In one of many standout ties of the Champions League final 16, the runaway leaders of the Premier League and Ligue 1, Liverpool and PSG, go head-to-head.
The Reds are in pursuit of a seventh European crown, whereas Les Parisiens are nonetheless craving their first.
Forward of the primary leg in Paris on Wednesday evening, we’ve picked out a number of noteworthy statistical nuggets…
Honours even up to now
Neymar scored the successful purpose for PSG the final time the edges met (Picture credit score: Alamy)
This would be the fifth encounter between Liverpool and PSG, who’ve each crushed one another twice.
The pair first confronted off within the semi-finals of the 1996/97 Cup Winners’ Cup. Ricardo Gomes’ PSG gained the primary leg within the French capital 3-0, earlier than Roy Evans’ Liverpool battled again to win the second leg on Merseyside 2-0, narrowly going out on combination.
It could be 21 years earlier than they met once more, this time within the group stage of the 2018/19 Champions League. An all-German affair within the dugout, with Jurgen Klopp answerable for Liverpool and Thomas Tuchel main PSG, the Reds edged a 3-2 thriller at Anfield and Les Parisiens triumphed 2-1 on the Parc des Princes.
Two busy groups
Arne Slot’s Liverpool have already performed nearly 20 video games in 2025, though they did have the weekend off, having been knocked out of the FA Cup (Picture credit score: Alamy)
Luis Enrique’s PSG come into this conflict in scintillating kind. Unbeaten in 22 video games, a run stretching again to late November, they’ve gained 10 on the spin, reaching that mark with a 4-1 house thrashing of Lille in Ligue 1 on Saturday.
The reigning French champions’ three defeats this season have all come within the Champions League, nonetheless – away to Arsenal and Bayern Munich and at house to Atletico Madrid. As such, they needed to undergo the knockout part play-offs – wherein they thrashed compatriots Brest 10-0 on combination – to succeed in the final 16.
Nevertheless, regardless of having gone straight by way of to this stage of the competitors by topping the league part, Liverpool have performed 16 video games because the flip of the yr to PSG’s 15.
Salah on the right track to outdo himself?
Mo Salah scored on his final Champions League look – additionally towards French opposition, as Liverpool beat Lille 2-1 at Anfield in January (Picture credit score: Alamy)
Regardless of reaching 30 objectives in a marketing campaign for the fifth time as a Liverpool participant, Mo Salah has solely netted thrice within the 2024/25 Champions League – half as many as PSG’s prime scorer within the competitors, Ousmane Dembele.
However the Reds’ ‘Egyptian King’ is nearly within the type of his profession proper now, and he’s on a nine-match streak of scoring and/or aiding, notching 9 objectives and establishing 5.
Have been he to bag his second Champions League knockout brace on Wednesday evening (his first got here for Liverpool towards former membership Roma within the 2017/18 semi-finals), Salah would transfer to inside 12 objectives of his profession finest (44 in 2017/18, his first season with the Reds) with at the very least 12 video games remaining this time period.
