Paris is back on the scene.
Eighteen days after its Champions League final lost to Bayern Munich (1-0), PSG is back to normal.
After a controversial postponement due to a few days of vacation, the French champion will open his Ligue 1 season this evening (9 pm) on the lawn of Lens, promoted from Ligue 2. Overview of this first match in Bollaert around of a few figures.
9.
It has been nine years since the Bollaert stadium no longer hosted a Ligue 1 poster. Forced, due to work linked to Euro 2016, to emigrate to the Licorne d'Amiens during his brief return in the elite in 2014-2015, the blood and gold club has not played in Ligue 1 at home since May 21, 2011 and the defeat conceded against Arles-Avignon (1-0).
5.
PSG have gotten used to making a success of their beginnings.
During the last five seasons, the club of the capital has always rhyme 1st day with success.
We have to go back to 2014 and the trip to Reims (2-2) to see Paris give up the 3 points at the opening of the championship.
2.
Usually, Paris is rather successful against the promoted.
On the last ten trips to a former resident of Ligue 2, the capital club has won 7 times and conceded a draw.
Only Reims, winner (3-1) during the 2018-2019 season and Strasbourg (3-1) during the previous exercise, had made the Parisians bite the dust.
204.
If, as is conceivable, Marco Verratti is aligned this Thursday on the lawn of Bollaert, he will equal Thiago Silva and will become, with 204 matches on the clock, the active player who has played the most Ligue 1 games under the Parisian jersey.
16.
This is the number of years that have passed since the last Parisian failure at the Bollaert stadium.
It therefore dates back to the 2003-2004 season.
On March 28, 2004, the capital club lost (1-0) during the 30th day of the championship on a goal from Charles-Edouard Coridon, who will engage in Paris a few months later.
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9.
Times have changed in the balance of power between Paris and Lens.
Between the seasons 1997-1998 and 2005-2006, the PSG was hardly in verve in the North since it was unable to impose itself there during nine seasons, conceding 4 draws and 5 defeats.
A curve that has completely reversed since Paris remains on a series of nine consecutive matches without defeat against Lens in Ligue 1 (5 wins and 4 draws).