It took an exceptional evening to get this PSG into the semi-final of the Champions League, and it was an exceptional evening. This Tuesday, the capital club defeated FC Barcelona on their home ground in Montjuïc, paying them the same price as in the round of 16 three years ago (4-1). A major performance which is obviously very well read in the figures.
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PSG are the first French club in history to qualify for the next round in the Champions League finals after losing the first leg at home. Overall, no team has achieved this since Tottenham in 2019 against Ajax.
32.7%
FC Barcelona's ball possession percentage in this match is the lowest Opta has recorded in the Champions League since 2003-04, the season from which it began analyzing the competition. The second weakest? It was in the first leg, last week at the Parc des Princes: 41.4%. Luis Enrique had warned: he is the one who best embodies the DNA of Barça.
2
Not only has Ousmane Dembélé scored twice as many goals (2) in two matches and six days against Barça as in 34 matches in all competitions previously (1), but he has also scored as many goals against FC Barcelona in the Champions League final in two matches than with the Catalan club in six seasons (always 2).
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Paris Saint-Germain has reached at least the last four of the Champions League in three of the last five editions: final in 2019-20, semi-final in 2020-21 and therefore semi-final, at least, in 2023- 24. In total, this brings to four the number of Champions League semi-finals for PSG in its history, if we add 1994-95 against AC Milan.
2
Paris Saint-Germain is the only team to have won twice in Barcelona in the final phase of the Champions League (at least since 1992). All places combined, PSG have beaten Barça four times in the final phase (1995, 2017, 2021, 2024): only Bayern Munich (4) has done so much.
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Kylian Mbappé has scored six goals against FC Barcelona in his Champions League career, his favorite victim in the competition. All in four matches played against the Catalans: the two round of 16 of 2021 (a hat-trick in the first leg, a goal in the return) and the two quarter-finals of this season (double in the return).
3
This is the third time in its history that FC Barcelona has been eliminated in the European Cup in a return match at home after winning the first leg away. The two previous times were against Cologne in 1980 (0-1, 4-0) and against another French club, FC Metz, in 1984 (2-4, 4-1).
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No team has eliminated FC Barcelona in the Champions League final phase more than Paris Saint-Germain: three times, in the quarter-finals of the 1994-95 season, in the round of 16 of the 2020-21 season and in the quarter-finals. final of the 2023-24 season.
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When Bradley Barcola started this season with PSG, the capital club never lost: 15 wins, 5 draws. He started on the bench and came on during PSG's four defeats in all competitions this season (against Newcastle, Milan and Barcelona in the Champions League, against Nice in Ligue 1).