sagna could also reach that milestone in this game.
- Sergio Aguero has scored 16 goals in his last 18 Champions League starts.
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